China's Lockdown Protests

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Thousands take to the streets in China to protest against Xi Jinping’s Covid lockdown restrictions. Adam is joined by John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor and Kerry Allen, the BBC’s China media analyst to discuss what’s happening, what it’s like to be arrested as a journalist in China, and whether state media there is censoring images of maskless fans at the World Cup. I’m a Celebrity campmate and TV presenter Scarlette Douglas reveals what it was like living with Matt Hancock in the jungle. This episode of Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Chris Flynn with Madeleine Drury, Miranda Slade and Emma Jacobs. The technical producer was Ben Andrews and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.6	Hello, big news in China, where the government's coming under increasing pressure from a series
0:09.4	of protests about how it's been handling COVID, and saying series of protests seems to
0:14.7	kind of underestimate just how widespread they are.
0:18.6	And of course, China's COVID policy has been dominated by this idea of zero COVID,
0:23.7	and it's become incredibly associated with Xi Jinping, the leader of China and the leader
0:29.0	of the Chinese Communist Party, who has just changed the rules that would limit how long
0:34.2	he could be in power.
0:36.2	So many things to talk about, and so many great people at the BBC who are able to talk
0:41.2	about them.
0:42.2	So that's what we're going to spend most of this episode of newscast, discussing.
0:45.6	Newscast.
0:46.6	Newscast from the BBC.
0:48.3	We will deliver.
0:49.3	We will deliver.
0:50.3	We will deliver.
0:51.3	Be on the back better.
0:52.3	Blah, blah, blah.
0:53.3	Green economy.
0:54.3	Blah, blah, blah.
0:55.3	I've absolutely apologized for using the word scumbag.
0:58.5	Calm down.
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