{"id":1757649,"date":"2022-12-01T03:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757649"},"modified":"2022-12-01T03:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:17:35","slug":"chinas-paper-revolution-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-paper-revolution-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018Paper Revolution\u2019 Could Be The Beginning Of The End For Xi"},"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\">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%2Fchinas-paper-revolution-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-xi%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=1757649&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>When the Chinese people saw images of maskless fans enjoying the World Cup, they asked why the rest of the world had moved on while they were still cooped up in their tiny apartments like animals, bored and hungry (Chinese censors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-censors-maskless-crowd-footage-in-world-cup-broadcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> stopped showing images of fans during World Cup broadcasts).<\/p>\n<p>This is while something extraordinary is happening in China: Residents in multiple cities, at significant personal risk,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-protests-spread-over-governments-covid-restrictions-11669516403?mod=hp_lead_pos2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took to the streets<\/a> over the weekend to demand an end to the government\u2019s draconian \u201czero Covid\u201d policy. These protests have quickly spread nationwide and become venues for the Chinese people to express their dissatisfaction with China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping. Many protesters held blank sheets of paper as a symbol of lacking free speech under Beijing\u2019s censorship (hence, the nickname \u201cPaper Revolution\u201d). Some even openly called for Xi to resign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s most prominent concern has always been that a color revolution (a term that describes anti-government movements) might take place in China and topple his and the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) rule. Since coming to power in late 2012, Xi has built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2018\/02\/china-surveillance\/552203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a high-tech surveillance state<\/a> to monitor 1.4 billion Chinese people\u2019s thoughts and behaviors while <a href=\"https:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=Awrg0OOcXYZjrjIAvjBXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny\/RV=2\/RE=1669778972\/RO=10\/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsweek.com%2fxi-crackdown-dissident-echo-mao-repression-439163\/RK=2\/RS=P_U1Zg6.Sh5ekkhQ3gbjH5kwlRA-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruthlessly suppressing dissenters.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s intimidation seemed to have worked. While some small and isolated protests, mostly over environmental issues or economic grievances, took place in China during the first 10 years of his rule, China hadn\u2019t experienced any large-scale protests nationwide that directly challenged the CCP and Xi personally until now. Xi has no one but himself to blame for sparking China\u2019s \u201cPaper Revolution\u201d and jeopardizing his third term and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Series of Tragedies Under Lockdown <\/p>\n<p>A deadly fire in a high-rise apartment in Xinjiang initially triggered the weekend protests. In the same region, the CCP has been accused of subjecting millions of Uyghur Muslims to genocide.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TGTM_Official\/status\/1596170716835373057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Videos<\/a>\u00a0spread of victims desperately crying for help from the apartment building, but people could not escape nor rescuers enter because the entrance was sealed, a common lockdown measure imposed by local authorities. It took fire trucks more than two hours to reach the burning building, again, due to the barriers set up by local authorities to keep people confined inside their apartments. Since the early days of the Covid outbreak in 2020, Chinese authorities have routinely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallStreetSilv\/status\/1596865896240537601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sealed the front entrances of entire apartment buildings<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/shanghais-zero-covid-lockdown-gets-metal-barriers-so-disrespectful-1700392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barricaded<\/a>\u00a0residential communities to enforce lockdowns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deadly fire in Xinjiang is sadly one of a long string of tragedies caused by the government\u2019s inhumane Covid restrictions. Several other incidents have drawn national outcries this year alone. In January, a woman who was eight months pregnant in Xi\u2019an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/xian-lockdown-pregnant-woman-loses-baby-after-hospital-denies-her-entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost her baby<\/a>\u00a0after local hospitals refused to treat her because her Covid test had expired by a few hours.\u00a0During Shanghai lockdowns between March and April, children as young as newborns\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-shanghai-strict-covid-rules-separate-children-from-parents-11648961849?mod=series_shanghaicovid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were taken away<\/a>\u00a0from their parents and committed to poorly run government daycare facilities. Residents also experienced severe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/10\/shanghai-protests-food-shortages-during-covid-19-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">food shortages<\/a>\u00a0unheard of since the Great Chinese famine (1959-1961).<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a woman in Beijing, the capital of China, who was welded into her apartment for days,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have quickly spread nationwide as the Chinese people express their dissatisfaction with China&#8217;s leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1757652,"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-1757649","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\/1757649","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\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}