eradicate covid 19 from china. and when it comes to the protests, we had a quieter night certainly in the capital beijing on monday night. the chinese government has an enormous system of surveillance and state security. many levers it can use to try to repress people from coming out into the streets. for instance, we are hearing more and more about universities sending their students home very early, perhaps in an attempt to try to take some of the air out of some of these protests. and just bring back to that family that has suffered so much in that fire, they are ethnic uyghurs, that is a population that has been rounded up by potentially the millions in this recent years. that family alone, they tell us that their father who has been put into an internment camp, they haven t spoke to him for years, and brother as well. they don t even know if they can get any information to those people to let them know
protesting and i think we ve seen evidence of this hard-line approach with police flooding streets of the capital beijing on monday night and shanghai as well. the commercial captital putting up barriers where he protested. and we have eyewitness account and videos from the subway system of police stopping travelers and searching their phones. and eyewitness telling us that they were looking for apps and vpns that let users circumsvent that stops anyone from china seeing facebook or google. things like that. those are signs of how the authorities now are going to deal with what has been the biggest display of discontent that this country has seen really in a generation. absolutely. it is good context for it all. ivanhat the united