But if you only got your news from Reddit, you’d think the people are preparing to overthrow the government and establish a new liberal country.

There were protests where people were singing the national anthem too, but it seems like western libs are the only people who can protest the government without wanting to topple it

https://www.dw.com/en/protests-spread-across-china-amid-zero-covid-anger/a-63906795?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf

  • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yes, the central govt already give directive of smarter way implementing covid zero, but Xinjiang local govt fumble that by choosing the most restrictive. Shenzhen doesn't have this problem

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Seems to be all too common in China. The local govt fucking up the central government's directions.

      • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Well yea. In the end, they're just human, they all want to do their best to serve peoples and for their job. Some gonna make mistakes and some gonna flourish, the one that flourish is gonna go on to the central govt while the one f*ck up gonna be demote after cleaning up. This is just another test on their governance ability. From western perspective, it's easy to vote out clown A for clown B, pretend that all will dandy and business as usual. But that's not happening in China, they're serious.