- 27 Nov 2022 03:59
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A fire killed dozens after firefighters were not allowed to respond and residents not allowed to escape a building under quarantine. Massive protests against the CPC and Xi in particular have erupted in many Chinese cities, hoping to end the madness of zero covid and reopen the country.
Protests have spread now. The Foxconn factory was a major site of protest earlier this week.
Protests have continued in Shanghai. They've started calling out Xi by name and demanding his resignation.
Interesting times. I hope zero-Covid is ended soon, personally, and that Xi resigns. Doubling down on this sort of shit is bad policy and bad for the CPC and Chinese people.
Reuters wrote:
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Public anger in China towards widening COVID-19 lockdowns across the country erupted into rare protests in China’s far western Xinjiang region and the country's capital of Beijing, as nationwide infections set another record.
Crowds took to the streets on Friday night in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi, chanting "End the lockdown!" and pumping their fists in the air, after a deadly fire on Thursday triggered anger over their prolonged COVID-19 lockdown according to videos circulated on Chinese social media on Friday night.
Reuters verified that the footage was published from Urumqi, where many of its 4 million residents have been under some of the country's longest lockdowns, barred from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days.
In the capital of Beijing 2,700 km (1,678 miles) away, some residents under lockdown staged small-scale protests or confronted their local officials over movement restrictions placed on them, with some successfully pressuring them into lifting them ahead of a schedule.
A crucial spark for the public anger was a fire in a high-rise building in Urumqi that killed 10 on Thursday night, whose case went viral on social media as many internet users surmised that residents could not escape in time because the building was partially locked down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hug ... 022-11-26/
Protests have spread now. The Foxconn factory was a major site of protest earlier this week.
Reuters wrote:Hundreds of workers joined protests at Foxconn's (2317.TW) flagship iPhone plant in China, with some men smashing surveillance cameras and windows, footage uploaded on social media showed.
The rare scenes of open dissent in China mark an escalation of unrest at the massive factory in Zhengzhou city that has come to symbolise a dangerous build-up in frustration with the country's ultra-severe COVID rules as well as inept handling of the situation by the world's largest contract manufacturer.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/foxc ... 022-11-23/
Reuters wrote:rotests simmered in Shanghai early on Sunday, as residents in several Chinese cities, many of them angered by a deadly fire in the country's far west, pushed back against heavy COVID-19 curbs nearly three years into the pandemic.
A fire on Thursday that killed 10 people in a high-rise building in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang region, has sparked widespread public anger as many internet users surmised that residents could not escape in time because the building was partially locked down, which city officials denied.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/sha ... 022-11-27/
Protests have continued in Shanghai. They've started calling out Xi by name and demanding his resignation.
Interesting times. I hope zero-Covid is ended soon, personally, and that Xi resigns. Doubling down on this sort of shit is bad policy and bad for the CPC and Chinese people.