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In more than a dozen interviews, young people explained how the events of the past few days became what one called a “tipping point.”

Police in major cities across China, including Beijing and Shanghai, have increased efforts to crackdown on zero-Covid protests. According to footage circulating on social media, police have made at least one arrest. Police are patrolling areas where protests began over the weekend, installing security barriers and checking personal phones for signs of civil disobedience. Widespread anger sparked protests over the weekend following China's decision to continue with the zero-Covid policy, introducing strict lockdowns in spite of economic consequences 

Veterans of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests see echoes in mainland’s anti-Covid anger, but fear a similar outcome
Jack*, a Hongkonger, used to have a grim view of mainland Chinese people, but the that exploded across China last weekend changed his view.
“Before, I thought they were mostly the arrogant and nationalistic people who just cared only about safeguarding ‘one China’ and the [Communist] party, and who boasted about the superiority of China,” said the 35-year-old IT professional, who did not want to give his real name for fear of repercussions from Beijing.

I see the Left somewhat shocked by the images of protests coming from China. In the past, many communists were cured of their moral sickness by visiting (and suffering) the Asian giant and crossed ...

President Xi Jinping’s unbending approach to the pandemic has hurt businesses and strangled growth, squeezing the world’s second-largest economy.

Marilyn Chin, a new faculty member in Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing, shares her experience creating space for marginalized voices in poetry and what she is bringing to her students as an ...

Tammel Esco — who admitted he pummeled and spit on a 67-year-old woman as he called her an “Asian bitch” — was sentenced to more than 17 years behind bars.

Streets flooded with police as top security body blames ‘infiltration and sabotage’ for unrest
China has sent university students home and flooded streets with police in an attempt to disperse the most widespread anti-government protests in decades, as the country’s top security body called for a crackdown on “hostile forces”.
In an apparent effort to tackle that originally sparked the protests, authorities also announced plans to step up vaccination of older people.

Buying out China’s stake was inevitable but the government still has the onerous task of finding committed investors
Another day, another “confirmation” that the government plans in Suffolk – surely the “most announced” project in UK infrastructure history. The latest update, though, contained a genuine sign of seriousness: the Chinese are being paid to go away.
China General Nuclear (CGN), a state-backed firm, owned a 20% stake in the fledgling project and had, in effect, a right to subscribe to maintain its holding through the various funding rounds – just as it did at Hinkley Point C in Somerset. In practice, any form of Chinese involvement in Sizewell has been impossible for at least a year.

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The Fire Brigades Union has said that its members will start voting on 5 December on whether to strike over pay, with the result due at the end of January.
As PA Media reports, the move follows the rejection of a 5% pay offer. If a national strike took place, it would be the first since action over pensions between 2013 and 2015 and the first on pay since 2002/03.
This is an historic ballot for firefighters and control staff. We are rarely driven to these lengths.
Nobody wants to be in this position, but after years of derisory pay increases and a pay offer that is well below inflation, firefighters’ and control staff’s living standards are in peril.

Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Wednesday at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history, launching operation of the second inhabited outpost in low-Earth ...