Public Health COVID Restrictions Eased in Some Key Cities, Tension Lingers The recent public protests in Shanghai and Beijing marked a level of civil unrest not normally seen in China, since the landmark event of Tiananmen Square in 1989. This is not to say that protests or outrage over government policies do occur, but generally speaking, when there have been public demonstrations, the focus has been on local or provincial level officials.  Open chants calling for the leader of China, Xi Jinping, to step down after he was recently appointed to a third term, as has just occurred in Shanghai, reflect just how tired and frustrated the populace has grown with country’s zero-COVID strategy and its effect on the overall economy. As...