At the bottom of a central Beijing tower block, two dozen of my neighbours stood behind a quarantine line, facing off with the low-level officials and police tasked with enforcing China’s zero-Covid-19 policy.
The confrontation was one of many that played out across big Chinese cities at the weekend, as frustration at nearly three years of tough controls erupted into spontaneous resistance.
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