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Police in China have moved against protests taking place in multiple cities across the country, as authorities begin to modify zero-Covid restrictions.

Victor Gao is a former Chinese diplomat and Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing. He told Newsday: 鈥淭he Chinese government鈥� is already in the process of making a transition from the original dynamic zero-Covid policy to a more revised, more flexible paradigm and it is this transition, which ironically caused a lot of uncertainties and sometimes you see bouncing back-and-forth of the infection rates and this is the time when the whole nation in China needs to be united and work together鈥� Protests if they are legal should be fully protected. Protests which are not legal鈥� anything which leads to instability in China, chaos in China, loss of control of society, anarchy鈥� should be condemned. This is our way of democracy in China. We do not want to end up in great instability for the whole country.鈥�

(Picture: Shows epidemic control workers walking in an area where communities are in lockdown on November 29th 2022 in Beijing. In recent days, China has been recording its highest number of daily Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. Credit: Kevin Frayer / Getty Images.)