Since China abandoned its zero-COVID policy, its domestic challenges have increased, youth unemployment is high, the economy is slowing down, and COVID infections and deaths have accelerated.
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.
China's Guangzhou has been facing severe protests by residents due to extreme zero-covid measures the sprawling port city is a major trading hub of China but is now under a livelihood crisis due to lockdowns.
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 16 (ANI): While Pakistan lifted all its COVID-19-related restrictions in March this year, its army is enforcing China's zero-COVID restrictions at Belt and Road Initiative power plant in Karachi.
Beijing [China], August 23 (ANI): Authorities in Guangxi Province have apparently relented in the face of a mass protest orchestrated by residents disgruntled over a month of strict "zero-COVID" restrictions.