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Nov 26 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Incredible footage from #China’s #Shanghai, where countless people gathered at a road called “#Urumqi road,” chanting a slogan “Step down, the Communist Party” very loudly.
Another video showing people collectively chanting “I don’t want PCR test, I want freedom.”
Citizens chanting “#Xinjiang, end lockdown, #Xinjiang, end lockdown.”
The crowd chanted “the Communist Party, Step down. Xi Jinping, step down.”
Scuffle broke out between some Police and citizens at the scene.
Police surrounded the last few dozens of protesters at the scene in Shanghai and some women were reportedly taken away.
Correction: the amount of protesters at the scene is reportedly between 100 and 200.

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Nov 28
More voices from #China: "I joined the protest because I was dissatisfied with the government's imposition of lockdowns, the government's abuse of power, the strict online censorship, the covering up of truth in the #Xinjiang fire and to show solidarity with people in Shanghai."
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Nov 27
After a long night of protesting, police has increased their number in #Beijing’s Liangmaqiao and more people have been arrested as police tried to prevent the protest from continuing.
Around 200 to 300 people continued to march down the street in #Beijing. As they can’t return to Liangmaqiao, where police has blocked access to the original protest site, they are marching towards Chaoyang Park.
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Nov 27
From @isabelhilton: "As the virus is normalised in much of the rest of the world, a policy that once seemed to guarantee security to #China looks more like trying to bail out a sinking dinghy with a sieve." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"It is difficult to reverse policy in any political system, but it is perhaps hardest in a top-down authoritarian model. This may seem counterintuitive; after all, can’t an authoritarian leader do what they like?"
"Up to a point, but several factors militate against an abrupt reversal of policy: if the leader is strongly associated with it, as in this case, a U-turn implies failure – something leaders who seek to maintain a myth of omniscience and omni-competence find difficult."
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Nov 27
Latest for @dwnews: The deadly fire in Xinjiang triggered a wave of anti-zero-COVID protests across several cities in #China. How will the Communist Party react as the movement gains momentum? I talked to protesters in Shanghai and @ChongJaIan to find out: dw.com/en/anti-zero-c…
"The Communist Party, step down. Xi Jinping, step down." Those were the slogans chanted by hundreds of protesters in China's commercial capital on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, ...
... as they gathered to demand the Chinese government end the strict pandemic control measures that have been imposed on several cities across the world's second-largest economy.
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Nov 27
The deadly fire in #Xinjiang triggered a wave of anti-zero-Covid protests across #China. Several participants in a big protest in Shanghai said the one demand from most protesters is asking for an end to the strict pandemic control measures. My latest: williamyang-35700.medium.com/how-the-deadly…
Videos on social media platforms show some protesters raising pieces of white papers to ask the government to end the strict lockdowns that have been imposed on cities across China.
At one protest in Shanghai, which was held at a road called Urumqi Road, at least more than 100 protesters chanted slogans such as “Communist party steps down, Xi Jinping steps down.”
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Nov 27
Thanks to the bravery of some Chinese citizens who participated in the protest calling for an end to the lockdown in #China's #Shanghai just a few hours ago, here are some of their reflections on the protest:
"The original nature of this event was a silent mourning of the Urumqi fire and a silent protest. At first, the scene was very quiet.
I arrived at the scene at 23:40, when the scene had been closed off by police, and the silent crowd was surrounded by a small number of police, who were constantly trying to persuade the crowd to leave, but no violent action was taken."
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