{"id":1441519,"date":"2022-04-16T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441519"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:45:11","slug":"growing-defiance-of-chinas-coronavirus-restrictions-brings-wave-of-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/growing-defiance-of-chinas-coronavirus-restrictions-brings-wave-of-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Defiance of China\u2019s Coronavirus Restrictions Brings Wave of Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fgrowing-defiance-of-chinas-coronavirus-restrictions-brings-wave-of-arrests%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=1441519&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\"><span>Reuters on Friday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/growing-defiance-covid-curbs-china-brings-wave-arrests-2022-04-15\/\"><span>noted<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0the ostensible support of the Chinese public for draconian \u201czero-Covid\u201d policies \u201cseems to be wearing thin\u201d amid \u201cfood shortages, family separations, lost wages, and economic pain.\u201d Disobedience is on the rise, and so are arrests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Resistance is not only found in the nightmare city of Shanghai, coming up on four weeks of a devastating lockdown. Reuters found Chinese in other cities staging protests and getting arrested or otherwise punished for their defiance, as in the case of 37-year-old college student Sun Jian, expelled for marching around his Yantai campus with a placard that called for ending its lockdown.<\/span><\/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><span>\u201cThe trouble brought by the virus can\u2019t be compared with the disruption from some of the anti-Covid measures taken by our school,\u201d said Sun, whom the regime also blocked from using social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reuters <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/04\/14\/videos-shanghai-police-berate-abuse-desperate-citizens-under-lockdown\/\"><span>noted<\/span><\/a><span> videos<\/span><span> of locked-down citizens brawling with police or literally howling in desperation from their apartment balconies are becoming common fare on Chinese social media. These disgruntled citizens were met with a five-fold increase in police arrests, plus stern public warnings that violation of coronavirus protocols will be punished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Chinese public security reports, many of the arrests are for relatively minor infractions, such as failing to enter information into health tracking apps correctly, sneaking out of home quarantine, spreading \u201cdisinformation,\u201d or using \u201cinappropriate language\u201d with officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20592740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/wi\/afp\/08\/china-is-battling-biggest-spike-coronavirus-start-of-pandemic-afp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20592740 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/china-is-battling-biggest-spike-coronavirus-start-of-pandemic-afp-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A policeman wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks on a street during a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing\u2019an district in Shanghai on April 8, 2022. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Chinese censors are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-15\/shanghai-residents-clash-with-police-over-nearby-quarantine-site\"><span>moving<\/span><\/a><span> quickly<\/span><span> to block videos of major clashes between police and the public. The biggest street battles seem to involve residents of apartment buildings objecting when the authorities try converting them into quarantine centers. Shanghai has seen a few <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-04-11\/strict-shanghai-lockdown-causing-social-unrest\/100982312\"><span>scuffles<\/span><\/a><span> over its dwindling food supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another heavily <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-14\/elderly-shanghai-man-s-pleas-for-medical-help-censored-in-china\"><span>censored<\/span><\/a><span> viral post<\/span><span> on social media included an audio recording of an elderly Shanghai man in deteriorating health pleading with a local official for medicine, only to be told he would have to settle for \u201ctraditional Chinese medicine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Radio Free Asia<\/span><span> (RFA) on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/emigration-04142022145326.html\">reported<\/a> a growing number of Chinese are trying to flee the lockdowns by emigrating to other countries:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Keyword searches relating to emigration spiked more than 100-fold in recent days, according to publicly available data from the Baidu search engine for the week from March 28 to April 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Canada, the United States and Australia were the top three countries shown in such searches, with searches for immigration to Canada showing a 28-fold increase compared with the previous week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe number of immigration consultations has skyrocketed in the past few days,\u201d an employee who answered the phone at the Beijing-based immigration consultancy Qiaowai told RFA on Wednesday.\u00a0 \u201cWe are very busy every day, and waiting times are relatively long, because we don\u2019t have enough consultants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Interestingly, while a great many emigration inquiries are understandably coming from Shanghai, brisk business has been noticed from Beijing as well. This led observers of the Chinese political scene to conclude high-ranking Communist Party officials could be pulling strings to get out of the capital city before it locks down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>RFA quoted some Shanghai residents who said one of the most infamous practices from China\u2019s 2020 lockdowns is returning: people are getting physically sealed inside their homes by the authorities, with everything from tape on their doorways to barbed wire around their buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters on Friday noted\u00a0the ostensible support of the Chinese public for draconian \u201czero-Covid\u201d policies \u201cseems to be wearing thin\u201d amid \u201cfood shortages, family separations, lost wages, and economic pain.\u201d Disobedience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-1441519","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\/1441519","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441519\/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=1441519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}