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People in the Chinese diaspora use the social network to protest.
Thousands of people took to the streets of China’s Wuhan city to protest against the government’s zero-COVID-19 policies. The protests, called the Sitong Bridge protest, have taken place in several parts of China and around the world in the past week. There have been eight deaths due to COVID-19 in China so far.
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China is a hot new place to get information about the election.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday rejected anti-government protests that had erupted over the past week and called them an attempt to “incite separatism”. He said, “We will not allow any group to interfere in our internal politics.” The protests were sparked by a Chinese student holding an anti-Xi banner on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge.