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Riots break out in Shanghai as starving residents revolt against ‘Zero Covid’ lockdown
https://www.thechronicle.com ^ | April 10, 2022 | Frank Chung

Posted on 04/10/2022 8:57:36 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

Riots have broken out in Shanghai as starving residents begin to revolt against the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian “Zero Covid” lockdown more than three weeks in.

Disturbing videos emerging on social media show desperate scenes inside China’s largest city, which has been placed under increasingly harsh restrictions as Omicron cases continue to break daily records.

Crowds of residents were seen looting food parcels in one video posted to Weibo, while other clips showed furious mobs clashing with PPE-clad Covid prevention workers as they tried to break through barriers erected across the city.

One video captured the sounds of screaming from apartment balconies as people run out of food, while in another viral clip a man was filmed hurling abuse at an apparent government worker over the phone.

(Excerpt) Read more at thechronicle.com.au ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burn; ccp; china; down; it; putinsfriendxi; shanghai
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1 posted on 04/10/2022 8:57:37 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19
You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy!
2 posted on 04/10/2022 9:01:14 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: RomanSoldier19

Tear that country apart anything is better than the current leadership I’m sure. They treat their people like animals.


3 posted on 04/10/2022 9:02:34 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512782938433556480.html


4 posted on 04/10/2022 9:02:57 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: toddausauras
Meanwhile...in Canada...


5 posted on 04/10/2022 9:06:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: RomanSoldier19
Ti F me.

That's "F" in "time" for low information voters.

6 posted on 04/10/2022 9:08:57 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

In contrast to certain FReepers’ support for Ukraine and for Russians against Putin, I’m not seeing much support for the Chinese people.

Hypocrisy has deep roots.


7 posted on 04/10/2022 9:11:53 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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8 posted on 04/10/2022 9:17:18 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit; )
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To: BenLurkin

Little Johnny Castro


9 posted on 04/10/2022 9:21:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: logi_cal869

So what you are saying is that you need someone to tell you
that folks here don’t support the Chinese leadership.


10 posted on 04/10/2022 9:22:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: logi_cal869

Because there is greater cultural affinity between westerners and Slavs than between westerners and Asians or Africans. As for myself, I hope that we have another Chinese revolution, with the Chicoms getting it in the neck from their subjects, who have suffered enough. And any members of the Chinese elite who wanted to flee here should be turned back.


11 posted on 04/10/2022 9:24:31 PM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: RomanSoldier19

😂


12 posted on 04/10/2022 9:24:43 PM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: RomanSoldier19

they are killing us here...


13 posted on 04/10/2022 10:01:42 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes! I almost added something about Justine to my post as well. He’s just as bad given the chance.


14 posted on 04/10/2022 10:33:18 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: logi_cal869

There’s also the fact that China industrially has us by the short and curlies. The only way that anything is ever going to change in China is for things to get so bad there that the people overthrown the government.


15 posted on 04/10/2022 10:33:29 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Does the Chinese government know something we don’t know?


16 posted on 04/10/2022 10:45:18 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Spktyr
Seen Dragon Day?

Trailer

17 posted on 04/10/2022 10:51:19 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Includes links to videos:

Starving Shanghai residents loot the supermarket

18 posted on 04/10/2022 10:57:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: logi_cal869
In contrast to certain FReepers’ support for Ukraine and for Russians against Putin, I’m not seeing much support for the Chinese people.

Hypocrisy has deep roots.

The Chinese people are allowing their elderly to die hungry and alone. They are allowing themselves to be prisoners in their own homes with zero justification. They are allowing the authorities to seize their pets, break them with iron bars until they can only whimper, and sack them up still alive to await pickup like garbage.

No doubt they are relieved that it isn't them and their children going into the sacks with broken spines, this time. But when it goes there eventually, they will cower and hope to be passed by and live another day.

They deserve no respect.

19 posted on 04/10/2022 11:12:16 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: JustaTech

No argument.


20 posted on 04/10/2022 11:18:47 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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