Protests Erupt in China, calling for Xi Jinping to step down

[Drongonia]

Wake up honey, new CIA op dropped

[Barbaria]

Shit. Tiananmen Square 2.0 here we come

No. The protests are probably going to be more like the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, just not on a nationwide level.

[Forsher]

STOP LYING.

If you actually believe this is true, it's so deadbrained I can't even imagine how you've come to this position.

look, you can just admit you didn't read any of my post and/or have no idea how natural selection works.

What you explained has nothing to do with the subject at hand.

[Parai Hambriven]

I agree about Russia, Belarus and Hong Kong.

But the events in Kazakhstan during January were not an attempt at revolution. It was a violent attempt to seize power. Police officers were decapitated.

what is a revolution, if not a violent attempt to seize power?

The use of the word "revolution" in the West has been seriously dulled down by calling literally every single minor social and political movement a "revolution".

[Bombadil]

It's odd, from reports seems it's not too big.. "In the early hours of Monday in Beijing, two groups of protesters totalling at least 1,000 people were gathered along the Chinese capital’s 3rd Ring Road near the Liangma River, refusing to disperse."

..however the videos I received this morning from friends in Beijing show something much larger.

As someone said, we don't know if this is the beginning, the middle or the end. I'll be interested to see if it lingers through the working week.

[Chong Qing]

No it is not. The CCP is taking it to an extreme, however, Zero-Covid is not a bad strategy. If it had been implemented worldwide when the pandemic first started, Covid would’ve been eradicated in less than a month. What’s much dumber is letting Covid spread.

Not to double post but didn't the CCP try to limit the spread of information about COVID when the first cases started popping up in Wuhan? I'm pretty sure the doctor that blew the whistle got detained (unfortunately he later died of COVID, ironically he was branded a hero)

Could be the local government being corrupt, I heard the more local levels of the Chinese government are notoriously corrupt

Ha,I want to know,how about that blew the whistle of your country？...

[Chong Qing]

I think this is nonsense,

[Chong Qing]

Gotta be pretty fucking brave to protest against the Chinese government.

Authoritarians never learn.
The great pyramids stand silent tribute to the narcissism of flesh and greed made God.
From the Q'in emperor to the CCP, China has been a continuous unheeded lesson in how little there is to show for the human condition at large in the arbitrary consolidation of peoples to satisfy the egos of an obsessive compulsive crisis management team.
That is fascism in a nutshell, really.
Make the prison as atrocious or comfortable as you like, when people understand how little of their own world belongs to them, there does not seem that much to lose by standing in front of a tank to make a larger point.

We Chinese are not as you think, I think.

[Picairn]

I think this is nonsense,

Why?

[Chong Qing]

I think this is nonsense,

Why?

Because, in fact, the scale of the protest is not large, and it is only a call for the government to rectify according to law caused by some individuals (note: it is individuals) to bid up the price of vegetables (and the government's urban management department has participated in the management)

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Why?

Because, in fact, the scale of the protest is not large, and it is only a call for the government to rectify according to law caused by some individuals (note: it is individuals) to bid up the price of vegetables (and the government's urban management department has participated in the management)

my brother in christ what in the name of allah are you talking about?

[Chong Qing]

I think this is nonsense,

Why?

There is no protest about the epidemic situation here, because even if it rains, we Wuhan people will go to do nucleic acid testing in the rain.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Why?

There is no protest about the epidemic situation here, because even if it rains, we Wuhan people will go to do nucleic acid testing in the rain.

esclaves

[Chong Qing]

There is no protest about the epidemic situation here, because even if it rains, we Wuhan people will go to do nucleic acid testing in the rain.

esclaves

What do you want to express?

[Bombadil]

Why?

Because, in fact, the scale of the protest is not large, and it is only a call for the government to rectify according to law caused by some individuals (note: it is individuals) to bid up the price of vegetables (and the government's urban management department has participated in the management)

Eh..?

Normally protests in China are localised and to do with some SOE not paying workers, or some local mismanagement.. but this is across several cities and all are seemingly in tune with each other.

It's really hard to tell what's going on, as I said reports say it's just a thousand or so people in Beijing but I've videos of the 3rd ring road blocked with cars tooting horns and cheering people.

The use of blank sheets of paper is a symbol out of HK, though it originates from an old Soviet joke about a man holding a blank piece of paper and getting arrested because the police say 'we know what you want to say'. And the crowds are specifically saying that, 'you know what we want to say'.

This comes a few weeks after banners were placed on bridges on the 3rd ring road calling for the same, down with Xi Jinping, down with the CCP.

There's very real anger in China, these people are brave to come on the streets, but I fear they'll be silently arrested post-demonstration, away from the public eye, and these protests will be suppressed.

[Diarcesia]

I agree about Russia, Belarus and Hong Kong.

But the events in Kazakhstan during January were not an attempt at revolution. It was a violent attempt to seize power. Police officers were decapitated.

what is a revolution, if not a violent attempt to seize power?

Hot take: They shouldn't be called revolutions unless it takes at least a year.

I wonder how will the protests evolve. Have a feeling it'll not amount to anything (in the short term) because China atm has a more cohesive government than Iran. That being said, it is unwise to tempt the Mandate of Heaven.

[Chong Qing]

Because, in fact, the scale of the protest is not large, and it is only a call for the government to rectify according to law caused by some individuals (note: it is individuals) to bid up the price of vegetables (and the government's urban management department has participated in the management)

Eh..?

Normally protests in China are localised and to do with some SOE not paying workers, or some local mismanagement.. but this is across several cities and all are seemingly in tune with each other.

It's really hard to tell what's going on, as I said reports say it's just a thousand or so people in Beijing but I've videos of the 3rd ring road blocked with cars tooting horns and cheering people.

The use of blank sheets of paper is a symbol out of HK, though it originates from an old Soviet joke about a man holding a blank piece of paper and getting arrested because the police say 'we know what you want to say'. And the crowds are specifically saying that, 'you know what we want to say'.

This comes a few weeks after banners were placed on bridges on the 3rd ring road calling for the same, down with Xi Jinping, down with the CCP.

There's very real anger in China, these people are brave to come on the streets, but I fear they'll be silently arrested post-demonstration, away from the public eye, and these protests will be suppressed.

Ah, so you mean that we Chinese can't afford to eat and are oppressed by landlords and rich people just like before the revolution?....

[Picairn]

Why?

There is no protest about the epidemic situation here, because even if it rains, we Wuhan people will go to do nucleic acid testing in the rain.

I think you're lying, anti-Covid protests are going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities right now.

[Bombadil]

Eh..?

Normally protests in China are localised and to do with some SOE not paying workers, or some local mismanagement.. but this is across several cities and all are seemingly in tune with each other.

It's really hard to tell what's going on, as I said reports say it's just a thousand or so people in Beijing but I've videos of the 3rd ring road blocked with cars tooting horns and cheering people.

The use of blank sheets of paper is a symbol out of HK, though it originates from an old Soviet joke about a man holding a blank piece of paper and getting arrested because the police say 'we know what you want to say'. And the crowds are specifically saying that, 'you know what we want to say'.

This comes a few weeks after banners were placed on bridges on the 3rd ring road calling for the same, down with Xi Jinping, down with the CCP.

There's very real anger in China, these people are brave to come on the streets, but I fear they'll be silently arrested post-demonstration, away from the public eye, and these protests will be suppressed.

Ah, so you mean that we Chinese can't afford to eat and are oppressed by landlords and rich people just like before the revolution?....

No, I'm saying they're sick of daily testing, random lockdowns.. after the fire in Urumqi there's a host of videos showing how fire escapes are locked in buildings across China where there's a lockdown. Especially having watched the World Cup, seeing people walking freely around without masks, add the fire, add the baby who died.. add the countless irrational miseries inflicted on people.. it adds up.

Chinese media have stopped showing World Cup crowds, but people aren't stupid.

[Thermodolia]

Shit. Tiananmen Square 2.0 here we come

No. The protests are probably going to be more like the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, just not on a nationwide level.

And thus will be put down like Tiananmen Square

[San Lumen]

There is no protest about the epidemic situation here, because even if it rains, we Wuhan people will go to do nucleic acid testing in the rain.

I think you're lying, anti-Covid protests are going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities right now.

which i think its great but I doubt it leads to any changes. The regime is too powerful and entrenched.

[Chong Qing]

There is no protest about the epidemic situation here, because even if it rains, we Wuhan people will go to do nucleic acid testing in the rain.

I think you're lying, anti-Covid protests are going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities right now.

I suggest you have a good look (this is Nanjing: https://live.baidu.com/m/media/pclive/p ... 7840344380 ）

[Bombadil]

I think you're lying, anti-Covid protests are going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities right now.

I suggest you have a good look (this is Nanjing: https://live.baidu.com/m/media/pclive/p ... 7840344380 ）

I suggest you have a look at this.. https://twitter.com/rfa_chinese/status/ ... 4986681344?

That’s just at Tsinghua, interestingly chanting 5 demands, reminiscent of HKs 5 demands, not one less. There were also protests at Beida university, and then the one reported at Liangmahe, which seems far more than just 1,000 people from what I'm seeing.

[Picairn]

I think you're lying, anti-Covid protests are going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities right now.

I suggest you have a good look (this is Nanjing: https://live.baidu.com/m/media/pclive/p ... 7840344380 ）

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/worl ... EBtTy7ly5Q
https://twitter.com/FridaGhitis/status/ ... R6tDA&s=19
https://twitter.com/whyyoutouzhele/stat ... EM9eQ&s=19

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

I think you're lying, anti-Covid protests are going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities right now.

I suggest you have a good look (this is Nanjing: https://live.baidu.com/m/media/pclive/p ... 7840344380 ）

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