Following a catastrophic fire in the country’s far west, protests against China’s draconian Covid restrictions flared for a third day and expanded to many cities, resulting in hundreds of demonstrators and police engaging in violent altercations in Shanghai on Sunday night. As dissatisfaction grows over President Xi Jinping’s famous zero-Covid policy nearly three years into … Continue reading China Sees an Increase in Protests as Anger Over Xi’s Zero-Covid Policy Grows.