China Explodes … But Now What? By James Reed
In general, the Western mainstream media are supportive of the wave of protests now rocking China, and the widespread ownership of mobile phones and the internet has made it difficult to suppress news getting out. Hence the extraordinary videos of white clad CCP goons, beating up citizens, the next level up from what happened across the West with lockdown protests. But, the call has come for god emperor Xi to resign, but that is just not going to happen. Expect the tanks to line the streets soon, as the CCP does not mess around and will kill whoever it takes to maintain its totalitarianism. The party of Mao said that millions of Chinese dead are nothing, as the Cultural Revolution showed. Still our prayers are for the Chinese freedom fighters.
The Covid lockdowns led to this, with people locked in an apartment that caught fire, burning to death. The coverage from a Covid perspective in the West is that China did not use the Pfizer vax, and only 40 percent of the over 80-year old’s have had China’s own communist vax. So, they see a new wave of Covid sweeping the country, with yet another round of lockdowns. No doubt the protests will spread infections. While the mild Omicron variants should be left to infect and creat herd immunity, this will not be allowed by the CCP, so we can expect massive trade problems, as vital goods, like medicines, may become in short supply, due to globalism putting all the eggs in the one basket. To bad when the basket is stepped on by a Covid elephant.
“Protesters thronged the streets of cities across China over the weekend – defying a brutal crackdown from the Communist regime – to demand an end to coronavirus lockdowns and the resignation of dictator Xi Jinping.
The protests quickly grew to astonishing size after an apartment building fire killed 10 people in Urumqi, the locked-down capital of occupied East Turkistan, where China is currently committing genocide against the indigenous Uyghur Muslims of the region.
Chinese Communist Party censors were unable to suppress the blizzard of smartphone videos flooding social media, depicting incredible acts of defiance against Xi’s tyranny:
Huge crowds packed the streets even in the tightly-controlled capital city of Beijing:
Protesters in the city of Guangzhou lined the streets with tents because they assumed the regime would use its dystopian “health code software” to lock them out of their homes as punishment:
Protesters fought back against the bizarre squads of hazmat-suited police dispatched to clear the streets:
Beijing police mustered enough force to clear demonstrators out of Beijing’s financial district, using pepper spray and viciously beating recalcitrant citizens – but hundreds of people returned to the very same spot a few hours later.
The demonstrators marched in phalanxes with their phones held aloft like weapons, signaling the regime that it could not hope to suppress the tidal wave of information flowing to the outside world:
Another popular protest accessory is a blank sheet of paper, a symbol of mute defiance that grew popular during the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests of 2019 after the Beijing-controlled government systematically made every protest slogan illegal. Holding up a blank paper or placard calls attention to how China’s government silences its people, and also is a means of vexing the authorities because the blank pages contain no words or images that would justify arrest even under China’s totalitarian speech codes
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