Protests in China over President Xi Jinping’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 measures have intensified
- Protests have spread from Beijing and the far western Xinjiang region to several other major cities, including Wuhan, Shanghai, and the eastern city of Nanjing, according to video and photos circulating on social media.
- The protests are a rare display from a typically compliant citizenry, who know that crackdowns on dissent have intensified over the past decade.
Protests in China are not rare. What is rare are multiple protests over the same issue, at the same time, across the country.
- One student who saw the Tsinghua protest described to Reuters feeling taken aback by the protest at one of China's most elite universities, and Xi's alma mater.
Anti-lockdown protests are spreading to more and more cities in China
- In some areas of the country witnesses gave accounts of police violence, with one protester telling AP that one of his friends had been beaten by police, while two others were pepper sprayed.
- Analysts say the government appears to have drastically underestimated growing discontent towards the zero-Covid approach, a policy inextricably linked to Xi Jinping.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 pandemic began
- Taylor Lorenz is cheering China's zero-covid policy
- Lorenz just out here cheerleading China's COVID policy, while people in their apartments lockdown zero covid policy.
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