“Good good good sure sure sure right right right yes yes yes,” someone wrote on Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter. The post may not sound like it was written in a bad mood, but on the tightly controlled Chinese internet, the seemingly positive message is one of many ways the Chinese people display their defiance…
Strong Western Support for Anti-Lockdown Protests in China Can Bring Down the CCP: Expert
If they garner considerable support from the West, the COVID-19 protests in China can bring down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to anti-communist activist and researcher Trevor Loudon. “If the people on the ground in China have significant support from the West, they will carry this on and we could see the end of…
COVID-1984
Commentary In the Xi Jinping empire, the Wuhan virus (COVID-19) has undergone a three-year mutation. Instead of the Omicron with which all mankind is to coexist, it is COVID-1984—a kind of high-tech dictatorship never seen before, the monstrous spawn of the virus and internet technologies. The Xi empire has finally achieved a “communist health code…
China Is at a ‘Significant Turning Point’: Former Chinese Diplomat
A former Chinese diplomat who turned whistleblower in 2005 believes that the massive protests across China may be a significant turning point for the country. Protests have erupted across the mainland over the weekend, triggered by a deadly high-rise apartment fire in Urumqi, the capital city of China’s far western Xinjiang region, reportedly killing 10 people….
US Embassy Urges Americans Not to Travel to China
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing is urging American citizens to postpone travel to and within China as the country continues to enforce its strict “zero-COVID” policies that risk blocking access to essentials like food, water, and medicine. The embassy said in a Nov. 30 advisory that the quickly changing situation with COVID-19 in China and…
China’s COVID-19 Restrictions Eased in Some Cities After Week of Protests
Some Chinese cities have announced easing their COVID-19 restrictions following widespread protests in China. However, Chinese officials have already said they will persist in their dynamic zero-COVID policy and have not given any indication of when it would end. In Guangzhou, a manufacturing hub located near Hong Kong, local health officials announced lifting lockdowns in…
Support for Mainland Chinese Protests at University of Pennsylvania Candlelight Vigil
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Several hundreds of Chinese students at the University of Pennsylvania held a candlelight vigil to mourn those who lost their lives in the Urumqi fire in Xinjiang on Tuesday night, and support the demonstrations in China calling for an end to COVID-19 lockdowns. At 7 p.m., Chinese students gathered around the LOVE Sculpture on…
Apple ‘Serving as Vassal for CCP’ Amid Anti-Authoritarian Protests, DeSantis Says
Amid intense and often chaotic protests in China over the regime’s authoritarian and punitive COVID-19 policies, California-based Apple Inc. is facing criticism for enforcing policies that make it harder for Chinese citizens to use certain Apple products to talk, text, and share content. Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, who recently won reelection in his home state…
Chinese Students Rally Across UK in Support of Protests in China
Students from mainland China held vigils and rallies in a number of cities in the UK, echoing widespread protests against the regime’s zero-COVID policies that have taken place across China and around the globe. The rare scenes of mass protests are reminiscent of the democracy movement of 1989, triggered by a fatal apartment fire in Xinjiang…
Mass COVID Protests in China Reveal a Weakened Communist Regime: Expert
The mass protests against Beijing’s “zero-COVID” policy in China reveals a weaken the communist regime, according to Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk. “It makes them look weaker than it was in the past,” Corr, who is also an Epoch Times contributor, said in an interview with NTD, sister media outlet of The Epoch Times,…
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