Tag: INSIDE CHINA

Chinese Police Reportedly Lock Down Tourists in Airport With Machine Guns Amid Snap Shut in Yunnan Province

Footage of Chinese police holding machine guns at the airport of Xishuangbanna (Banna) prefecture to stop tourists from boarding their planes has gone viral in China and overseas. Tourists were trapped in the airport after the local authorities of Banna suddenly locked down the city of Jinghong on Oct. 4. They chanted “We want to…


CCP Official Declares China Will Go to Extremes to Control COVID-19 Before Party Congress

A provincial-level official of the Chinese communist regime publicly says extreme measures in pandemic control will be used for the upcoming Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th National Congress on Oct. 16. During China’s National Day (Oct. 1) week-long holiday, authorities in Inner Mongolia region, home to a Mongol ethnicity in Northern China, adjacent to Beijing,…


Five Suicides in Tibet Due to ‘Extreme Hardship‘ in Lockdown: Report

The “extreme hardships” in Tibet, where the Chinese regime has imposed harsh lockdowns, are behind five recent suicides, according to a human rights advocacy group. The lockdown in the west border region—which has dragged on for over 50 days—caused “a spate of suicides” in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, according to the Washington-based International Campaign…


People Locked Down in Xinjiang Unable to Visit Hometowns for China’s National Day Holiday

Many people in China’s Xinjiang region can’t leave to visit their hometowns during the week-long “October First” holiday– the regime’s “National day” under its restrictive zero-COVID-19 control measures. Meanwhile, protests broke out against the indefinite lockdowns. Most of Xinjiang, which is in China’s northwest and home to an ethnic Uyghur majority, has now been under COVID-19…


Taiwanese Businessman’s Death in China Allegedly Due to Delay in Medical Treatment

China’s draconian zero-COVID policies have resulted in delayed medical treatment, and caused many deaths across the country since the COVID-19 outbreak. A Taiwanese businessman working in China was reported to have died on Sept. 18 in Xiamen, a city in China’s eastern coastal province of Fujian, after he was isolated in a quarantine facility near…


Anti-Lockdown Protest Turns Violent in China’s Shenzhen

A large-scale protest erupted in Shenzhen early this week after the tech hub locked down three districts due to 10 new COVID-19 cases. The Shenzhen Health Commission announced seven symptomatic and three asymptomatic cases on Sept. 26, with four cases found in Luohu District, four cases in Futian District, and two cases in Longgang District,…


89-Year-Old Chinese Writer Condemns the CCP for Zero-COVID Policies in Open Letter to Prime Minister

The mass mandatory PCR testing and random locking down of cities have stirred up much outcry among Chinese people. Protests erupted in the past months across the country, including in Beijing, Tianjin, Guiyang, Chongqing, and Wuhan. During this time, Chinese people have openly expressed their discontent online, opposing the regime’s harsh zero-COVID policies.  “The party [the Chinese…


Prominent Chinese Commentator Urges COVID-19 Experts to ‘Speak Out’

BEIJING—Prominent Chinese commentator Hu Xijin said on Sunday that as China ponders its COVID-19 policies, epidemic experts need to speak out and China ought to conduct comprehensive research and make any studies transparent to the public. Hu’s unusual call on Chinese social media for candor and transparency earned him 34,000 likes on the popular Twitter-like…


Tibetan Govt in Exile Says Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Draconian’ Zero-COVID Measures Endangering Lives

The Tibetan government-in-exile has taken aim at the “draconian measures” used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to enforce its so-called “zero-COVID policy,” saying the measures are “evidently causing more harm than good.” In a statement issued on Sept. 26, the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in Dharamshala, India, said the CCP’s “mismanagement of the pandemic outbreak…


Chinese Openly Oppose the Regime’s Zero-COVID Policy, as the CCP Party Congress Approaches

China’s ruling communist party (CCP) further tightened its control across the country in the name of curbing COVID-19 in the weeks before the CCP’s national party meeting in mid-October. Chinese citizens openly express opposition to the regime’s zero-COVID policy that has caused immense suffering and countless tragedies. A recent bus accident in Guizhou Province in…