🔥 latest protest from Shanghai last night!
people are chanting ‘共产党下台,习近平下台 CCP go down!Xijinping go down!‘
2/ Protestors from Shanghai comforts Police
‘You come to serve people?!Ur Serving people is crackdown on people!’
3/ it is reported protestors who are arrested in Shanghai filled the at least two police vans.
4/ this young gril is among a lot protestors from Shanghai who got arrested last night.
She went back to the frontline several times to stop police arresting other people and finally snapped by police herself.
People call her XiaoQiao 小乔
🧵1/ China is having a revolution right now!
it seems so impossible after Tiananmen Massacre.
But this nationwide protest is burning unstoppable.I dont see how people will just walk away from the fight easily
Zero-covid-policy has pushed ordinary people & economy to it limits!
2/ It started from Beijing Sitong bridge 四通桥 right before Xi Jinping‘s 3rd term from 20th party congress.
A brave lone protestor lighted bride and put up giant hand painted banner demanding ’end Zero covid policy and Xi stepping down'
His name is 彭载舟(彭立发)Peng zaizhou
3/ Then it went quite for weeks from October. No one really carries his fight cus everybody hopes after Xi confirming his life long power after 20th congress,he will ease the Zero-Covid-Policy.
But the hope went frozen when new wave of lockdown announced in Nov. And fire starts.
Cartoon for supporting Shanghai and Urumqi protest against Chinese government's brutal zero-covid policy and for memorizing the victims from Urumqi lockdown fire.
Massive protest happened in Ulumuqi,Xinjiang,China after more than 100 days zero-covid city lockdown.
People are chanting ‘stop lockdown’ ‘we are human being’
2/ one significant trigger for the protest was a deadly fire in a resident building.
dozens people died due to lockdown setting stopped fire fighters and fire engines coming inside the block.
3/ protestors from Urumqi were singing China‘s national anthem while waving a flag.
Quite common in China’s protest,we call it ‘举着红旗反红旗‘ wave the flag while against it.
Its a self-protraction meaning ’ i am against a policy not the nation/CCP‘.
1/ Concern about twitter‘s integrity after Elon Musk deal from perspective of a Chinese dissident.
It will cover Shanghai,Xinjiang,Taiwan ,Wechat and more.
2/ the first concern comes from Tesla‘s dependence on it’s shanghai factory‘s production and China market.
3/ In 2022,Tesla opens its showroom in Xinjiang where millions uyghurs are facing genocide and forced labor.
It was largely criticized but Elon Musk simply does not care. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…