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The 2023 Chinese healthcare reform protests were a series of simultaneous pensioner protests in the months that followed China's 2022 COVID-19 protests and the subsequent end of China's zero-COVID policies. On 15 February 2023, simultaneous mass protests of mostly elderly pensioners broke out in both Wuhan and Dalian.
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Virologist Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post ...
A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese government to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, the government of China under CCP general secretary Xi Jinping 's administration pursued a zero-COVID strategy to prevent the domestic spread of COVID-19 [1] until December 7, 2022. [2] Aspects of the response have been controversial, with the zero-COVID approach being praised [3] [4] and the ...
A resident pulls away a mask during COVID test in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. In a sharp reversal, China has announced a series of measures rolling back some of the most draconian anti-COVID ...
In a rare display of defiance, protests have erupted across China over the government’s so-called zero-COVID policy. ... And the Chinese health care system is somewhat imperfect and uneven ...
One year after protests shook China, participants ponder the meaning of the brief flare of defiance. HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG. November 27, 2023 at 8:07 PM. BEIJING (AP) — A year ago, Li ...
Tens of thousands of protests occur each year. National level protests are less common. Notable protests include the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the April 1999 demonstration by Falun Gong practitioners at Zhongnanhai, the 2008 Tibetan unrest, the July 2009 Ürümqi riots, and the 2022 COVID-19 protests.