White House issues statement saying “everyone has the right to peacefully protest. ... This includes in the PRC,” after demonstrations intensified this weekend against China’s zero-Covid policy.
A BBC journalist, Ed Lawrence, was arrested Sunday while covering the protests in Shanghai and said he was beaten and kicked by police during his arrest, then held for several hours before being released. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian disputed the BBC’s version of events, saying Lawrence did not identify himself as a journalist before his arrest.
China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” measures, which include strict lockdowns and isolation periods and mass testing, make it an outlier among the world’s major economies, causing growing public frustration and economic pain. Though officialsearlier this month, they are struggling to ease the burden without setting off a major exit wave.
The Chinese government argues its pandemic strategy has saved lives and is necessary to protect the fragile health care system from being overwhelmed. The latest deaths bring China’s official toll to more than 5,000, compared with
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