{"id":1753808,"date":"2022-11-28T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753808"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:19:19","slug":"white-house-responds-after-protests-erupt-across-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-responds-after-protests-erupt-across-china\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Responds After Protests Erupt Across China"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fwhite-house-responds-after-protests-erupt-across-china%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=1753808&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a>\u2019s COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said that the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) \u201czero-COVID\u201d strategy is unrealistic amid the largest protests across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of demonstrators came out in Shanghai, Beijing, Urumqi, Wuhan, Chengdu, and other major Chinese cities over CCP-mandated lockdowns, mandatory COVID-19 tests, mask orders, and other rules. The CCP officially has pursued a \u201czero-COVID\u201d policy for months and has shown no signs of stopping.<\/p>\n<p>In some areas, protesters chanted:\u00a0\u201cXi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!\u201d Police in Shanghai, Beijing, and other major cities were called in to break up the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4888007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/27\/GettyImages-1245143685-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4888007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1245143685-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"China protest\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4888007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1245143685-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"China protest\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> People show blank papers as a way to protest, gather on a street in Shanghai on Nov. 27, 2022, where protests against China\u2019s zero-COVID policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (Hector Retamal\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be very, very difficult for China to be able to contain this through their zero-COVID strategy,\u201d Jha, who was a Newsmax contributor before he was named to his White House position, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-11-27-22-rep-michael-mccaul\/story?id=94000797\">told<\/a> ABC News on Sunday in response to the unprecedented protests in China. \u201cWe don\u2019t think that\u2019s realistic, certainly not realistic for the American people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jha then claimed that vaccinations \u201cparticularly for the elderly\u201d are the \u201cpath out of this virus.\u201d He continued, \u201cLockdown and zero-COVID is going to be very difficult to sustain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Monday in Beijing, two groups of protesters totaling at least 1,000 people were gathered along the Chinese capital\u2019s 3rd Ring Road near the Liangma River, refusing to disperse, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want masks, we want freedom. We don\u2019t want COVID tests, we want freedom,\u201d one of the groups chanted.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a vigil in Shanghai for victims of the apartment fire turned into a protest against COVID curbs, with the crowd chanting calls for lockdowns to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDown with the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d one large group chanted in the early hours of Sunday, according to witnesses and videos posted on social media, in a rare public protest against the CCP.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4888020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/27\/GettyImages-1245143371-1200x798.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4888020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1245143371-600x399-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4888020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1245143371-600x399-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Police and people are seen during some clashes in Shanghai on Nov. 27, 2022, where protests against China\u2019s zero-COVID policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (Hector Retamal\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>More Protests<\/h2>\n<p>In the central city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began three years ago, videos on social media showed hundreds of residents take to the streets, smashing through metal barricades, overturning COVID-19 testing tents, and demanding an end to lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>And on Sunday, a large crowd gathered in the southwestern metropolis of Chengdu, according to videos on social media, where they also held up blank sheets of paper and chanted against Xi, who has scrapped presidential term limits.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Rammeloo, a journalist for the Dutch Fidelity who was at a Chinese protest site, stated that she\u2019s \u201cnever seen anything like this\u201d in the 10 years of her reporting inside China. There were more than 1,000 protesters in the early morning on Nov. 27, she estimated.<\/p>\n<p>And one Western academic, David Moser, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david__moser\/status\/1596519192198406144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1596519192198406144%7Ctwgr%5Eedc8026e8f508a944fc4e1f34cd0f6e3f2c3e4ca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fzero-tolerance-chinese-lockdown-protests-intensify-rare-display-defiance\">noted<\/a> on Twitter: \u201cI\u2019ve lived in China for 30 years, and I\u2019ve never seen such a brazenly open and sustained expression of rage against the PRC govt. WeChat is exploding with protest videos and furious vitriol, and civil disobedience is becoming rampant. This is a serious test of CCP governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one likes the CCP or Xi Jinping,\u201d a Shanghai resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/protests-in-shanghai-and-beijing-as-anger-over-chinas-covid-19-curbs-mounts_4887874.html\">told<\/a> The Epoch Times this weekend, adding that Chinese people are \u201cfed up\u201d with the draconian CCP policies around COVID-19. They noted that the economy is being hit hard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4882440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/23\/Protest-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4882440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Protest-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4882440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Protest-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Fresh unrest erupted at Foxconn\u2019s plant in Zhengzhou, China, on Nov. 23, 2022. (Screenshot of Stephen McDonell\u2019s Twitter account via The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll sectors are suffering. We need to feed ourselves, to support our family. With no income, how could we survive?\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<p>Users of the Chinese social media platform Weibo left new comments under the last post by Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who officials claim died from COVID-19 in early 2020. Li\u2019s death sparked widespread anger at CCP officials who were accused of preventing him from publicizing the initial outbreak in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, protests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/violent-protests-erupt-at-largest-apple-iphone-factory-in-china_4882238.html\">occurred<\/a> at China\u2019s largest iPhone assembly factory as workers were seen confronting police in riot gear. Video footage published online showed workers squaring off with local authorities at the Zhangzhou Foxconn campus.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House\u2019s COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said that the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) \u201czero-COVID\u201d strategy is unrealistic amid the largest protests across China in decades.Thousands of demonstrators came<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753808","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}