USC students, many of them Chinese nationals, held a fiery rally on Tuesday night calling for an end to Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy while chanting “liberty or death.” Protesters also denounced the country’s Uyghur genocide and the Chinese Communist Party as a whole. Tuesday’s protest ran parallel to a nationwide uproar in China sparked by an apartment fire in Xinjiang that killed 10 — which some suspect turned deadly because residents were locked in their homes due to COVID lockdown controls. For @dailytrojan.