Unprecedented protests across China over “zero-Covid” policy

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Thousands of people in China, who are angry at the country's rigid "zero-Covid" policy, have taken to the streets and are demanding to be freed from Covid testing and lockdowns. CNN Senior International Correspondent Ivan Watson is in Hong Kong and CNN's Selina Wang is in Beijing with the latest. And just over two weeks after the quadruple homicide of college students in Idaho, police have not found a suspect as students return to campus for classes. Perspective from former NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence & Counterterrorism John Miller, who is now CNN's Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Protests across China tonight, that is rare all by itself, what has been unthinkable until
0:08.0	this moment or the calls for the leader of the country Xi Jinping to step down.
0:13.0	John Berman here in Foranterson, anger at the country's rigid zero-COVID policy and
0:18.1	questions about whether it delayed response for a fire in one city that killed 10 people
0:23.3	has unleashed a wider ray of resentments with some calling for democracy and freedom.
0:28.9	This is a map of where CNN has confirmed protests, at least 16 locations nationwide, including
0:34.2	the capital Beijing as well as Shanghai.
0:37.2	And of course, it is happening in a country of more than 1 billion people whose fates,
0:41.2	both politically and financially, have a huge impact on the US and the entire world.
0:47.2	We have two live reports tonight, our senior international correspondent Ivan Watson in
0:51.0	Hong Kong and CNN Selena Wang in Beijing.
0:54.0	I want to start with Ivan Watson, Ivan, give us the latest.
0:58.2	John, for three years now, the Chinese government has been trying to snuff out the COVID-19 virus.
1:04.8	It has put immense psychological, emotional and financial pressure on the country's population
1:12.0	and over the weekend, some of that pressure finally snapped.
1:19.8	Anger on the streets of Chinese cities.
1:23.6	The biggest nationwide display of discontent this tightly controlled country has seen in
1:28.7	a generation.
1:30.5	Protesters pushing back against police and the government's zero COVID policy.
1:36.3	The unrest triggered by a deadly fire in a roomchi in China's western Xinjiang region
1:41.5	last Thursday.
1:43.5	Videos emerge of firehoses barely reaching the blaze, which killed at least 10 people.
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