Posted on 11/28/2022 10:12:47 AM PST by FarCenter
BEIJING--Defiance against the Chinese government’s zero-COVID strategy is escalating in many parts of China, with some protesters even publicly calling for top leader Xi Jinping to resign.
It is a rare and astonishing development for a nation that harshly clamps down on protests and any criticism leveled against the ruling regime.
Observers said the tumult could further deepen if Chinese leadership mishandles the protests, given the pent-up frustrations among the population over longtime COVID-19 restrictions imposed on the people's daily lives.
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Videos posted on Chinese social media show dozens of protesters on the Urumqi road in Shanghai before dawn on Nov. 27 openly denouncing Xi and the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hundreds of residents showed up to protest on the same road on the night of Nov. 27 as well--many of them young people.
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Hundreds of students rallied at Tsinghua University, an elite university in Beijing and Xi’s alma mater, on the afternoon of Nov. 27.
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On the night of Nov. 27, more than 100 residents flocked to the Liangma bridge in the capital, which is close to an area where many foreign embassies and U.N. organizations are located.
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In Nanjing in Jiangsu province, just north of Shanghai, hundreds of students held a similar rally on Nov. 26 at the Communication University of China, Nanjing.
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They bombed us with drama over COVID supporting COVID restrictions and vaccines, then drama over Ukraine and Russia, now its China.
The mainstream media plays to someone’s tune and it isn’t mine.
How is the Tsinghua football program?
Time to bring the tanks out.
Dozens in a metro area with over 25 million people and a country of 1.4 billion?
What’s happening in China shows you why the left wants to disarm the population.
Tsinghua University?
Isn’t that a beer?
And didn’t Xi spend a year or two in Iowa? U.I.?
Piss on the communists.
5.56mm
CCP can end this in about 10 minutes. Not doing so means they don’t choose to do so, not that they can’t.
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree)?
So over the last couple of decades many Chinese experienced a taste of prosperity and freedom. Now the CCP is cutting back and re-imposing their draconian controls. Plus the people turn on their TV’s and see mask-less people at the World Cup games and realize their fleeting glimpse of prosperity and freedom is slipping away. The protests by themselves will do nothing but they do present an opportunity for some opposition leader who can use popular support to marshal a revolution. That person may betray the people and become as or more oppressive than the CCP or they may be a source of liberation. Just as possible no leader will step forth and the uprising may be smashed.
Something similar has been happening in Iran. The people protest and are crushed by the regime. Suppression is always temporary and the protest only get worse and worse...
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree)?
So over the last couple of decades many Chinese experienced a taste of prosperity and freedom. Now the CCP is cutting back and re-imposing their draconian controls. Plus the people turn on their TV’s and see mask-less people at the World Cup games and realize their fleeting glimpse of prosperity and freedom is slipping away. The protests by themselves will do nothing but they do present an opportunity for some opposition leader who can use popular support to marshal a revolution. That person may betray the people and become as or more oppressive than the CCP or they may be a source of liberation. Just as possible no leader will step forth and the uprising may be smashed.
Something similar has been happening in Iran. The people protest and are crushed by the regime. Suppression is always temporary and the protest only get worse and worse...
Nope. Every govt knows that there is a tipping point where their escalation will end with the toppling of the regime regardless of how many troops or tanks they have. This is especially dangerous for the regime when considering how empathetic military personnel are with the revolution. Best move is to find a way to deescalate the situation and calm the masses. This is so much bigger than the Tianemen Square protests. History is the ultimate guide and China knows it’s a paper tiger.
China is the Globalist Pilot Program. Klaus Schwab can barely contain his excitement for the ChiCom’s success.
They made the mistake of following the Dems’ Covid talking points.
Good point.
“So over the last couple of decades many Chinese experienced a taste of prosperity and freedom.”
More the prosperity than freedom.
For about three decades the Chinese economy has been on fire. The average Chinese worker can afford things unimaginable to earlier generations.
Now that economic growth has slowed significantly. Their wages and costs have gotten to the point that they aren’t the low cost solution anymore. It’s been so bad that to keep the economy going the government has been allowing (almost mandating) that more cities be built. Ghost cities that no one will ever live in. Falling apart before they’re ever finished.
In China real estate is 30% of GDP, compared to appropriately 7.5% in the US.
China is a ticking time bomb.
Bkmk
I thought Xi was from Iowa.
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