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China Tightens Security After Mass Protests Over CCP’s Draconian COVID Policies

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China Tightens Security After Mass Protests Over CCP’s Draconian COVID Policies
Protesters shout slogans during a protest against China's strict zero-COVID measures, in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Dorothy Li
11/28/2022|Updated: 11/30/2022
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The Chinese regime tightened security in some cities in the aftermath of major protests that flared across the country over the weekend. The protests were a rare show of defiance against Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy, which has uprooted daily life for the past three years.

Police on Nov. 28 stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing, after crowds there and in other Chinese cities took to the streets in the largest public display of opposition to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in decades.

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