Quick Glance: China's Deadly Fires Fuel Protests Against Xi's Covid Policies
- Travel restrictions and government restrictions on international journalists make it impossible to report on the protests.
- "We want freedom," they declared.
- For the most part, since Covid spread from Wuhan about three years ago, many Chinese have accepted severe regulations, including extensive travel restrictions, as a price for avoiding the widespread illness and death that the United States and other countries experienced.
- The Chinese authorities is likely to be concerned that photographs and footage of the Shanghai protests may spread over online control, inciting further upheaval.
Quick Glance: Protests in Shanghai, But Not Too Far
- Those protests were not aimed at overturning the Chinese Communist Party, but at press and other liberties within the framework of CCP administration.
- One significant takeaway from the protests is that Chinese citizens plainly do not believe the Chinese state media's coverage of the fire and its casualties.
- Nonetheless, the protests show that many Chinese feel people were trapped as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns.
- Dr. Miao Ying, a lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, has investigated the gap between belief and practice in China's middle classes.
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