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“It opens by talking about COVID protests in China. China imposed a very draconian lockdown that was also quite arbitrary. It really made people’s lives very difficult for three years. In 2022, there were spontaneous demonstrations, beginning in November, on at least 70 campuses in China. There were also protests in the streets and people were carrying angry messages. A lot of them protested with blank white A4 paper because they didn’t want to get in trouble. Eventually, some people did criticise zero-COVID or were directly critical of Xi saying things like ‘Down with Xi Jinping.’ Willy Lam’s book argues that Xi Jinping’s government and Xi himself have lost the trust of the people.” Read more...
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