No demonstrations have come close to the size of the anti-lockdown protests since the infamous massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989, says Sky's Dominic Waghorn.
These protests are momentous. Wherever they lead, they are already hugely significant.
What will worry China's leadership about these protests is their size, their spread across the country, and their persistence. We will make you more prosperous and keep society stable, and you will let us get on with running the country.Stability and prosperity mean everything to the Chinese because, as they have learned since childhood, theirs has been a history of chaos, poverty and upheaval. The people have trusted their government to make sure that stays in the past.
And making matters worse, under lockdown, the economy has not continued on its ever upward trajectory.The Chinese know the rest of the world is moving on from COVID while they are not. The sight on their televisions of World Cup crowds in their thousands without masks is proof of that. That compact between state and people is no longer delivering like it used to and it means we are in uncharted waters.President Xi Jinping has staked a huge amount on China's zero-COVID policy.
Tracking, tracing and locking down may work with a quiescent population, but for an angry citizenry losing trust in the authorities, it does not.
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