{"id":1755322,"date":"2022-11-29T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755322"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:33:32","slug":"after-3-years-and-deaths-by-despots-chinese-protesters-have-zero-tolerance-for-xis-zero-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-3-years-and-deaths-by-despots-chinese-protesters-have-zero-tolerance-for-xis-zero-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"After 3 Years And Deaths By Despots, Chinese Protesters Have Zero Tolerance For Xi\u2019s \u2018Zero Covid\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fafter-3-years-and-deaths-by-despots-chinese-protesters-have-zero-tolerance-for-xis-zero-covid%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=1755322&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>From Beijing to Shanghai, demonstrations erupted in major cities across China over the weekend, with protesters voicing their dissatisfaction with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) draconian \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/16\/communist-china-doubles-down-on-impossible-zero-covid-benchmark-to-control-citizens-with-brutal-lockdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">zero Covid<\/a>\u201d policies. The protests mark a rare occurrence in a nation where basic civil rights are routinely suppressed by China\u2019s authoritarian government. <\/p>\n<p>The protests erupted after the deaths of 10 people in an apartment building fire in the city of Urumqi, the capital of the western region of China known as Xinjiang. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/g1anK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, it took authorities three hours to fully extinguish the flames, leading many on Chinese social media to criticize the CCP\u2019s \u201czero Covid\u201d approach and citizens throughout Xinjiang to take to the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash to the government\u2019s handling of the incident spread throughout the country, leading to protests in some of China\u2019s biggest population hubs. In the capital of Beijing, residents generated multiple, small-scale protests throughout the city on Saturday, with participants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/huge-covid-protests-erupt-chinas-xinjiang-after-deadly-fire-2022-11-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> shouting phrases such as \u201cEnd the lockdown.\u201d Larger demonstrations against the CCP\u2019s \u201czero Covid\u201d strategy were also seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/china-protests-shanghai-beijing-covid-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shanghai<\/a>, where citizens with candles and flowers called for Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and the ruling CCP to \u201cstep down\u201d from leadership and for a reversal of the city\u2019s heavy-handed Covid restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>Other Chinese cities that have reportedly experienced protests include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/china-protests-shanghai-beijing-covid-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nanjing, Guangzhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2022\/11\/28\/2003789729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xian, and Wuhan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people have been languishing under Covid Zero policies \u2026 for almost three years now and they\u2019re tired of it,\u201d Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute and a notable authority on Chinese affairs, told The Federalist. \u201cThey\u2019re also suffering because the promise of the Chinese Communist Party, that China was going to be in the first rank of nations and that people in China were going to enjoy a standard of living equivalent to what we enjoy in the United States and the West, has turned out to be false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide protests have since been collectively called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/china-white-blank-paper-a4-revolution-covid-protests-1762736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White Paper Revolution<\/a>,\u201d in reference to the blank sheets of white paper being used as a symbol of defiance by many of the gatherings\u2019 participants.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crowd of at least 100 making its way to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sunday night, chanting, \u201cWe want universal values,\u201d \u201cWe want freedom, equality, democracy, rule of law,\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t want dictatorship,\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t want personality cult.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JSW7OHMIAG\">pic.twitter.com\/JSW7OHMIAG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simina Mistreanu (@SiminaMistreanu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SiminaMistreanu\/status\/1596912559399268353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Many Chinese youths are notably participating in the demonstrations. On Sunday, for instance, hundreds of students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2022\/11\/28\/2003789729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rallied<\/a> at Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua University, singing the Chinese national anthem and chanting phrases such as, \u201cFreedom will prevail,\u201d and, \u201cNo to lockdowns, we want freedom.\u201d Student protests have also been reported at numerous other universities throughout China.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mosher, this stems from a growing view among Chinese youths that life under an increasingly dictatorial Xi, combined with accretive economic challenges (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/china-s-youth-unemployment-nearly-20-\/6715736.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high unemployment<\/a>), does not bode well for their future prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chants range all the way from \u2018End Covid\u2019 to \u2018Get rid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;These people have been languishing under Covid Zero policies &#8230; for almost three years now and they&#8217;re tired of it.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1755325,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1755322","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}