International Desk: Protests are spreading across the country, including in universities and Shanghai, against China’s draconian and increasingly expensive zero-covid policy. Hundreds chanting for the resignation of Xi Jinping’s Communist Party. This information was given in a CNN report.
A deadly fire broke out in an apartment block in the country’s far western Xinjiang region on Thursday (November 24), reports said. 10 people were killed and nine injured. Anger is believed to have escalated as the lockdown measures delayed firefighters in reaching victims.
According to videos circulating on social media and eyewitnesses, protests broke out in various Chinese cities and universities in the early hours of Saturday (November 26) and Sunday (November 27). In the videos, people can be heard shouting for the resignation of Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. Protests have also spread in the capital, Beijing.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people lit candles in downtown Shanghai on Saturday to mourn the victims of the Xinjiang fires. In the eastern city of Nanjing, dozens of students from the Communication University of China also gathered to mourn the victims of the Xinjiang fires.
