Turmoil across China is partly due to Beijing being ‘unwilling to take a better vaccine from the West,’ Avril Haines says. A wave of Chinese demonstrations against Beijing's draconian COVID policies is testing President Xi Jinping, and how they develop from here "will be important to Xi's standing,"...

BEIJING: China is softening its tone on the severity of COVID-19 and easing some coronavirus restrictions even as its daily case toll hovers near records, after anger over the world's toughest curbs morphed into protests across the country. Several cities in the world's second-largest economy, whil...