{"id":50739,"date":"2022-11-30T21:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/people-want-to-live-views-from-china-on-the-covid-lockdown-protests"},"modified":"2022-11-30T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:28:22","slug":"people-want-to-live-views-from-china-on-the-covid-lockdown-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50739","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People want to live\u2019: views from China on the Covid lockdown protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people give their take on the protests against China\u2019s zero Covid policy<\/p>\n<p>Protests against China\u2019s zero Covid policy have continued in cities including Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu. The protests are a remarkable expression of defiance in a country where this type of public dissent is rare. They often feature people holding up blank sheets of paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/blank-paper-equations-and-alpacas-the-symbols-of-chinas-zero-covid-protests\">symbolising censorship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four people in various Chinese cities spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity to share their views on the protests. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/people-want-to-live-views-from-china-on-the-covid-lockdown-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people give their take on the protests against China\u2019s zero Covid policyProtests against China\u2019s zero Covid policy have continued in cities including Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu. The protests are a remarkable expression of defiance in a country &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3466,"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-50739","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\/50739","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\/3466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50758,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50739\/revisions\/50758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}