Posted on 10/14/2022 4:59:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Chinese Party Congress set to open on Sunday already has Xi Jinping on edge. These gatherings happen only every five years, and this time it is expected to ratify his plan to void term limits and make him in effect dictator-for-life. While it is impossible for outsiders to know the extent of opposition to Xi, almost certainly there are factions that are dead set against this move, based on personal and regional loyalties if not on opposition to his policies and intention to make himself another Mao Zedong.
Thus, a demonstration attacking Xi that broke out in an affluent neighborhood of Beijing must have irritated a man who probably already is on pins and needles. Such demonstrations are extremely rare, especially anything directly attacking Xi. In the Chinese context they are shocking.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Police rushed to a highway bridge in Beijing after a column of dark smoke appeared above protest banners condemning Chinese leader Xi Jinping by name—a rare display of defiance in the capital that came as top Communist Party officials arrived to attend a closely watched political gathering.
Video footage and photographs of the smoke and two banners—one of which had “Depose the Traitorous Dictator Xi Jinping” scrawled on it in red—circulated widely on Chinese social-media platforms Thursday.
Here are some pictures and banner translations from Twitter:
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So much for their Social Credit Score.
complaining that a communist country is being communist is fairly stupid
Fake protest for Western consumption
I do not think that it is a fake protest, but rather the displeasure of most Chinese citizens chafing under his rule.
As explained by a former missionary to Wuhan, most government officials simply do not share their opinions on Xi, or on any official at all.
If they support the official and he is overthrown, then they may be at risk personally.
If they seem too enthusiastic, then they will be perceived as being an ally of the official.
Whomever this person is, knows what the CCP army and CCP police supporting Xi will do. He is disappeared.
And the people that were associated with him will be questioned.
bkmk
Giving a population a little bit of middle-class wealth is a dangerous thing.
Fascism, China style, did just that over the last couple decades. However, Xi has been pulling the country back to a more classic Marxist model.
With the expected results of lessening standards of living.
Fake poster - you.
We don’t want COVID tests. We want to eat.
We don’t want Cultural Revolution. We want reforms.
We don’t want lockdowns. We want freedom.
We don’t want leaders. We want votes.
We don’t want lies. We want dignity.
We aren’t slaves. We are citizens.
不要核酸要吃饭，不要文革要改革
不要封城要自由，不要领袖要选票
不要谎言要尊严，不做奴才做公民
Go on strike. Remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping.
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Aounds like a politician’s platform. Will this stop Xi from becoming leader for life? Or even continuing as leader at all?
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