Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Polato for Mediamonarchy.com. This is a watershed moment in the history of food.

We've got that story. Plus, does palsy ring a bell?

But first, Chinese lockdown protests intensify in a rare display of defiance.

Again, James, sorry.

I was just saying we have to laugh to not cry.

Chinese lockdown protests intensify in rare display of defiance.

There are tons of crazy videos, and James, it's only seemingly

getting crazier. Protests in China over President Xi Jinping's zero tolerance. COVID-19 measures

have intensified expanding from Beijing in the far western Xinjiang region to several other major

cities, including, of course, everyone's favorite Wuhan, but Shanghai and the eastern city of Nanjing.

The weekend protests followed Friday demonstrations.

It was in the capital of Xinjiang after a deadly fire killed residents who were locked inside, following lockdowns, which have been going down for more than 100 days.

Officials have reported 10 deaths in the fire,

however, citizens are reported probably up to 40.

The protests are a rare display from a typically compliant citizenry

who know that crackdowns on descent have only intensified in the past decade,

as the Wall Street Journal notes, quote,

having protests over the same issue

break out in multiple Chinese cities as almost unheard of outside of nationalist outpourings,

such as anti-Japanese protests. Since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, the ruling party

has allowed some local demonstrations, but it made a priority to prevent nationwide protests.

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