{"id":1428533,"date":"2022-04-11T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1428533"},"modified":"2022-04-11T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:45:49","slug":"videos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/videos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Shanghai Residents Trapped in Lockdown Scream from Their Windows, Fight over Limited Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideos-shanghai-residents-trapped-in-lockdown-scream-from-their-windows-fight-over-limited-food%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1428533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai \u2013 and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo \u2013 show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown leaves the heart of China\u2019s economy with rotting food and a lack of basic necessities.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the videos surfacing on Weibo, China\u2019s most popular micro-blogging platform, cannot be independently verified and disappear shortly after they appear, but translators outside of the country have saved and circulated them, painting a picture of a growing catastrophe alongside anonymous warnings from farms and food distributors that their supplies are rotting while people fear starvation because the Communist Party will not allow enough people to work to distribute the food.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The videos follow reports that Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/04\/china-sends-military-shanghai-separates-children-parents-coronavirus\/\">deployed<\/a> the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) to patrol the city and keep people locked in their homes at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party announced it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/29\/china-puts-shanghai-most-stringent-antivirus-measures-ever\/\">impose<\/a>\u00a0its \u201cmost stringent antivirus measures ever\u201d\u00a0on its largest city in late March, allegedly necessary to contain the highly infectious omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/29\/china-shanghai-is-too-wealthy-to-suffer-wuhan-style-lockdown\/\">hints<\/a> in state media outlets that Beijing would not continue to impose its radical, mass house arrest policy in Shanghai due to the economic significance of the city, followed by condemnation of local officials for not acting to lock down the city sooner \u2013 an indication of discord between dictator Xi Jinping and his top officials in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20610830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239680668.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A lone officer wearing personal protective gear walks on a street during the second stage of a Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai on April 2, 2022. (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEver since epidemic prevention and control became the norm, General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally directed the deployment of epidemic prevention and control work,\u201d the state-run Xinhua news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/30\/chinese-media-contradicts-itself-insists-xi-jinping-wants-total-lockdown-strategy\/\">claimed<\/a> in late March, \u201cand established the general strategy to prevent imported cases and internal rebounds and the general policy of dynamic zero-Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese coronavirus first began infecting people in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, prompting a similarly brutal government lockdown in that city, but only after the mayor had allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/27\/wuhan-mayor-admits-five-million-left-before-virus-lockdown\/\">5 million<\/a> people to leave and spread the disease around the world, causing the currently ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the harrowing scenes that appear to show foot riots and trapped residents screaming out their windows in Shanghai, videos and testimony emerged last week that China is hauling untold numbers of Shanghai residents to poorly managed quarantine camps, separating parents from young children who test positive. Videos allegedly from the facilities also surfacing on Chinese social media showed multiple infants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/04\/china-sends-military-shanghai-separates-children-parents-coronavirus\/\">tossed<\/a> into small cribs and alongside toddlers, all with very minimal supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-04-11\/strict-shanghai-lockdown-causing-social-unrest\/100982312\">reproduced<\/a> several videos from Shanghai social media on Monday appearing to show screaming from high-rise apartment buildings. One video, which Breitbart News could not independently verify, appeared to show a mob of people shouting \u201chand out the supplies!\u201d referring to food, and attacking police in front of an apartment complex in the Jiuting area of Shanghai.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4e0a\u6d77\u4e5d\u4ead\u5c0f\u533a\u5c45\u6c11\u6ca1\u5403\u7684\uff0c\u8d77\u4e8b\u4e86\uff0c\u8ddf\u8d76\u6765\u9547\u538b\u7684\u8b66\u5bdf\u6253\u4e86\u8d77\u6765\u3002\u997f\u574f\u7684\u4e0a\u6d77\u4eba\u6c11\u4e5f\u662f\u6562\u6253\u8b66\u5bdf\u7684\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zk6msLHqgf\">pic.twitter.com\/zk6msLHqgf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u65b9\u821f\u5b50 (@fangshimin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fangshimin\/status\/1512519653309833217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Australia\u2019s News.com.au similarly compiled several videos from Chinese social media. One appears to show a desperate crowd fighting over boxes of basic supplies; another shows a large crowd confronting Communist Party officers in blue hazmat suits, apparently trying to break through a cordon seeking food and supplies.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Multiple videos showing simply darkened apartment buildings at night, but recording the sound of screaming from the individual units visible, have also appeared on Weibo and other state media outlets. In one particularly harrowing video sourced from Weibo, a government drone allegedly flies overhead attempting to subdue the screaming and, in some cases, singing. Breitbart News could not independently verify the authenticity of the videos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As seen on Weibo: Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing &#038; protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: \u201cPlease comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul\u2019s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ZTc8fznaV\">https:\/\/t.co\/0ZTc8fznaV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAnEGOlBIh\">pic.twitter.com\/pAnEGOlBIh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alice Su (@aliceysu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliceysu\/status\/1511558828802068481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What the?? This video taken yesterday in Shanghai, China, by the father of a close friend of mine. She verified its authenticity: People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iHGOO8D8Cz\">pic.twitter.com\/iHGOO8D8Cz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Madrid \u270c\ud83c\udffc (@patrickmadrid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickmadrid\/status\/1512600420610363394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reports from Shanghai last week indicated similar shouting in response to a visit from Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, one of dictator Xi Jinping\u2019s closest Politburo members who has taken on a role of administering lockdowns in major cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Sun Chunlan, a vice premier of the Chinese regime, visited Shanghai earlier this week, where tens of millions are under [Chinese coronavirus] lockdown, she was greeted by residents shouting from their apartment windows: \u2018There is no food left!\u2019 and \u2018We are starving to death!,&#8217;\u201d the Epoch Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/we-are-starving-to-death-shanghai-residents-under-lockdown-shout-at-visiting-vice-premier_4393493.html\">reported<\/a>. The incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/03\/06\/china-wuhan-could-see-no-more-fresh-coronavirus-infections-by-end-of-march\/\">recalled<\/a> a similar one in Wuhan in March 2020, when locked down residents heckled Sun from their windows as she walked the empty streets of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Also indicating widespread inability to contain Shanghai\u2019s population of 26 million people are videos showing government officials beating civilians in the street. The videos are not dated and, once again, unverified, but international news outlets have confirmed they originated in Shanghai during the current lockdown.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Reports citing farmers near the metropolis indicate that Shanghai is not running out of food, but the government has failed to implement a competent distribution mechanism and lacks the manpower to ensure food deliveries, given that the vast majority of city residents are banned from leaving their homes indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know folks downtown need their food. We have it here, but we can\u2019t get it out,\u201d a farmer identified only as \u201cMr. Yuan\u201d told the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em>. \u201cSome volunteers at checkpoints wouldn\u2019t even recognize our road permits and wouldn\u2019t let us pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The few who have received vegetable shipments have shared images showing the produce wilting or rotting, a sign that it had taken days, if not weeks, for the government to get the food to its intended recipients since procuring it.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Communist officials have attempted to insist publicly that Shanghai does not have a food shortage problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShanghai has sufficient reserves of supplies such as rice and meat, and additional food supplies could be transported from other regions when there\u2019s a need,\u201d Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Tong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/09\/shanghai-coronavirus-lockdown-causing-food-shortages-even-for-the-rich\/\">said<\/a> last Thursday, according to the government newspaper\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em>. \u201cSupermarkets and vegetable farms can\u2019t operate normally and there has been reduced delivery capacity of e-commerce platforms due to epidemic prevention, leading challenges in distribution and deliveries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remark appeared to be an indictment of government operations and belying increasingly visible tension between Shanghai and Beijing. Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/06\/xi-jinpings-top-henchwoman-scolds-shanghai-to-adopt-a-stricter-attitude-on-coronavirus\/\">dispatched<\/a> Sun Chunlan to Shanghai last week to ensure that local officials were not defying Xi\u2019s orders to fully implement a lockdown there, even in its most lucrative business sectors. Meeting with local leaders, Sun \u201curged\u00a0the city to adopt stricter attitude, more thorough measures, and swifter actions, to ratchet up building of makeshift hospitals, expand isolation venues, and strictly follow guidelines,\u201d according to the\u00a0<em>Global Times.<\/em><br \/>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> notably credited Sun with chastizing Shanghai officials to work harder to \u201cplug loopholes, guarantee people\u2019s life necessities and medical needs, and ensure smooth operation of ports and the supply chain industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649240693212000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2G1_7aOrrFB8JlYvlf1xV8\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649240693212000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3KS-3uKdKCZwSOvHwnFV6G\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai \u2013 and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo \u2013 show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}