Welcome to a Monday Night edition of Tisky Sour.

Some big stories tonight. We're talking about the protest wave that has erupted across China

and a rebellion within the Conservative Party. Not a dramatic,

not as a rebellion in China, but still consequential for us at least. We're also talking

about Matt Hancock and why just stop oil are right to guide you through those stories.

I'm joined by Aaron Bistani, how you doing, Aaron?

Oh, well, Michael, two authoritarian regimes facing challenges.

That of Rishi Sunak and that of Xi Jinping.

Protests have erupted across China against the zero COVID policies which have been in place

across the country for more than two years. The immediate spark for this wave was an

apartment fire in Arumchi in the Xinjiang region of China. That fire killed at least 10 people

and lockdown measures which were in place in the city have been blamed for failings in the rescue

effort. Now, these are protests in Shanghai which earlier this year was itself subject to a

severe citywide lockdown. Now, people there were chanting down with the Chinese Communist Party

down with Xi Jinping, lift lockdown for Xinjiang, lift lockdown for all of China. They're also singing

the International. In Beijing meanwhile, students have been protesting, holding up pieces of

blank white paper that's as a protest against censorship. To find out more about this wave of

protests, I spoke earlier to Yuan Yang. The Financial Times is Europe China correspondent.

I began by asking her to lay out the recent developments that prompted this wave of protests.

I think a few things have combined to cause this current wave. Firstly, there's the migrant workers

who were at the Apple Assembly plant in Jiangzhou in central China. That's the biggest factory that

makes iPhones in the world. There are thousands of workers who were stuck there under this

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