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Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, November 28.

And this is your FT News Briefing.

Protests in China pose the biggest challenge to the Communist Party

since the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

Protests in Iran continue, but many workers and businesses are reluctant to join in.

And the EU is struggling with another influx of refugees.

Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Protests in China's largest city escalated yesterday.

Police in Shanghai struggled to disperse large crowds who gathered in the streets to vent their

anger at the government's strict anti-COVID policies.

Our correspondents call it the most brazen challenge to the Communist Party's authority in

decades. The FT's Tom Hale says it started Saturday evening and it began as a vigil for victims

of a fire at the other end of the country, the far west city of Arumchi, and then it turned into

a protest against zero-COVID policies, which were partly blamed for the deaths in this fire

in Arumchi because the perception online was that the city was locked down,

limited people's ability to leave the building.

So this has morphed into broader protests around the country.

Tom, what did you see in Shanghai?

It's difficult to describe it as a protest. What I observed was more large groups of people,

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