After reports emerged of Pyongyang conducting its 7th Nuclear test, the spotlight has fallen on China once again on whether the country would maintain friendly ties with the country under all circumstances as Beijing has earlier voiced opposition to the North Korea's missile launch.
China wants to use a variety of unmanned systems and unmanned weapons to undertake highly autonomous integrated operations in order to build a world-class army, reported Indo-Pacific Center for Strategic Communications (IPCSC).
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial center, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule.
Hundreds of protestors demonstrated in cities across China against President Xi Jinping's zero-Covid strategy, with some of them even calling for his removal. "Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!" CNN quoted some people as yelling during a protest in the financial hub of Shang
Several videos circulating on social media have shown a crowd chanting the slogan "Communist Party step down, Down with Xi Jinping" in unison over a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region that has unleashed excessive public outrage.
The public outrage against CCP rule and torturous zero-covid policy has been observed across several cities of China including Beijing and Shanghai which are the trade hubs of the country. People in Xinjiang, as well as Lhasa, were also seen, according to several videos circulating on social
"We continue to stand up and support the right of peaceful protest. And I think we're going to watch this closely, and we'll see where things go," the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said during the press briefing.
Amid ongoing protests across China, the outcries of the youngsters in the country have come to light as they are demanding to be freed from not only the strict covid lockdowns Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) surveillance of people in China.
Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China's severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into the third day and spread to several other cities.
Uyghur community in Vienna, Austria organised a demonstration in front of the Embassy of China on Monday to protest against the death of innocent Uyghurs in the fire incident in Urumqi, Xinjiang.
Chinese internet users and government censors are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game to control the narrative around the country's anti- "zero COVID" protests, reported Al Jazeera.