OPINION: Protests in China are about much more than COVID lockdowns
Riot police in Guangzhou, China, were deployed in hazmat suits to crack down on COVID-19 lockdown protests, in video obtained by Reuters.The simultaneity and spontaneity of the protests erupting throughout China indicate that there is deep discontent among the Chinese people over much more than just the regime’s draconian and longstanding COVID mandates. Communist officials are of course trying to portray the protests as isolated, merely the result of the most recent round of lockdowns.
According to videos circulating online, hundreds of protesters from students to grandmothers are shouting,"Give me liberty or give me death!" The very words of American patriots are not uttered by people merely concerned with virus prevention lockdown measures but by rebels seeking to break free of the oppression that imprisons them as surely as any welded gates.
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