{"id":50927,"date":"2022-12-06T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/beijing-drops-some-covid-tests-as-capital-readies-itself-for-life-again"},"modified":"2022-12-06T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:31:20","slug":"beijing-drops-some-covid-tests-as-capital-readies-itself-for-life-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50927","title":{"rendered":"Chinese students protest as university locks down over one Covid case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage shows large protest at Nanjing Tech University, as rules persist despite steps to ease zero-Covid policy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/readers-in-china-on-wave-of-protests\">\u2018Now I see it\u2019s not just me who\u2019s angry\u2019: readers in China on wave of protests<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students at a university in eastern China have staged a protest against a Covid lockdown as many in the country remain under some form of restrictions despite government steps to ease its zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whyyoutouzhele\/status\/1599877514255425536\">Twitter<\/a> on Tuesday show large numbers of students protesting at Nanjing Tech University on Monday night, as they were placed under lockdown after one positive case was found. The Guardian phoned the university for confirmation but calls went unanswered. The posts had been geolocated by AFP and Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/06\/beijing-drops-some-covid-tests-as-capital-readies-itself-for-life-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage shows large protest at Nanjing Tech University, as rules persist despite steps to ease zero-Covid policy\u2018Now I see it\u2019s not just me who\u2019s angry\u2019: readers in China on wave of protestsStudents at a university in eastern China have staged a protes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,1066,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science","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\/50927","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50938,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50927\/revisions\/50938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}