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Columnist for @zeitonline. All opinions are my own. Buckled up for the future. China, Europe, destructing authoritarianism/totalitarianism/patriarchy
Nov 26, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read
Shanghai people are demonstrating against the lockdown. This is a live broadcast. Many police have surrounded the protestors.

instagram.com/shcrad.io People were shouting: “Down with the Communist Party! “Down with Xi Jinping!” “We want freedom!”
Every of these slogans is enough to send a person to jail for 10 years or even a life risk. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Nov 26, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
I have spent the whole night watching videos and reading posts of angry protests in China.
After a horrifying tragedy in Urumqi, a large demonstration broke out in this city. The city has been under inhumane lockdown for more than 100 days. All over China, people are shaken by the videos of victims trapped in locked buildings and begging for help. 10 people died, including 2 Uighur children.
Iron lockdown fence and cars parked in the compound made it impossible for the fire engine to enter it.
Nov 6, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
I hesitated for a day whether to share this audio, and finally decide to do so.
This is the recording of a Chinese girl crying behind a welded gate of her building, begging to be let out because her mother jump off the building in another long lockdown in Hohhot City. In the wechat group chat of the neighbors of the poor young daughter, several women trying to help the girl, demanding the neighborhood committee staffs (who guarded and welded the gate) to let them out to accompany her.
May 11, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Couples in #Shanghai refused to be shipped to quarantine camps. An official threatened: “You would be taken away by force, which will be marked in your record and affect your next 3 generations.” The young man said: “We’re the last generation. Thanks.” He was applauded… …by many young netizens, who started a #LastGeneration movement online.
“…an ultimate declaration. Either such a life ends in our generation, or we are ended by this life.”
“(Student protester in) 1989: ‘This is my duty.’
“2022: ‘We are the last generation.’”
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