In a press briefing today, Chinese authorities blamed frustrations at its COVID-zero policy on poor local management. Meanwhile, police are moving to identify people who attended the protests.
A rally of several hundred people showed up last night on the campus of Columbia University in solidarity with protesters in China against COVID-zero rules.
Freelance journalist Simon Leplâtre, who is based in Shanghai, talks about the brewing frustrations that erupted into anti-COVID-zero protests this past weekend.
Professor William Hurst of Cambridge University discusses the recent protests against COVID zero that have mushroomed up all over China, and how Xi Jinping might react.
The Taiwanese party that favors closer ties to Beijing just won 13 of the 21 contested city mayor and county chief seats in Taiwan. The author, who recently visited Taiwan, muses on the future of this self-governed island.
Popular anger at the Chinese government’s COVID-zero policies has not yet subsided. The Chinese Communist Party is already acting to suppress dissent. China has not been this tense in decades.
The results from Taiwan’s local elections on Saturday are in, and the winner is clear: Taiwan’s democracy, writes Chris Horton from Taipei. But what do this year’s results mean for the 2024 presidential election?
Protests against COVID restrictions have broken out in major cities all over China.
Frustration is building as COVID lockdowns and testing requirements intensify across China.