There isn't much news coverage of China's 100 year plan for obtaining global dominance if not hegemony. Chinese policy has been relatively reserved, cautious, even constructive. But it's clear mainland China / Beijing wants sovereign control over Taiwan, and elsewhere.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of major cities on Saturday and Sunday to demonstrate against China’s stringent Covid-19 measures, which have seen lockdowns, mass testing and widespread restrictions persist almost three years since the onset of the pandemic.
The protests present one of the most outward rejections of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authority in decades, and a clear affront to Xi’s signature “zero-Covid” policy, TS Lombard’s chief China economist told CNBC Monday.
“They are widespread and, crucially, [they are] the first protests in a very long time that are going against a central government policy — and one that is very closely associated with Xi Jinping. So they are incredibly significant,” Rory Green told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe.”
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Is President Xi's authoritarian COVID-19 policy has already sparked protests. Will this popular public backlash result in government response reminiscent of the massacre at Tiananmen Square?
Meanwhile in Iran: https://news.google.com/search?for=iran+hijab+protest&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
Similar widespread protests also threaten their national regime.
In the U.S. there was backlash against requirements for wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were some scuffles at shopping centers, and a few airline passengers deplaned under armed escort. In this context the Chinese policy under protest at least has legitimate scientific basis.
Iran's hijab mandate is rather more a quibble over fashion.
Is there potential here for these spontaneous public demonstrations to help reduce authoritarianism in China, Iran, and elsewhere?
China protests could usher in ‘more authoritarian’ Xi era, analyst says
Published Mon, Nov 28 20229:45 AM ESTTens of thousands of people took to the streets of major cities on Saturday and Sunday to demonstrate against China’s stringent Covid-19 measures, which have seen lockdowns, mass testing and widespread restrictions persist almost three years since the onset of the pandemic.
The protests present one of the most outward rejections of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authority in decades, and a clear affront to Xi’s signature “zero-Covid” policy, TS Lombard’s chief China economist told CNBC Monday.
“They are widespread and, crucially, [they are] the first protests in a very long time that are going against a central government policy — and one that is very closely associated with Xi Jinping. So they are incredibly significant,” Rory Green told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe.”
China protests could usher in 'more authoritarian' Xi era, analyst says
The eruption over the weekend of mass protests in China could mark the start of a "more authoritarian" era in President Xi Jinping's premiership.
Is President Xi's authoritarian COVID-19 policy has already sparked protests. Will this popular public backlash result in government response reminiscent of the massacre at Tiananmen Square?
Meanwhile in Iran: https://news.google.com/search?for=iran+hijab+protest&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
Similar widespread protests also threaten their national regime.
In the U.S. there was backlash against requirements for wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were some scuffles at shopping centers, and a few airline passengers deplaned under armed escort. In this context the Chinese policy under protest at least has legitimate scientific basis.
Iran's hijab mandate is rather more a quibble over fashion.
Is there potential here for these spontaneous public demonstrations to help reduce authoritarianism in China, Iran, and elsewhere?