2023 was a disastrous year for the economy and for Xi Jinping’s regime. 2024 is already shaping up to be worse. China has not been rocked by major protests since the short-lived 2022 movement. These protests were crushed by a wave of arrests but not before bringing about the collapse of Xi Jinping’s brutal zero-COVID policy.
What is the point of being Socialist if you're just going to parrot this shit?
Yes, there were big protests against Zero Covid after a while. The absurd thing about the narrative of it being "brutal" and "totalitarian" is that the Zero Covid policies were all carried out by neighborhood volunteer organizations, not the police or the military. When the protests started, the central government quickly realized that the only way to keep enforcing it would be through the kind of overwhelming police crackdown that the western press imagined was happening, so they ended the policy instead. What happened does possibly signal a new future for Chinese politics, but not for the reasons that this article or the liberal western press says:
like you said, the protests were actually representative of how democratic the Chinese government is. people got sick of the COVID policies, started protesting for a few weeks? months? and the Chinese government instantly responded and started loosening restrictions.
can you imagine anything similar in a Western country? people have been protesting the genocide of Palestinians since October 7th and the Biden regime is just saying "fuck you, vote for us or you're supporting Trump". no one even thinks protests do anything anymore.
Afaik there were several protests in cities where the quarantine was handled poorly, more a "where is the food you promised us" and less "we hate your entire government"
What is the point of being Socialist if you're just going to parrot this shit?
brutality is when you don't want to let a deadly disease kill millions of innocent people
That's what you get when your "reporting" is just re-hashing mainstream media
Are the protests rocking China a reference to a real thing?
Yes, there were big protests against Zero Covid after a while. The absurd thing about the narrative of it being "brutal" and "totalitarian" is that the Zero Covid policies were all carried out by neighborhood volunteer organizations, not the police or the military. When the protests started, the central government quickly realized that the only way to keep enforcing it would be through the kind of overwhelming police crackdown that the western press imagined was happening, so they ended the policy instead. What happened does possibly signal a new future for Chinese politics, but not for the reasons that this article or the liberal western press says:
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like you said, the protests were actually representative of how democratic the Chinese government is. people got sick of the COVID policies, started protesting for a few weeks? months? and the Chinese government instantly responded and started loosening restrictions.
can you imagine anything similar in a Western country? people have been protesting the genocide of Palestinians since October 7th and the Biden regime is just saying "fuck you, vote for us or you're supporting Trump". no one even thinks protests do anything anymore.
Afaik there were several protests in cities where the quarantine was handled poorly, more a "where is the food you promised us" and less "we hate your entire government"
This reads like a Breitbart article