The Chinese regime tightened security in some cities in the aftermath of major protests over the weekend that flared across the country, a rare show of defiance against Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy that has uprooted daily life for the past three years. 
Police on Nov. 28 stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing, after crowds there and in other Chinese cities took to the streets in the largest public display of opposition to the ruling communist party in decades.
The large-scale public disobedience, during which protesters called for Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to step down, presents a major challenge to Xi, who personally advocated the zero-COVID approach, which calls for mass testing, aggressive contact tracing, and prolonged lockdowns….