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b'Anger over China\\u2019s \\u201cZero-COVID\\u201d policy erupted in protests this week. It\\u2019s a startling and nearly unheard-of challenge to President Xi\\u2019s power, a short time after he secured a third term in office. The anger over Zero COVID is unique, the staff writer Jiayang Fan tells the host Tyler Foggatt, because it has united disparate groups across China that transcend class and geography. But Fan cautions about concluding this moment is the start of a revolution: \\u201cThese political wobbles are something that the Communist Party is accustomed to, to a certain degree, despite trying to prevent it at all costs.\\u201d A clampdown seems to be already under way.\\xa0\\xa0\\nThe protests also arrive at a delicate moment in U.S.-China relations. Tensions over trade and Taiwan have flared. The Biden Administration has even criticized China\\u2019s Zero-COVID restrictions and lockdowns. \\u201cI can see Beijing using Biden\\u2019s words as a piece of evidence that the protests in China are not organic but somehow seeded by hostile foreign agents,\\u201d Fan says. \\u201cEven though clearly not many foreigners are getting into China these days.\\u201d'