Protests Hit Hong Kong, Calls For Xi To Step Down, Clampdown On Media: China Boils Over Zero-Covid Policy — Key Points

Students in Hong Kong held blank papers chanting “oppose dictatorship” in a protest on Monday against China’s Covid-19 control measures after demonstrators on the mainland issued an unprecedented call for the resignation of President Xi Jinping in the massive show of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades, reported news agency Associated Press. Zero-Covid Policy Protest in China: 10 Points While Beijing and Shanghai saw no protests on Monday, some students, about 50, gathered at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where they sang songs and lit candles in support of protestors in mainland cities. Apart from the mainland cities, protests have also occurred in Guangzhou near Hong Kong, Chengdu and Chongqing in the southwest, and Nanjing in the east, according to witnesses and video on social media, the AP report stated. The United States backed the protests by citizens against China's zero-covid policy measures.