The anger, discontent and frustration and despair that can be felt through the countless videos from #Xinjiang’s #Urumqi, where people took immense risks to go onto the streets to protest and directly confront local officials, are showing the fundamental impact of #China’s ...
... ruthless imposition of the zero-Covid strategy and the lack of flexibility of the policies. As @Yaqiu told me in my piece earlier this week, what these protests reflect, is a society bent to the extreme, where people are taking protest as their last resorts for survival.
They know the immense risks and consequences that might involve in this type of protest, but they still decide to go ahead with joining the others to openly voice their grievances because they and society as a whole, have been pushed to the brink.
Whether the momentum can be sustained is always hard to predict, but if anything from earlier in the pandemic can serve as a reminder, we should know that people in #China haven’t lost the instinct to push back against oppression, but it only happens when ...
... they have no other ways to endure the pressure and harsh conditions, and the only way for them to release the mixed emotions is to take huge risks and protests and lodge questions at the authorities.
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