In China, Spirit of White Paper Protests Still Inspires

Washington - On Nov. 24, 2022, a fire in a high-rise residential building in Urumqi killed at least 10 people and injured nine, sparking local protests that quickly spread across China's cities, where people had been chafing for three years under Beijing's draconian zero-COVID policy.

The protests are now widely seen as a turning point for China, as the protestors - many of them students or young people adrift in