Police in white hazmat suits clashed with anti-lockdown protesters in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday and Wednesday, providing evidence the uprising continues despite mounting threats of a brutal crackdown.
Chinese security officials actually used the word “crackdown” on Tuesday, teasing a Tiananmen Square-style ending for the biggest protest movement to sweep China since the 1989 student uprising – which might very well have toppled the Communist regime, had it not resorted toThe uprising is still vigorous enough to push a flood of news and images past China’s censorship firewalls to the outside world, transmitting photos and videos from thousands of smartphones, so the battle that began in...
The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission in Beijing, China’s top security and law enforcement authority, usedin a statement on Tuesday that dismissed the anti-lockdown protests as the work of “hostile forces” and threatened to “crack down on illegal criminal acts that disrupt social order.”
Protests continued in other Chinese cities despite mass arrests and threats of retaliation against demonstrators, so the Communist regime is evidently thinking aboutChinese health officials told reporters on Tuesday they might “fine tune and modify” their policies to moderate the “negative impact on people’s livelihoods and lives,” which is the closest any Chinese Communist official has come to admitting the lockdowns could be profoundly harmful.
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