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Trudeau expresses support for Chinese protesters as show of dissent roils Beijing

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese universities sent students home and police deployed in Beijing and Shanghai to prevent further protests on Tuesday after crowds

Taipei, Nov. 28 (CNA) A candlelight vigil was held Sunday night in Taipei to show support for protests that have erupted in China against the government's strict zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy after restrictions reportedly delayed rescue efforts in a deadly fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, leading to 10 deaths.

Officials frame nationwide protests as the work of foreign forces as state media say zero-COVID policy will stay

Wang Dan told Newsweek that even if the Chinese Communist Party sends in armed troops like it did 33 years ago, "the end will be different from 1989."

The government wields far greater control over peoples lives than it did during the student-led movement of 1989

XI Jinping will be ousted in a coup as he faces an unprecedented uprising more significant than Tiananmen Square, a former diplomat has warned.Furious

Taipei, Nov. 28 (CNA) The New Power Party (NPP), the smallest of four political parties with seats in the Legislature, is facing serious internal dissent and a threat to its future survival after losing seats in Saturday's local government elections around Taiwan.

By Chung Li-hua and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAThe government will keep a close watch on changes in China and respond in a timely manner, Premier Su Tseng-chang （蘇貞昌） said yesterday amid concern that Beijing might try to divert attention from domestic unrest by attacking Taiwan.

Taipei, Nov. 27 (CNA) A renowned Chinese dissident on Sunday said the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) major setback in Saturday's 9-in-1 elections did not mean that voters were supporting the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) or ditching the government's "counter-Beijing" strategy.