{"id":49306,"date":"2022-10-13T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/shanghai-covid-restrictions-fuel-fears-of-another-lockdown"},"modified":"2022-10-13T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:07:04","slug":"shanghai-covid-restrictions-fuel-fears-of-another-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49306","title":{"rendered":"Anti-CCP protest and lockdown fears fuel China tensions before congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Images show banners emblazoned with protest messages hanging from overpass on major road in Beijing<\/p>\n<p>A rare protest against the Communist party in Beijing and fears over renewed Covid restrictions across Shanghai are stoking political tensions just days before President Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term in power in a key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/zero-covid-measures-cause-chaos-as-china-prepares-for-beijing-summit\">meeting on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, at least half a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billbirtles\/status\/1580441611699335169\">photos and videos<\/a> emerged on social media, showing two banners emblazoned with protest messages hanging from an overpass of a major thoroughfare in the north-west corner of the Chinese capital. The photos show plumes of smoke billowing from the bridge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/shanghai-covid-restrictions-fuel-fears-of-another-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images show banners emblazoned with protest messages hanging from overpass on major road in BeijingA rare protest against the Communist party in Beijing and fears over renewed Covid restrictions across Shanghai are stoking political tensions just days &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions\/49318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}