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The ongoing strict restrictions after almost three years of the pandemic had caused resentment in the country.
Quick Glance: In a huge legislative shift, China now allows COVID patients to isolate at home.
- On Tuesday, local authorities authorized restaurants to reopen for eat-in service, so people sat inside a Beijing cafe.
- Many of the initiatives taken by particular cities or regions were reflected in the National Health Authority's list of policy revisions.
- In recent days, authorities around the country have issued warnings about limited supplies and price gouging by shops.
- "Please buy rationally, buy on demand, and do not blindly stock up," the Beijing Municipal Food and Drug Administration was quoted as saying in the state-owned Beijing Evening News.
Welcome, but test negative first: Japan and India will test international arrivals from China for Covid-19 before they are allowed to enter.
Quick Glance: Saudi Arabia's lavish reception of China's President Xi is a signal to the US and Biden, according to an expert
- According to an observer, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (Dec 7) to a lavish welcome, a move regarded as a not-so-subtle message to the US that the Saudis may form other relationships.
- Riyadh's snub was thus addressed more particularly at President Biden and the Democratic Party, and less so at Republicans and the United States as a general, according to Prof Hashemi.
- Prof Hashemi believes Saudi Arabia is unlikely to refocus its strategic and security alliances away from the US and toward China at this time.
Quick Glance: Young Chinese express excitement and defiance in COVID "tipping point" protests
- HONG KONG/BEIJING, 30 November (Reuters) - When Yang, a Shanghai office worker, viewed video recordings of a burning building in western China, a calamity in which ten people died, she claimed she couldn't hold back her rage with the pandemic's draconian COVID-19 regulations three years in.
- Six young people interviewed by Reuters in four cities across China, all of whom are dipping their toes into activism for the first time, describe a mix of elation, anxiety, and defiance following a restless weekend and tightening of security.
- People chanted, "Down with the Chinese Communist Party," and some removed their masks.
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