First Thing: Shanghai protests over zero-Covid policy spark clashes

A man is arrested as people gather on a street in Shanghai on 27 November. Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

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A wave of civil disobedience – to degrees unseen in mainland China through the past decade – is taking root as frustration mounts over Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy persisting almost three years into the pandemic.