Breaking: Overseas #Uyghur activists have confirmed that protests are indeed taking place in #Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, with people demanding authorities to end the strict lockdown that has been happening for more than 100 days across the region. https://t.co/xjbWyHNvY5

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

One woman said: “then let me get covid for 5 days. The lockdown has been going on for more than four months, and I would have contracted and recovered from covid more than 20 times.”

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

A video showing Urumqi’s deputy party Secretary trying to talk to angry protesters. One guy asked when can the government end the lockdown, the deputy party Secretary said “there is no point whether we end the lockdown or not. It’s for everyone’s safety.” https://t.co/Vck5mZ2f4V

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

Update: a local authority used megaphone to urge protesters to go home and promised the Urumqi city government will hold a meeting tonight and give people an answer about whether they would end the lockdown tomorrow at 2 pm. https://t.co/9weCtN2M1r

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

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— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) November 26, 2022

Chinese protests spreadhttps://t.co/0hd1EnjJYg

— Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) November 27, 2022

Did a quick search of “Shanghai” and “down with Xi Jinping” in Chinese on Google News. None of the reports about China protests came fr Hong Kong media. A HK media friend told me that some carried the story but kept it low key, but def no mention of the slogan, which is a taboo pic.twitter.com/gzN7WapKrV

— Vivienne Chow (@VivienneChow) November 27, 2022

China is swarming twitter with spam to try to drown out coverage of the protests happening there — a big free speech issue that I hope @elonmusk will address.https://t.co/OF16cFTfyn

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2022

Protests against strict Covid measures in China have spread to the biggest cities with protests late into Sunday evening

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— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 28, 2022

Breakingviews: Protests leave China facing a terrible trilemmahttps://t.co/B6Nii0tjwn#China #Covid #Protests

— (@MoRaY2022) November 28, 2022

The policy mistakes behind China’s Covid protests https://t.co/PJ316EgmgC

— Asia Times (@asiatimesonline) November 28, 2022

Six steps China can take to move beyond ‘zero-Covid’ policy and reopen https://t.co/VqlzjxgVvU

— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) November 28, 2022

what country is going to call them out on this? https://t.co/9wlSU8R7Y9

— Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) November 28, 2022

1/A quick thread about China and the protests.

A lot of people are comparing these protests to Tiananmen 1989, but the current protests aren't nearly of that scale yet.

But if they DO get to that scale, China can't easily pull the same trick they did in 1989.

— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2022