China has witnessed a wave of demonstrations against its zero COVID policy. The Chinese Communist Party now faces a difficult choice between relaxing COVID restrictions or ignoring protesters’ demands at the cost of an even more significant movement of protests.Guests: Robert Daly, the Director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China, and Kevin Slaten, the research lead of the Freedom House’s China Dissent Monitor.Host: Živilė Raškauskaitė

The people of Sri Lanka, who have been protesting for several months demanding the resignation of the President, have achieved their goal. After the demonstrations escalated President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, accused of mismanagement and corruption, fled the country and eventually resigned from office. A country gripped by an economic crisis is electing a new president.Colombo-based political scientist Aruna Kulatunga, a journalist and economic analyst Shiran Illanperuma and a lawyer Bhavani Fonseka, researcher at the Center for Policy Alternatives in Colombo, tell us what united the nation for peaceful protests against the President.