China Finally Acknowledges Protests, Blames Unspecified ‘Infiltration and Sabotage’

The Chinese Communist Party’s media arms finally acknowledged on Wednesday a wave of anti-regime protests that swept the nation over the weekend – an eruption of public dissent preceded by nearly two years of regular, but isolated, protests – blaming unspecified “hostile forces” for creating artificial discord.

Crowds of hundreds of protesters congregated throughout the weekend in some of China’s major cities – most prominently in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Zhengzhou – demanding an end to the regime’s “zero-Covid” policy, which utilizes mass house arrest and lockdown protocols to allegedly...