Rare Beijing Protest Channels Covid Frustrations Before China Communist Party Meeting

Wall Street Journal ^

[Truthsearcher]

BEIJING—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.

One man told Wall Street Journal reporters he saw the thick smoke and the unfurled banners hanging from the bridge at about 1 p.m. local time. Police arrived shortly after he saw the smoke, he said.

[Truthsearcher]

Banner reads: “We Don’t Want Nucleic Acid Tests, We Want Food; We Want Freedom, Not Lockdowns, We Want Votes, Not Leaders; We Want Dignity, Not Lies; We are Citizens, not Slaves.” and “Depose the Traitorous Dictator Xi Jinping”

[PGR88]

Now THAT is courage of conviction. He’ll likely never been seen again

Makes me think, in contrast, of the Karens and their “love is love” and “Slava Ukraini” lawn signs in my neighborhood.

[drypowder]

If the people in China get too loud in their protest against the treatment by the CCP and Xi, they will be dealt with in the same way that China has dealt with them in the past, they will exterminated so all will be quiet once again. They is what the DC communist democrats want for us, “us” meaning everyone but themselves and their families.