{"id":50914,"date":"2022-12-06T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/readers-in-china-on-wave-of-protests"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:00:06","slug":"now-i-see-its-not-just-me-whos-angry-readers-in-china-on-wave-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50914","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Now I see it\u2019s not just me who\u2019s angry\u2019: readers in China on wave of protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of people have contacted the Guardian to share their reaction to protests against zero-Covid policy<\/p>\n<p>People living in China have expressed feelings of shock at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/nov\/28\/protests-erupt-in-china-over-strict-zero-covid-measures-in-pictures\">eruption of protests<\/a> last week, with hopes that they continue, mixed with reservations about how successful they can be expected to be in challenging the one-party system.<\/p>\n<p>The protests have led to a shift in China\u2019s zero-Covid policy, with the government staging an abrupt turnaround to emphasise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/05\/covid-is-weakening-china-state-media-claims-as-major-cities-lift-lockdowns\">virus\u2019s reduced severity<\/a> as well as pushing vaccination and personal mitigation measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/readers-in-china-on-wave-of-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of people have contacted the Guardian to share their reaction to protests against zero-Covid policyPeople living in China have expressed feelings of shock at the eruption of protests last week, with hopes that they continue, mixed with reservati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1674,"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":[41,50,1066,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-protest","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\/50914","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\/1674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions\/50915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}