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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Residents of China’s production hub in Guangzhou clashed with white police dressed in hazelnut clothing on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, online videos showed, the latest in a series of protests that intensified over the weekend. due to strict restrictions. COVID-19 lockdowns.
The clashes, which are stifling protests in Shanghai, Beijing and elsewhere, erupted as China records a record number of COVID-19 cases and fitness officials, in addition to the southern region around Guangzhou, announced a slight relaxation of restrictions.
The wave of civil disobedience in mainland China since the Tiananmen protests in 1989 comes as its economy collapses after decades of breakneck growth.
This era of prosperity is central to the social contract between the Communist Party and a population whose freedoms have been drastically curtailed since President Xi Jinping took power a decade ago.
In a video posted on Twitter, dozens of police dressed in all-white pandemic clothing, holding shields over their heads, in complex formation over what appeared to be demolished blocking barriers as objects flew toward them.
Police officers were later seen escorting a line of other handcuffed people to an unknown location.
Another video clip showed other people throwing objects at police, while a third showed a tear gas canister landing amid a small crowd on a narrow street, with other people running to escape the gases.
Reuters verified that the videos were filmed in Guangzhou’s Haizhu district, scene of COVID-related riots two weeks ago, but it may not know when the videos were taken or the exact series of events and what triggered the clashes.
Social media posts said the clashes took place Tuesday night and stemmed from a dispute over the blocking edges.
The government of Guangzhou, a city hard-hit by the latest wave of infections, did not respond to a request for comment.
China Dissent Monitor, run by Freedom House, funded by the U. S. government. The U. S. Department of Health said at least 27 protests took place in China between Saturday and Monday. The Australian tank ASPI estimated 43 protests in 22 cities.
Border relief
Home to many migrant factory workers, Guangzhou is a sprawling port city north of Hong Kong in Guangdong province, where the government announced late Tuesday that it would allow close contacts of COVID-19 cases to quarantine at home rather than be forced to move to shelters.
The resolution broke with the same previous practice under China’s 0 COVID policy.
In Zengzhou, home to a giant Foxconn factory that makes Apple iPhones that has been the scene of arduous labor unrest over COVID-19, officials announced the “orderly” resumption of business, adding supermarkets, gyms and restaurants.
However, they also unveiled a long list of buildings that would remain under lock and key.
Hours before the announcements, national fitness officials said Tuesday that China will address “urgent concerns” raised by the public and that COVID-19 regulations will be implemented more flexibly, depending on situations in each region.
But while the easing of some measures appears to be an attempt to appease the public, the government has also begun looking for those who took part in the recent protests.
“The police came to my front door to ask me about all this and make me fill out a written file,” a Beijing resident who declined to be known on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, told Reuters.
Another resident said friends who had posted videos of protests on social media were taken to the police station and asked to sign a pledge that they “would not do this again. “
It’s unclear how the government knew the other people they wanted to interview, or how many of those other people they contacted.
The Beijing Public Security Bureau had no comment.
On Wednesday, several police cars and workers’ security forces were parked on a bridge in eastern Beijing where a protest had taken position 3 days earlier.
‘Hostile forces’
In a message that did not address the protests, the Communist Party’s most sensible police framework said last Tuesday that China would crack down on “infiltration and sabotage activities through hostile forces. “
The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission also said “illegal and corrupt acts disturbing social order” would be tolerated.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has indicated that rights and freedoms must be exercised within the framework of the law.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that protesters in China will not be injured.
COVID-19 has spread even as China has largely alienated from the world and required significant sacrifices from millions of people to meet relentless testing and prolonged isolation, three years after the pandemic.
While the number of infections and deaths is low by global standards, analysts say reopening before vaccination rates can lead to widespread illness and death and overwhelm hospitals.
The shutdowns have hit the economy, disrupting global chains and disrupting money markets.
Wednesday’s knowledge showed China’s production and activity for November 2022 had the lowest readings since Shanghai’s two-month shutdown began in April 2022.
Chinese stocks held steady as markets weighed on endemic economic weakness as opposed to hopes that public tension could push China to reopen.
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has signaled an imaginable downward revision of China’s expansion forecasts.
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