Jessie Yeung – CNN Nov 28, 2022
From Shanghai to Beijing, protests have erupted across China in a rare show of dissent against the ruling Communist Party sparked by anger over the country’s increasingly costly zero-Covid policy.
As numbers swelled at demonstrations in multiple major cities over the weekend, so too have the range of grievances voiced – with some calling for greater democracy and freedom.
Among the thousands of protesters, hundreds have even called for the removal of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who for nearly three years has overseen a strategy of mass-testing, brute-force lockdowns, enforced quarantine and digital tracking that has come at a devastating human and economic cost.
Here’s what we know.
Why are Chinese people protesting?
Anti lockdown protests began in Urumqi eastern China. Click to enlarge
The protests were triggered by a deadly fire last Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of the far western region of Xinjiang. The blaze killed at least 10 people and injured nine in an apartment building – leading to public fury after videos of the incident appeared to show lockdown measures had delayed firefighters from reaching the victims.
The city had been under lockdown for more than 100 days, with residents unable to leave the region and many forced to stay home.
Videos showed Urumqi residents marching to a government building and chanting for the end of lockdown on Friday. The following morning, the local government said it would lift the lockdown in stages – but did not provide a clear time frame or address the protests.
That failed to quell public anger and the protests rapidly spread beyond Xinjiang, with residents in cities and universities across China also taking to the streets.
Where are the protests happening?
The most prominent protests took place in two of China’s biggest cities – the capital Beijing and financial center Shanghai.
In Shanghai on Saturday, hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil on Urumqi Road, named after the Xinjiang city, to mourn the fire victims. Many held up blank sheets of white paper – a symbolic protest against censorship – and chanted, “Need human rights, need freedom.”
Some also shouted for Xi to “step down,” and sang The Internationale, a socialist anthem used as a call to action in demonstrations worldwide for more than a century. It was also used during pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing before a brutal crackdown by armed troops in 1989.
China’s zero-Covid policies have been felt particularly acutely in Shanghai, where a two-month long lockdown earlier this year left many without access to food, medical care or other basic supplies – sowing deep public resentment.
By Sunday evening, mass demonstrations had spread to Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Wuhan, where thousands of residents called for not only an end to Covid restrictions, but more remarkably, political freedoms. Residents in some locked-down neighborhoods tore down barriers and took to the streets.
Protests also took place on campuses, including the prestigious institutions of Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Communication University of China, Nanjing.
Why is this significant?
Public protest is exceedingly rare in China, where the Communist Party has tightened its grip on all aspects of life, launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent, wiped out much of civil society and built a high-tech surveillance state.
The mass surveillance system is even more stringent in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is accused of detaining up to 2 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in camps where former detainees have alleged they were physically and sexually abused.
A damning United Nations report in September described the region’s “invasive” surveillance network, with police databases containing hundreds of thousands of files with biometric data such as facial and eyeball scans.
China has repeatedly denied accusations of human rights abuses in the region
While protests do occur in China, they rarely happen on this scale, nor take such direct aim at the central government and the nation’s leader, said Maria Repnikova, an associate professor at Georgia State University who studies Chinese politics and media.
“This is a different type of protest from the more localized protests we have seen recurring over the past two decades that tend to focus their claims and demands on local officials and on very targeted societal and economic issues,” she said. Instead, this time the protests have expanded to include “the sharper expression of political grievances alongside with concerns about Covid-19 lockdowns.”
There have been growing signs in recent months that the public has run out of patience with zero-Covid, after nearly three years of economic hardship and disruption to daily life.
Isolated pockets of protest broke out October, with anti-zero-Covid slogans appearing on the walls of public bathrooms and in various Chinese cities, inspired by a banner hung by a lone protester on an overpass in Beijing just days before Xi cemented a third term in power.
Earlier in November, larger protests took place in Guangzhou, with residents defying lockdown orders to topple barriers and cheer as they took to the streets.
How have authorities responded?
The Shanghai protests on Saturday led to scuffles between demonstrators and police, with arrests made in the early hours of the morning. Undeterred, protesters returned on Sunday, where they met a more aggressive response – videos show chaotic scenes of police pushing, dragging, and beating protesters.
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This is MI6 & CIAda 5th column. Its the same in Iran and Russia.
I hope the Chinese regime crushes these protests. They’ve been building, training, and funding these 5th columns for decades.
The Chinese people at last are seeing that the CCP has no Heavenly Mandate and that is a good sign. The corrupt Communists are not infallible.
I for one will pray for them and may the Creator deliver them from the cruel and odious yoke they are in and may they live in freedom and happiness.
This is not Tiananmen 2.0, it’s Tiananmen Squared.
No one mentions that the Chinese are dying at a faster rate since the lockdowns began (March 2020) then they did in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
Hey, China! It’s time for PANDEMIC DENIAL and a revision of history. You had a ‘bat’ and North America had a rat with a Brooklyn accent.
Carl Jones, so you approve of the lockdowns?
“the local government said it would lift the lockdown in stages – but did not provide a clear time frame or address the protests.” … Lift the lock-down in stages, eh? Then the people should hold the treasonous criminal “government” to account in stages: on the first day, today, throw a bunch of bureaucrats into the streets, hang 5 of them, slit the throats of 5 of them, and beat 5 more of them to death. On day two, stage that up to 10 hangings, 10 throat slittings, and 10 of them beaten to death in the street. On day three, 15 for each treatment, and so on.
Local government cartel operatives, local cops enforcing grossly immoral tyranny, they have names and those names have addresses within easy reach. They should get the Solzhenitsyn suggestion.
@Carl Jones
You hope the Chinese regime crushes these protests just because you “think” MI6 and the CIA are behind them????
I would hope that regardless who may behind them that they overthrow their government in order to give us in our MI6-CIA-WEF-prison nations of the West the incentive to do the same. My reading of historical events over the past 120 years is that the PRC is very much the prodigy of the Rothschild-Rockefeller international banking cartel which also was instrumental in getting the communist revolution in Russia off of the ground, and with the aid of its left-wing backed the communist infiltration and takeover of our own governments and most of our leading institutions. Their money-power and direction was also used for their right-wing exploits in the destruction of Iraq and Libya and the continued war against any resistance to their grasp in the ME, all of which evils most people in the West could care less about. This same international-banking-cartel vulture is also the mainstay of the UN Agendas, the WEF, and the Covid pandemic. It is highly doubtful that in their complete control of the UK and the US they would allow their MI6 or the CIA jackals to kick off any protests in their model nation of China- a regime so essential to their plans for global hegemony.
Some say “The TRUTH outs.” Your view, Carl Jones (November 28, 2022 at 9:06 am) could not be better diametrically opposed to an opinion piece just published by Jon Rappoport, who wrote the following.
“Suppose the idea of REVOLUTION instead of SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE now spreads from China to Western countries? When people who protest against the government in China can be tortured and killed, and yet they keep protesting, that tells you something big is happening now.”
I suppose, Mr. Jones, you will say protestors might well be tortured and killed in other countries within which Western “intelligence agencies” succeeded in fomenting dissent, bubbled to the surface as “mass protests” with mass-produced signs and colorful streamers. Iran, perhaps, or Sri Lanka.
The recent and flattering praise of Klaus Schwaub for (if not actually in) China might give one pause before leaping into such a debate.
Jon Rappoport wrote also:
“The predators at the WEF, Gates Foundation, the WHO, who keep bloviating praise for the Chinese regime and its COVID lockdowns and surveillance and social credit score policies—
“Those Globalist predators suddenly have something else to think about: the possibility of revolution in China against the government and against those policies.
“We need to show overwhelming solidarity with the Chinese protestors.
“Of course, the Chinese regime has the firepower to put down these protests. But, against a background of brutal long lockdowns, and with many of their citizens beyond all patience and on the edge of rebellion, is firepower a good idea?
“This sets up a rock and hard place for the Chinese government.
“Media reports indicate that in some local areas, officials are starting to lift COVID restrictions—hoping to avoid wider protests.
“Certainly, Xi Jinping is starting to feel the heat. If high officials in the regime perceive he can’t handle the situation, they’re going to consider looking around for another leader. That could spell destabilization.
“Regardless, it’s clear the vaunted and highly praised Chinese model of ‘dealing with COVID’ is failing.
“The past two years of elite Western bullshit about China’s unqualified success is being exposed as sheer propaganda and fraud.
“Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab, two of China’s strongest supporters, are suddenly looking like morons.”
If, as you suggest, Mr. Jones, this is all the work and machinations of MI6 and the CIA, well, then I sure hope their level of competence in producing unintended consequences helpful for the rest of humanity continues unabated!
The thing about protests is that they eventually fizzle out and the powers that be continue their agenda. This world is hosed. The Zio-Khazarians have installed ALL their people into the highest offices in the world and SKYNET IS LIVE. You are all going to die. Have as much sex as you can, eat as much good food as you can, enjoy what’s left of your physical existence, cause when the Bolsheviks hit the streets, they are going to bash your brains in, flay you alive, cut your damn heads off, and you poor females, OMG, you have no idea what’s coming for YOU. We have lost this war. Republicans are all part of the game, paid resistance, all fake. WHILE WE HAD FUN AND LIVED HYPNOTIZED LIVES OF IMAGINED FREEDOM, THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE WAS WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO WIN THIS WAR. It’s closing in on us from all sides. Can you feel it ? NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU. YOUR SCREAMS OF TERROR WILL BE HEARD BY ALL.
Sounds like the West is activating it’s ‘regime change’ agents in China. They just tried it in Iran and failed.
Yaawnnn.
Simply more bullshit..
This is simply a psy-opp..the gullible global masses will get even more false hope , that Chinese citizens will conquer their oppressors, and we will be inspired to do the same.
IMHO, China will get brutal, as is typical (((Communist))), and as part of the plan..demoralize citizens elsewhere, as their own gov’ts rub their hands in glee with the message sent.
Boulder: that depends, it depends on what the Chinese regime is dealing with.
Cases have doubled in one week, UK cases have doubled, although I’d be inclined to completely disregard all UK data, but the Chinese protests across China, sync well with specific areas of infection, not!
Me, I think China and others are under renewed MI6 bioweapons attack.
This would be prime time to invade Taiwan after 2 weeks of relentless missile bombardment.
The Chinese are patient, like the Russians, but there are good times to assert yourself, and now would be a good time to do it, just as Russia ia about to do in UKraine.
But like I say, and I’ve said it from the start, we simply don’t know what the Chinese regime is dealing with. We tend, through propaganda, to think the Chinese are heartless, so why are they so concerned about whatever they are dealing with? If it kills the old and sick, losing 20 million is nothing. So I would suggest it’s worse than we understand.
The Bastards are firing into the crowds. It shows their desperation.
The people have the right of freedom of movement after all they have been locked-down in this Covid scharade for more than a 100 days and many have starved to death.
See the ultimate desperation of people in this video where soooo many just jump-off from high-rise buildings into oblivion.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gv9kvhHzlyZT/
Those at the top, whether in China, India, Iran and elsewhere do not give a rat’s ass about We The People and although they may confront each other publicly they are mates in private, we shouldn’t be fooled by their political diametrics. They are all in it for self-gain not to serve anyone else least of all the job they were hired into and the one that pays for their upkeep.
Let China fall and its acolytes placed in strategic positions the World over and let the Whore of Babylon West fall too. Their pimps in the greater Middle East and their street-shitters in the subcontinent will fall too.
Only then can people everywhere let China take the lead.
@Anonymous on November 28, 2022 at 4:39 pm
The West, Iran, North Korea, Israel, The Arabs and even India all work in cohoot.
If you can remember soon after the Shah of Iran was deposed the black-clad Mullahs of Iran were working WITH the US, whom they publicly denounced as The Great Satan, and were getting their weapons thru Poindexter.
Then with the US Embassy fiasco in Tehran where so many embassy staff were held up by the Islamic Republic, soon after President Jimmy Carter lost his presidential bid then the staff were released. The people at the top are all one people with different uniforms.
Remember that any public animosity between the US and Iran translates into higher fuel prices which welcomed by all the antagonists so stop being fooled thinking they share different viewpoints.
I would be the least surprised if uprisings like those in Iran are enacted by both Iran AND the US working together to get rid of those posing a threat to the infernal black-clad theocrats. In other words they pre-empt genuine grass-roots movements of change in the Middle East, China, … you name it where oppression rules.
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Carl, I for one have a really hard time believing the entire Iranian football team are (cia) agents or under (cia) control, rather they’re uber-patriots risking their lives because they love Iran’s people, their people, and want to be free-er than how they currently live under the thumb of the Theocrats.
@Carl Jones,
you are seeing the truth clearly, i don’t have much original thought to add.
Chinese leadership is patriotic and nationalist first and foremost and they perceive clearly the existential (1 billion lives at risk) threat of a bioweapon specifically designed to target the Han people with extreme prejudice.
It is the secret war that the masses cannot be told about because it would cause an apocalyptic freakout, as bad or worse than the war itself.
Ditto for Russia and Iran, both countries with distinct dominant genome.
Or should Xi and his allies and brothers trust the Jew? Why not, nice Jew, kind, suffering Jew, light (Lucifer, the lightbearer, the Morning Star) unto the world.
At least some chinese people understand that they are victims of a repressive regime (keep in mind that no revolution can be successful without outside help). The submissive chinese will bow and scrape to the point of damage to their families. That is the line that they will not allow to be crossed. That is where generational altruism will find expression against their government.
The successful duping of the western world has no such line in the sand. The destruction of (especially white) family structure has been largely successful. Intergenerational conflict has followed and is inflamed with the envy justified by apparent economic inequality. The continuing and utter lack of understanding about basic freedoms and the willingness to give them up at the first tingle of fear has already doomed younger westerners to a voluntary tyranny without any cultural basis to fall back on as an alternative to government control.
To the dude who claims Communist China should “crush” the CIA-led Chinese protests: you do know that it was the CIA and likely MI-6 as well that funded Mao’s Communists in the 40s to begin with! Why do you think the Republic of China folks led by Chaing Kai-Shek were forced to take over Taiwan? Because the US govt. refused to back them, that’s why! Do your homework, kiddo! (with “Chinese characteristics” no less…)…And you do know that the CIA, etc. fund both sides, correct? In other words, they’re also funding Xi’s communist govt…..
CNN really, so you all believe Western media. When I read real independent media I’ll believe it
hp: oh, feck me, we have a moron on the forum.
Carl Jones.
Cases you get through pcr-test.
Anyway, lockdown is not a good idea.
That is just terror.
The only reliable thing are symptoms, and that we have had for centrumets.
Next is overall death.
Maybe it is a reaction to the social credit system.
You don’t approve of that , do you?
@Carl Jones
Type in on a search engine, Mao’s jews. Communist China has been in thrall to ZOG since the beginning of the revolution.
Keeping ordinary people locked up for weeks on end for a virus with a survival rate of over 99% is sickening.
Are you really saying you would welcome living under their totalitarian system?
That their system works for the benefit of the Chinese people?
Governments worldwide are all part of a cosy clique. As George Carlin said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it.