Protest
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World
How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters
After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country’s all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.
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World
After Xi’s Coronation, a Roar of Discontent Against His Hard-Line Politics
Protests in China have roused a tradition of dissent that had seemed spent after 10 years under Xi Jinping. The effects may far outlast the street clashes.
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World
Banana Peels for Xi Jinping
There’s a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s Red Square by holding up a blank sheet of paper. “How can you arrest me?” the man objects in one version. “I didn’t say anything ...
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World
The Long Odds Facing China’s Protesters
Popular protests are more easily begun than ever before, but they are more likely to dissipate, too.
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World
Proud, Scared and Conflicted. What the China Protesters Told Me.
In more than a dozen interviews, young people explained how the events of the past few days became what one called a “tipping point.”
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World
China Regroups to Snuff Out a Wave of Protests
Officials are using the ruling Communist Party’s decades-old policy of repression and surveillance to quash the most widespread protests in decades. But Xi Jinping is silent.
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World
Protests Erupt in Shanghai and Other Chinese Cities Over Covid Controls
Protests spread to cities and campuses in China on Saturday night amid rising public anger at the country’s strict but faltering controls against ...
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World
Trudeau to Testify About Invoking Emergencies Act During Trucker Protest
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada will appear at an inquiry on Friday to testify about his decision in February to invoke Canada’s ...
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World
Iran’s Football Team Has Already Won
Iran’s national football team, known affectionately as Team Melli, kicked off its World Cup on Monday in dispiriting fashion. The side, which ...
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Sports
Iranian fans with pre-revolutionary flags are denied entry to the England game.
Iranian fans carrying the country’s pre-revolutionary flag were barred from entering their country’s World Cup game against England on Monday ...