A rare wave of protests has taken place across many Chinese provinces and cities. With covid cases nationwide on the rise, local governments are taking extreme measures, with deadly consequences.
Survivor of Mao's revolution Xi Van Fleet joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss her thoughts on the uprising in China and her message to Americans as protests continue.
BEIJING - After a tumultuous weekend of nationwide protests things seemed to have slightly calmed down on Monday, but many here expect the protests to continue. On Sunday they had spread to some 20 provincesThe demonstrations over the country's"zero-COVID" policy and a deadly fire in a high-rise building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, that cost 10 people their lives seemed to have been the catalyst for many people in the communist nation to say enough is enough.
Over the weekend, things turned violent in several cities with protesters clashing with police. Videos posted online showed police attacking and carrying away some protesters. People have increasingly voiced their anger online. On Saturday and into Sunday, people gathered in the city center of Shanghai to light candles for the victims of the deadly fire. Around midnight, the crowd had swelled to over a thousand people, chanting,"apologize," directed at the central government,"Xi Jinping, step down," and"Communist Party, step down."
Such slogans aimed directly at Xi and his central leadership committee are unprecedented. Even during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, protesters demanded democratic reform, not regime change.
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