Fear and fury in China – what does President Xi do now?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky News' Asia correspondent Helen-Ann Smith, who has witnessed protests in Shanghai. Plus, Cindy Yu, host of The Spectator's Chinese Whispers podcast, on the threat continued unrest poses to China's leader, Xi Jinping.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Junior Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Digital Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:00.1 | Where exactly are you at the moment? |
| 1:02.3 | I'm in a hotel room in Shanghai where it just doesn't feel that safe |
| 1:06.3 | to spend a bunch of time out on the street. |
| 1:09.8 | Well, that's Helen Ann Smith, Sky's Asia correspondent. |
| 1:13.0 | She's currently in Shanghai reporting on the protests breaking out there and across the country. |
| 1:20.9 | The reason? Well, China has some of the tightest COVID rules on the planet. |
| 1:25.3 | You need a negative test to do pretty much anything, visiting the shops, |
| 1:28.7 | parks, playgrounds and offices. And just a handful of cases lead to immediate lockdown. All of this |
| 1:35.5 | whilst the World Cup is going on. And the football daft Chinese are glued to their TVs every day, |
| 1:42.0 | wondering how on earth hundreds of thousands of fans from around the world |
| 1:45.3 | can gather without masks. Or rather, they would be wondering, whether the Chinese state is not |
| 1:51.4 | actively censoring shots of the maskless crowds. And now frustrations are boiling over after |
| 1:57.6 | 10 people were killed in a fire in the west of China. The deaths blamed in part on the |
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