Crowd Angered By Lockdowns Calls For China's Xi To Step Down

The transcript discusses a surge in COVID-19 cases in China, leading to protests fueled by an apartment fire that killed 10 people. The protests, unprecedented under Xi Jinping, have spread across major cities like Wuhan, Chengdu, Beijing, and Shanghai. The Chinese government is responding with increased security and a crackdown on dissent, including the arrest of a BBC journalist. Protesters are using blank pages to symbolize censorship, and the situation is drawing comparisons to the 1989 Tiananmen protests.

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