Police detain anti-lockdown protesters in Shanghai on Saturday
Verna Yu – The Guardian Nov 27, 2022
Demonstrations have broken out across Chinese cities and university campuses, triggered by widespread anger at stringent Covid restrictions imposed for almost three years and outrage over a deadly fire widely blamed on lockdowns.
In an unusually bold act that appeared to indicate the level of people’s desperation, a crowd in Shanghai called for the removal of the Communist party and Xi Jinping in a standoff with police on Saturday, according to videos circulated on Twitter. Chinese people usually refrain from criticising the party and its leaders in public for fear of reprisals.
“Communist party! Step down! Xi Jinping! Step down!” they chanted.
In other footage, people chanted, “No PCR tests, we want freedom!”, followed by rounds of repeated calls for “Freedom! Freedom!”. The slogan echoed the call of a lone protester in Beijing in October.
According to photos posted on Chinese social media, a note stuck to a lamppost on Shanghai’s upmarket Urumqi road middle section says: “To our friends in Urumqi: I love you like I love this road, like I love my family. November 26th, 22.”
Other photos show a candlelit vigil in front of a luxury apartment compound on the same street, among a sea of white candles, with a cardboard sign reading: “Urumqi November 24. May those who died rest in peace.”
The Guardian has verified that the footage and photos were taken in Shanghai.
Widespread in-person protests are rare in China, where room for dissent has been all-but eliminated under Xi, forcing citizens mostly to vent on social media where they play cat-and-mouse games with censors.
On Friday a demonstration erupted on Friday in Urumqi, the regional capital of the far west Xinjiang region, where at least 10 people died and nine others were injured a day earlier in a fire in a residential building. Many believe they died because they were unable to escape due to Covid restrictions – a claim the local government denied.
Photos and videos circulated on Chinese social media seen by the Guardian were quickly removed by internet censors, but many continued to circulate on Twitter, which is blocked in China.
According to photos and videos on Sina Weibo that were later deleted, in the Communication University of China at Nanjing, in eastern China, two students held up white sheets of paper on a campus plaza on Saturday. By night, they were joined by crowds of students who lit up their mobile phones and sang the national anthem with its lyric “Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves.” They chanted: “Ten thousand years to the people. May the dead rest in peace!”
One of the young men was cheered by the crowd as he said: “I used to be a coward, but today I have to speak up for those who have perished!” Calls to the university for comment were unanswered.
Among other images circulating on social media, a young man standing in front of what looks like a Covid testing station, holds up a piece of paper saying: “Grievously commemorating Nov 24 fire victims.”
In reference to a slew of tragedies that occurred due to Covid restrictions, a placard worn on the back of another young man says: “I was in the bus which turned over … I was among those who walked hundreds of miles [to escape], I was the person who jumped to death, I was the person who was trapped in the fire – if I wasn’t these people, the next one will be me.”
Social media users say he was from the Northwest Political Science and Law University, but his identity could not be verified.
In Shanghai, the message “Do not stay silent” was spray painted on to a red billboard celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Eastern China University of Political Science and Law.
At the Qingdao Film Academy in eastern China, a piece of paper stuck on the entrance read: “Mourning the November 24 fire victims. Do not become indifferent. Do not stay silent. Do not forget.”
The Guardian has verified the locations of these pictures.
Video footage said to be filmed in Beijing showed people singing the Internationale and chanting “Freedom or death!” outside a housing compound during the night. The location could not be confirmed.
A video, purportedly filmed in Guangzhou, showed crowds tearing down lockdown barriers in a housing compound, while another – purportedly filmed in Tongzhou near Beijing – also showed crowds crushing lockdown barriers while chanting “No to PCR tests”. Their locations could not be independently verified.
China Digital Times, a US-based news website, reported that protests also occurred in Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in the north-west and Sichuan Foreign Languages University in the south-west.
“Tonight, the brightness broke through the night,” said one swiftly censored social media post. “Everything is about to begin.”
Another said: “I love you young people. You have fire in you.”
Phone calls to China’s ministry of public security and the Shanghai Public Security Bureau went unanswered on Sunday morning.
Prof Chung Kim-wah, a social scientist formerly with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said that although widespread, these small-scale local protests were unlikely to threaten the central government. He expected the government would use both appeasement and crackdown to defuse the discontent.
“One needs to observe whether the anti-Xi slogans will spread, but Xi could shift the responsibility [to local authorities] as [the central government] can say it’s the local governments who have over-enforced” the Covid curbs, he said, referring to a government announcement on 11 November that eased some restrictions and urged local officials to refrain from indiscriminate Covid restrictions.
China, being what it is, could easily murder 150 million of its citizens and not bat an eye. Ji is just another globalist con artist and Schwab controls Ji and Ji goes along. Imagine the total gall shown by Fauci as he addresses a crowd of reporters. These are death wish agents, Fauci needs to swing on the end of a rope, as does Ji. Is this coming to US? Are we headed to civil war. The Democommunist party will go too far and you’ll see riots in the US. It’s good to see Chinese people starting to get their dander up. All I can say is watch your backs, your lives are worth zero in a country like China.
A few years back socialist Pope Francis made a deal with the communist government in China that the Chruch and the religion would be subject to the dictates to that government, which deal put the actual spiritual leaders of all religions in that nation under fire and especially the real spiritual Catholic leaders including orthodox priests and nuns. Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong vigorously opposed the Pope’s cowardly stealth and betrayal of fundamental Christian principles, and is now presently on trial by the communist regime in Hong Kong. Those who resist and are found to be supporting the underground church in China are arrested and persecuted. This is the same communist government which communist, Justine Trudeau, lauds as the model government of the world, and persecutes anyone who does not follow his governments totalitarian diktats. I pray for the success of the Chinese people in overthrowing their evil government. If they wake up to the fact that if they rise up the communists will not be able to stop them, nor will their army.
Yes, God does freely give his graces and helps, but we are like children to the Great Eternal Almighty God, and like a good father children must learn also to give and to give up to him something in return in their gratitude and love. All of our sacrifices to get rid of the evil in our midst are meaningful, and no true Christian should be sitting on their hands doing nothing in these times, just waiting for the second coming.
I think I saw Bruce Lee in the photo..
……(but then again they all rook arike)
@sig huyll
Not convinced WEF has any control over Xi in the slightest.China is obviously under the CCP’s cancerous yoke but i have a feeling this won’t be the case for much longer.The recsnt televised images of the CCP capo being forcibly removed from his chair during a conference with Xi was very telling.I suspect the usurped Ancient Sino Dragon families are about to seize back control and return the country back to the Confucian model of governance that existed for centuries before Rockefeller/Kissinger and the (Li)-bloodline (Kaifeng/Sino/Jews) launched their Maoist coup d etat back in the day.
RAH stop your waaaycist b#llsh1t
We all know in the last 80 years the CCP has spread nothing but love etc
I think it’s time to gas ((commies))
Why we followed their lead in masking is the result of brainwashing of us to think they are so far above us intellectually. This is utter nonsense and we need to wake up from this inferiority complex.
They lead us into lockdowns and masking infants. We saw them do it and followed like the class dunce.
They are bringing the west down
Why we followed their lead in masking is the result of beating into us that they are so far above us intellectually. This is utter nonsense and we need to wake up from this inferiority complex.
They lead us into lockdowns and masking infants. We saw them do it and followed like the class dunce.
Their compliance is why the orient was dormant until only 40 years ago.
They are bringing the west down
I have a few basics rule of thumb…..
One of them is I don’t trust media that comes from(((Communist Countries)))
Its either staged and/or out of context….
If it is real ???
…..rest assured the (((Commies))) will “Palestine” the dissenters.
“According to photos posted on Chinese social media, a note stuck to a lamppost on Shanghai’s upmarket Urumqi road middle section says…” … A note on a lamppost? I think many of us know what SHOULD be hanging from lampposts instead of mere notes. Plenty of traitors and petty tyrants to choose from. And some of those cop goons as seen in the photo at the top would be a good choice as well to be dangling from lampposts at the end of ropes, or their heads on spikes, or their throats slit from ear to ear, or screwdrivers jammed through their ear-holes.
Every one of those cops enforcing vicious tyranny on the citizens should be marked for death, and the sooner the better.
Let me give you a vivid example of the difference between cops in places like China, Lostralia, and Canaduh versus where I live. I have mentioned this story a couple times in comments here. While treasonous cops in China, Lostralia, Canaduh have been cracking skulls of citizens just for them trying to live their lives, most cops in my area realize they’re part of the community…
In the early weeks of the covid-1984 hysteria, my neighbors had a party in front of their house that spilled into the street. About 30 people were there, including me and my girl, drinking, laughing, socializing, music playing. Not a face diaper in sight and nobody gave a standing piss about “distancing” or any such bullshit. This was when the rest of the world was freaking the f*ck out. Well, a cop drove up around 10:30 pm…and all he did was politely ask us to turn down the music a bit. I offered him a beer before he drove off and he laughed and politely declined, but said he’d try to come back by later for one. That was it and we all hung out until whenever the f*ck we wanted.
China, Canadumbf*cks, Lostralia, the Jew-K, even some American cities, it would have been boots to faces. The difference is, citizens where I am are armed to the teeth and have little tolerance for tyranny. It’s up to YOU how you allow yourselves to be treated by local “authorities”.
PERVERTS R US
https://christiansfortruth.com/uk-6-years-in-prison-for-offending-transgendered-people/