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That was in beijing. this footage is shanghai. was beaten by police and held for several hours. call the consulate now! there were also protests in chengdu, xi'an, wuhan and urumqi, where the first protest was seen. and there have been rare calls for the president to stand down. chanting these protesters are saying, "down with the chinese communist party! down with xijinping!" now, localised protests aren't uncommon in china, widespread ones are. but as the world has opened up after the pandemic, mass testing, quarantines and lockdowns are all still used in china. and when ten people died in a...

Few targeting the central government, and just basically nothing targeting the regime itself, saying that president xi or the ccp should step down. so this is why we have some comparisons now with 1989. there are a couple of facts i think that are causing this right now — as your introduction said, a lot of it is frustration with zero—covid, and part of it is simply that xijinping gota and part of it is simply that xijinping got a third term, which explains why some of these frustrations have been at these frustrations have been at the regime itself. in a couple other things — we had a l...

By a deadly fire in the western region of xinjiang last week, ten people died, and some blame strict lockdown rules for delaying efforts to rescue them. many people are angry at president xi's zero—covid approach. millions have been affected by nearly three years of mass testing, quarantines and snap lockdowns. the police have largely allowed the rallies to continue, but in shanghai officers arrested several people and cordoned off streets on sunday. frank tsai is the founder of china crossroads, a forum which organises public lectures in china — most recently about covid. he says the scal...

Backgrounds, all become brackets are all fed up in the same way. so we see these happening simultaneously in multiple cities was quite unprecedented. some dared to openly call for xi jinping to step down. that is unheard of in china. this swell of anger was triggered by a deadly apartment fire. fire crews three hours to put the flames out. we saw the videos emerging of candlelight vigils and the shows of frustration. because when we're talking about zero covid here, jose, we are talking about restrictions that control every aspect of daily life. there is this sprawling system of testing and qu...

The bbc that they question whether or not these people were able to leave the building, and many for example relying on chats from the government to give themselves security that they were able to leave. now we have seen videos emerge on tiktok as well as weibo, which is china�*s equivalent of twitter, showing people coming up against officials in hazmat suits, screaming out, lift the lockdown, as well as hitting drums. all of this comes about as the fact that china was the first into this pandemic and it seems like it is going to be the last out. it has now been almost three years that peop...