Guangzhou (China): Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in the industrial hub of Guangzhou in southern China as public anger against the stringent Zero Covid policy of the Chinese government and resultant hard COVID-19 lockdown boiled over, three years into the coronavirus pandemic. The violence in Guangzhou was a marked escalation from similar protests in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities over the weekend. The current wave of country wide protests in biggest wave of civil disobedience in China since Xi Jinping started his reign as president a decade ago. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Zero Covid policy has...