{"id":50619,"date":"2022-11-28T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:08:27","slug":"clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50619","title":{"rendered":"Clashes in Shanghai as protests over zero-Covid policy grip China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan see demonstrations as anger over Xi Jinping\u2019s strict Covid policies builds, in a test for the Communist party<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China\u2019s stringent Covid restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities, in the biggest test for president Xi Jinping since he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term\">secured a historic third term in power.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wave of civil disobedience is unprecedented in mainland China in the past decade, as frustration mounts over Xi\u2019s signature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/rumours-of-zero-covid-easing-spread-in-china-amid-anger-at-restrictions\">zero-Covid policy<\/a> nearly three years into the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/clashes-in-shanghai-as-protests-over-zero-covid-policy-grip-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan see demonstrations as anger over Xi Jinping\u2019s strict Covid policies builds, in a test for the Communist partyHundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China\u2019s stringent Covid restrictions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3367,"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":[50,1066,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50619","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\/3367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50619\/revisions\/50620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}