World News | Local anger at Chinese authorities’ zero-Covid policy could lead to crackdown by Xi Jinping

Beijing [China]Dec 1 (ANI): Ongoing anger among locals over Chinese authorities’ opposition to a zero-virus policy could lead to Xi Jinping’s crackdown on the country as protests against the central government took place in so many places since the last. Things have changed dramatically According to John Pomfret, who was The Washington Post’s China bureau chief from 1997 to 2003, the students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square were enrolled at the same time.

When Pomfret recalled his experience in China, he said that he was also in China ten years later. On April 25, 1999, tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners surrounded the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing and held a peaceful sit-in. In protest, The Washington Post reported.

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China’s internal security agency monitors hundreds of millions of AI-enabled public cameras across the country and has a budget larger than the military. Swarms of human and algorithmic censors have access to smartphone apps that Chinese citizens use to communicate, travel, and buy essentials.

Chinese police also used billions of dollars in riot gear that security forces didn’t have in 1989 to force crackdowns without opening fire on crowds, according to The Washington Post.

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Less than three months after Xi Jinping won a historic third term as China’s leader at the 20th National Congress, the “white paper revolution” over the zero-Covid policy has hit the country’s second-largest economy.

According to Federico Giuliani, a columnist for InsideOver, the Chinese president is facing an unprecedented crisis.

China has been widely criticized for the crackdown on demonstrations against the government’s strict coronavirus policies since the start of the pandemic.

Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial hub, began publicly protesting the government’s strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

University students across the country gathered on campus to demonstrate, and hundreds took to the streets that night in Wuhan, the epicenter of Covid-19, Chengdu, Beijing and other major cities. (Arnie)

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