Protests
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Xi Loosens Up. It Won’t Be Enough.
Xi Jinping may be the most powerful autocrat in the world, but he was forced this week to pirouette to…
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China Eases ‘Zero Covid’ Restrictions in Victory for Protesters
Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a…
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China Stems Wave of Protest, but Ripples of Resistance Remain
Students, residents, lawyers and workers are still challenging the country’s Covid-19 restrictions, even though the intensity of the political chants…
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Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper
The protests in China against the government’s draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated…
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The Long Odds Facing China’s Protesters
Popular protests are more easily begun than ever before, but they are more likely to dissipate, too.
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How Iran’s Security Forces Use Ambulances to Suppress Protests
In early October, about a month into Iran’s anti-government protests, a Tehran resident reported seeing at least three protesters being…