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.