China covid protests: authorities call for crackdown on ‘hostile forces’
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Helen Davidson in Taipei from Science | The Guardian on (#66A0D)
Streets flooded with police as top security body blames infiltration and sabotage' for unrest
China has sent university students home and flooded streets with police in an attempt to disperse the most widespread anti-government protests in decades, as the country's top security body called for a crackdown on hostile forces".
In an apparent effort to tackle anger at the zero-Covid policies that originally sparked the protests, authorities also announced plans to step up vaccination of older people.
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