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Anti-Lockdown Protests Intensify In China As COVID Cases Hit Record High

Rare public protests opposing China's stringent Covid lockdowns intensified in the country, while coronavirus cases continue to rise sharply with close to 40,000 infections reported on Sunday. Read on for details:

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Xi’s iron grip on his country is stopping the Covid U-turn it so desperately needs

As the rest of the world breaks free of the virus, China has doubled down on draconian measures

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Britain’s feeble response to China’s assault on human rights

Xi Jinping’s repressive policy on dissent in the former colony is starting to resemble a vendetta as Jimmy Lai faces a new trial

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Anti-Covid protests in China triggered by deadly fire

Police used pepper spray to stop around 300 protesters who had gathered in Shanghai

Wales Online

Investors seen heading north, leaving SE Asia behind

The nascent revival in North Asian equities is being touted as the start of a potential bull run as bets for China’s gradual reopening as well as the bottoming out of the chip industry intensify.

Bangkok Post

AstraZeneca’s CEO on Covid: ‘We Just Have to Adjust to it’

AstraZeneca’s Chief Executive Officer, Sir Pascal Soriot, told Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview that Covid-19 is not over “and we just have to adjust to it like we live with the flu.” “Most people who get it basically get sick for a few days and do not need to be…

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Anti-lockdown protests spread in China as anger rises over zero-Covid strategy

Beijing students shout ‘freedom will prevail’, as Urumqi fire prompts levels of disobedience unprecedented in Xi era

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Attention turns to presidential poll after Taiwan ruling party thrashing

Attention is turning to Taiwan's next presidential election in 2024 after the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was thrashed at local elections on Saturday, with President Tsai Ing-wen's move to focus on China backfiring with voters.

Reuters

Clashes in Shanghai as COVID protests flare across China

Hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai on Sunday night as protests over China's stringent COVID restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities in the wake of a deadly fire in the country's far west.

Reuters

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

The climate conference delivered a historic deal on loss and damage — but little else

Salon

Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson claims key Taiwan poll win

Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson declared victory in the race to be mayor of Taiwan’s capital, as the ruling party suffered a resounding defeat in island-wide local elections a little more than a year before a new president is chosen.

Tribune News Service

China reports fourth straight daily record of new COVID cases

China reported its fourth straight daily record of 39,791 new COVID-19 infections on Nov. 26, of which 3,709 were symptomatic and 36,082 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday.

Reuters

Apec, China reopening could boost growth to 4%

Thailand's economy is expected to grow by 3-4% next year, growth supported by the tourism industry and as an outcome of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, a seminar was told.

Bangkok Post

Conflict of interest: have low cash rates created the ‘everything bubble’?

In new book The Price of Time, economist Edward Chancellor explores the role central banks have played in the snowballing challenges of the past quarter century

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Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson claims win in key Taiwan race

The Guardian - UK

Gordon Brown says China must pay into climate fund for poor countries

Former prime minister says US and Europe will pay biggest share of loss and damage fund, but China must too

WEKU

Protesters are so upset with China's COVID rules, some are openly saying Xi should go

Residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against Urumqi's draconian "zero-COVID" lockdown after an apartment fire killed 10.

Axios

Chinese protesters, fed up with COVID restrictions, call for Xi Jinping's resignation

Protesters called for Xi to "step down" while still others shouted, "don't want dictatorship, want democracy!"

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WEKU

Taiwan's president resigns as party leader after election losses

Voters in Taiwan overwhelmingly chose the opposition Nationalist party in several major races across the self-ruled island in an election in which threats from China took a backseat to local issues.

Axios

China's COVID storm

China reported a record number of infections this week, amid lockdowns and mass testing that are fueling unrest.

The Independent UK

Xinjiang loosens some restrictions after lockdown protests

Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have opened up some neighborhoods in the capital of Urumqi after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city’s draconian “zero-COVID” lockdown that had lasted more than three months

Reuters

Vatican says China violated pact on bishops, expresses regret

The Vatican on Saturday accused Chinese authorities of violating a bilateral pact on the appointment of bishops by installing one in a diocese not recognised by the Holy See.

Evening Standard

Urumqi: Covid lockdown protests in China break out after fire kills 10

Protests have broken out in western China after a fire killed 10 people amid nationwide unrest over the country’s strict Covid lockdown rules.

Al Jazeera

China: Protests erupt over COVID curbs after deadly fire

Urumqi residents angered after blaze killed 10 in residential building under lockdown due to China’s zero-COVID policy.

The Times of India

Huge Covid protests erupt in China's Xinjiang after deadly fire

Crowds shouting at hazmat-suited guards after a deadly fire triggered anger over their prolonged Covid-19 lockdown as nationwide infections set another record.

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