{"id":1755244,"date":"2022-11-29T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755244"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:48:48","slug":"society-has-decided-not-to-be-silent-chinese-protesters-defy-regimes-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/society-has-decided-not-to-be-silent-chinese-protesters-defy-regimes-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Society Has Decided Not To Be Silent\u2019: Chinese Protesters Defy Regime\u2019s Crackdown"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fsociety-has-decided-not-to-be-silent-chinese-protesters-defy-regimes-crackdown%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=1755244&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>Chinese citizens persevered with mass protests even as their government cracked down on demonstrators, the <em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/29\/chinese-protesters-overturn-vehicle-and-trash-covid-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in Guangzhou began &#8220;jubilantly destroying&#8221; one of the regime&#8217;s COVID-19 testing sites, according to videos shared online. Meanwhile, &#8220;throngs of people filled the streets\u2014some waving white sheets of paper, the symbol of the protests.&#8221; Several protesters flipped over a van that appears connected to the testing site, a symbol of the Chinese Communist government&#8217;s draconian zero-COVID policy.<\/p>\n<p>In other cities, protesters gathered even though the regime dispatched huge numbers of police officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really scary,&#8221; said Philip Qin, a resident of Beijing, which last weekend saw some of the largest protests.<\/p>\n<p>All across China, protesters are demanding an end to the zero-COVID policy, which has caused years of lockdowns. Dozens of people <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/uyghur-activists-want-biden-admin-to-press-china-for-answers-on-deadly-building-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly died<\/a> in a burning apartment building that they were unable to escape\u00a0because of COVID-19 regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters have gone so far as to call for the resignation of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and the fall of the Chinese Communist Party, which the <em>Post<\/em> called &#8220;an unprecedented display of dissent.&#8221; Demonstrators in Shanghai chanted, &#8220;Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police have started <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/report-chinese-police-tracking-down-covid-protesters-after-days-of-unrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tracking down<\/a> anyone who might be involved in the protests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all desperately deleting our chat history,&#8221; one person who witnessed the protests in Beijing told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who now lives in exile, warned at a press conference that authorities will use &#8220;stronger force to violently suppress protesters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wang nevertheless expressed hope, saying, &#8220;This protest symbolizes the beginning of a new era in China \u2026 in which Chinese civil society has decided not to be silent and to confront tyranny.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese citizens persevered with mass protests even as their government cracked down on demonstrators, the New York Post reported Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018Society Has Decided Not To Be Silent\u2019: Chinese Protesters Defy Regime\u2019s Crackdown appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1755249,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1755244","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}