Unrest is growing in China over strict COVID-19 lockdown measures. Protests have broken out in several parts of the country, including in the Xinjiang region, where many people have been barred from leaving their homes for more than three months. Protests in the regional capital Urumqi came after an apartment block fire killed ten people. Some residents say the restrictions on movement hampered rescue efforts. Growing frustration over the lockdowns almost three years after the pandemic broke out is increasingly putting Beijing's 'Zero-Covid' policy under pressure.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst The Chinese COVID policy is, as everything in China, based on the good for the community and not for the individual. Add to this the color code digital permits, which are daily and totally disastrous for citizens which feel they are more subjects, controlled, anxious, nervous, without enough information or real access to news. The pressure is climbing so riots and protests are exploding all around the country, mostly after the fire incident in Urumqi where people died as their building was locked out. This is happening around with other incidents. How is the government going to react? It seems by now they are easing some restrictions and allowing people to protest maybe to allow some pressure to go down. But the frustration is going towards the politics and the intrusive control of the government in the individual. Moreover, COVID continues despite these lockdowns, the cases are rising and solutions are elusive. How is this going to develop? Will it be like the match which burns a forest or just some riots easily "pacified" by the heavy hand of the Chinese police? We will see.