Title: "Chinese police are now conducting random stop-and-search checks for banned foreign apps such as Instagram and Twitter: reports"

Opening paragraph:

As protests over China's draconian COVID-19 policy intensify, local police tried to quell further escalation by conducting random stop-and-search checks for banned foreign social media apps, the The Wall Street Journal and CNBC reported Monday.

That title is misleading AF; this is why I don't trust western media on China.

and as usual, it's all the "ChInA OpResSeS iT's CitIZens!!111!!" bullshit. Straight up calling China's very good handling of COVID "draconian" lmao; it's straight up projection from the U.S.