{"id":50639,"date":"2022-11-28T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-zero-covid-police-shanghai-protests"},"modified":"2022-11-29T00:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:19:50","slug":"police-tighten-security-in-shanghai-after-two-nights-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50639","title":{"rendered":"Chinese police out in force in attempt to deter Covid lockdown protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barriers erected on street where demonstrations have been held against rigid  coronavirus policies<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police have launched a show of force across the country in an effort to head off further protests against the government\u2019s rigid zero-Covid policies and tackle what have become the most extraordinary acts of civil disobedience in the country for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of police cars lined the streets around a central Beijing subway station and patrolled surrounding blocks on Monday evening, while uniformed and plain-clothed officers stood guard at station exits and stopped passersby for questioning. Hours after the scheduled start of a protest organised via encrypted messaging apps there were few apparent participants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-zero-covid-police-shanghai-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barriers erected on street where demonstrations have been held against rigid  coronavirus policiesChinese police have launched a show of force across the country in an effort to head off further protests against the government\u2019s rigid zero-Covid polici&#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":[41,50,80,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest","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\/50639","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=50639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50645,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50639\/revisions\/50645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}