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It was the biggest sign of Chinese people actually demonstrating in the streets fighting the opression. Not sure we will see something like that in the next 20 years in China again. It was impressive to see how they were organized and fought for their freedom
Chinese people literally just protested against Zero Covid policy which resulted it being ended.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China
It's crazy that they protested to allow covid, instead of to make Shanghai comply with zero covid and stop incubating and reinfecting the rest of the country.
Taken from another post:
Covid cases from March-April 2022.
Blue line: Shanghai, orange line: Shenzhen
Shanghai: population 24.87M, density ~4000/sqkm, Western-style lockdown
Shenzhen: population 17.56M, density ~7000/sqkm, Zero Covid lockdown
By December 2022, the entire national Zero Covid policy had to be abandoned. Because one city refused to comply with the national policy.
Where's your source for Shanghai not being under a strict lockdown?
The COVID lockdown was ended after two nights of protests in response to a towerblock in Umruqi burning down while locked shut to keep people and no one could get it opened up in time.
That was not the first case of a sealed building burning, and very shortly after the Guizhou bus crash with no survivors carrying people to a quarantine site late at night.
It was scary how easily it was squelched though.
They didn't have guns.
That's why they are mostly alive. If they were armed, they would have been massacred in great numbers.
Because occupations always go well for the occupiers?
Well, it has gone fairly well for a few hundred years in the USA.
Oh god, hexbear lives on; you think the US has been an authoritarian dictatorship like China since it declared independence.
Your reply seems really disingenuous but sure, I will bite.
I am not from hexbear, I'm pretty sure they got their domain back anyhow.
I never said the USA is comparable to China. In fact I never even mentioned China, so I'm not sure what you got that from.
I just said that the people of the USA are essentially occupiers of land that belongs to the Indians.
Jesus, you don't know Hong Kong is in China?
Read again you buffoon
You must be US-American