Shanghai authorities put up barriers around a city center area where hundreds of people protested over the weekend against heavy COVID measures, one of several demonstrations that have flared across the country
From the streets of Shanghai and Beijing to dozens of university campuses, protesters made a show of civil disobedience unprecedented since leader Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago, overseeing the quashing of dissent and setting up an extensive high-tech social surveillance system.
There was no sign of new protests on Monday in Beijing or Shanghai. The Public Security Bureau did not immediately respond to a request for comments. The zero-COVID policy has kept China's official death toll in the thousands, compared with more than a million in the United States, but it has come at the cost of confining many millions to long spells at home and extensive disruption and damage to the world's second-largest economy.
The protests roiled global markets on Monday, sending oil prices lower and the dollar higher, with Chinese stocksChinese state media did not mention the protests, instead urging citizens in editorials to stick to COVID rules. Many analysts say China is unlikely to reopen before March or April, and needs an effective vaccination campaign before doing so.
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