{"id":263632,"date":"2022-11-27T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/27\/what-sparked-massive-protests-across-chinese-cities-5-points\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:45:00","slug":"what-sparked-massive-protests-across-chinese-cities-5-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/27\/what-sparked-massive-protests-across-chinese-cities-5-points\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sparked Massive Protests Across Chinese Cities: 5 Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"&quot;Down With Xi&quot;: Protest Over Covid Curbs Spreads As China Fire Kills 10\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&quot;Down With Xi&quot;: Protest Over Covid Curbs Spreads As China Fire Kills 10\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Down With Xi&quot;: Protest Over Covid Curbs Spreads As China Fire Kills 10\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/32ab0hfo_china-covid-protest_625x300_27_November_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-27T17:45:32+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=668236&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/27112022_n_ChinaProtestVT_131412_104420_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T1M24S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/32ab0hfo_china-covid-protest_625x300_27_November_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=668236&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">China Covid protests: Police officers confront a man as they block Wulumuqi street in Shanghai<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHundreds gathered in China&#8217;s capital Beijing and other cities to protest against the stringent Covid curbs, which include snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines, and mass testing campaigns. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"cheat__ttl\">Here are 5 points on this big story:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cheat-wrp\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>China has stuck with it&#8217;s zero-Covid policy even as much of the world has lifted most restrictions. The lockdowns and lengthy quarantines in China have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/china-building-fire-that-killed-10-sparks-questions-on-zero-covid-policy-3556802\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resulted in public frustration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>China reported 39,506 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a record high but small compared to caseloads in the West at the height of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Several high-profile cases in which emergency services have been allegedly slowed down by Covid lockdowns, leading to deaths, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/china-covid-19-protests-live-updates-hundreds-take-to-streets-in-beijing-shanghai-3557442\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">catalysed public opposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A deadly fire on Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang region, has become a fresh catalyst for public anger, with many blaming lengthy Covid lockdowns for hampering rescue efforts. Ten people were killed in the fire.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Another factor that has added fuel to the protests is the country&#8217;s struggling economy. China&#8217;s economy suffered a broad slowdown in October as factory output grew more slowly than expected and retail sales fell for the first time in five months.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span class=\"cmt_btnOut\"><span class=\"cmt_btn\"><a class=\"btn_bm cmt-ac cmt-dn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/javascript:void(0);\"><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-cnt\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-txt\">Post a comment <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/china-covid-protests-what-sparked-massive-protests-across-chinese-cities-5-points-3557710\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] China Covid protests: Police officers confront a man as they block Wulumuqi street in Shanghai New Delhi: Hundreds gathered in China&#8217;s capital Beijing and other cities to protest against the stringent Covid curbs, which include snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines, and mass testing campaigns. Here are 5 points on this big story: China has stuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[124676,316171,316172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}