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China relaxes Covid restrictions after wide protests

Beijing’s city government says it will no longer set up gates to block access to apartment compounds with identified infections.

'We want freedom': Covid protests spread across China as anger mounts

Protests against strict coronavirus measures have spread across cities in China following a deadly fire at a residential building in the country's far west.

Deadly fire in Xinjiang stirs anger over China's zero-Covid policy

Anger has spread in regional capital Urumqi, where protesters blame a strict zero-Covid policy for a blaze that ripped through a residential building, killing ten people.

Several dead, injured in apartment fire in northwest China

The blaze broke out in a high-rise building in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, which authorities blamed on "electric welding in which workers violated safety measures".

Forced sterilisation on Uighur women sees shrinking population

Official data shows birth rates have nearly halved between 2017 and 2019, the steepest drop of all Chinese provinces and regions in that time and the most extreme globally since 1950.

The odd couple: China's deepening relationship with the Taliban

China's first engaged the Taliban to protect its interests in Afghanistan in the 90s. Decades later, history repeats itself.

Slowly but surely, China is moving into Afghanistan

As the war in Afghanistan winds down, China looks to make Afghanistan a bigger part of its regional ambitions.

Turkey calls on China to close Uighur detention camps

Turkish Foreign Ministry says it "expects Chinese authorities to consider Turkish people’s reaction over serious human rights violations."

Public servants in China staying at Uighur homes in Xinjiang as 'guests'

1, 690,000 mostly Muslim households hosted 1,120,000 public servants in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in 2018.