Cina COVID protests mark 'biggest act of resistance' in decades

 

Protests over China's zero-COVID strategy spread in major cities over the weekend, with some demonstrators going so far as to urge President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party to step down -- an act of defiance rarely seen on the mainland since the much larger and more intense Tiananmen Square movement of 1989.
 
From Nanjing to Shanghai and Beijing, students from dozens of universities came out to protest, holding up blank pieces of paper to symbolize their lack of freedom of expression. Residents in major cities also took to the streets in significant numbers to vent their anger.