{"id":50718,"date":"2022-11-30T17:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/us-and-canada-urge-china-not-to-harm-zero-covid-protesters-amid-calls-for-crackdown"},"modified":"2022-12-01T06:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:12:28","slug":"us-and-canada-urge-china-not-to-harm-zero-covid-protesters-amid-new-clashes-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50718","title":{"rendered":"Covid restrictions lifted in Guangzhou and Chongqing after China protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcements ordered the removal of \u2018control orders\u2019 and to designate areas as low risk<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have abruptly lifted Covid restrictions in the Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Chongqing, where protesters scuffled with police on Tuesday night, as police searched for demonstrators in other cities and the country\u2019s top security body called for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/china-targets-older-people-in-covid-19-vaccination-drive\">crackdown on \u201chostile forces\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After days of extraordinary protests in the country that also prompted international demonstrations in solidarity, the US and Canada urged China not to harm or intimidate protesters opposing Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/us-and-canada-urge-china-not-to-harm-zero-covid-protesters-amid-calls-for-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcements ordered the removal of \u2018control orders\u2019 and to designate areas as low riskAuthorities have abruptly lifted Covid restrictions in the Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Chongqing, where protesters scuffled with police on Tuesday night, as pol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,244,50,1066,914,80,45,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-protest","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/50718","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50718\/revisions\/50761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}