Tag: Xi Jinping

PREMIERING 12/1 at 7:30PM ET: ‘Most Significant Protests Since 1989’: Benedict Rogers—Is China at a Turning Point?

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “It looks to me as if these are the most significant protests since 1989, and they are, I think, a boiling over of not just frustration at the very draconian COVID lockdowns, but actually rebellion against the very severe repression, the surveillance state…


China Protestors Call for End to CCP Rule

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary Extraordinary protests quickly spread across China over the weekend, including major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, since a fire Thursday claimed a reported 10 lives in an apartment block in Urumqi, in the northwestern part of the country. China’s people were enraged by the regime’s COVID controls, which had prevented…


The Tiananmen Tiger Stalks the Chinese Communist Government

Commentary What a difference a month makes when informed, brave, and bitterly resentful human beings decide to revolt against an oppressive dictator. As I write this column, in mainland China’s major cities protesters are attacking the regime’s hazmat-suit-clad COVID-19 lockdown enforcers. In Beijing and Chengdu anti-lockdown demonstrations rock China’s premier university campuses. Why? For the…


Hundreds in Vancouver Rally in Sympathy With China COVID Protests

Hundreds of people have rallied in Vancouver in sympathy with rare protests that are sweeping across China in response to the country’s hardline zero-COVID lockdown policies. The protesters outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday night also mourned the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire in the Xinjiang region that critics blame…


Massive Protests in China an Inspiration for Freedom Fighters, Canadian Parliamentarians Say in Support

The massive protests in China against Beijing’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy are an inspiration for all the people fighting for freedom and democracy under the communist regime, said Tory MP Michael Chong. “Conservatives support the brave Chinese protesting. Their courage is an inspiration to all people fighting for freedom & democracy. They remind us that these…


U.S. Navy Needs to Help Australia Defend Its Waters: Former Navy Secretary

Former U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said the U.S. Navy should provide more help to defend Australia’s waters until it acquires its own nuclear submarines in response to the rising threat from Beijing. Australia’s Navy is expected to experience a capability gap as the first nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement will not be ready…


US Navy Needs to Help Australia Defend Its Waters: Former Navy Secretary

Former U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said the U.S. Navy should provide more help to defend Australia’s waters until it acquires its own nuclear submarines in response to the rising threat from Beijing. Australia’s Navy is expected to experience a capability gap as the first nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement will not be ready…


Rare Protests Erupt Across China, Residents Demand Xi Jinping Step Down

Protests are sweeping across China, with crowds demanding the communist regime and its leader step down. Protesters are fed up with Beijing’s zero-COVID-19 policies. Does China believe it’s a good time to invade Taiwan as an attempt to distract citizens’ anger at the regime? Taiwan responds. Canada is unveiling its Indo-Pacific strategy. The long-awaited plan…


Nearly 1,000 Chinese Students in Toronto Rally in Solidarity With Protesters in China Against ‘Zero-COVID’ Policies

TORONTO—Nearly 1,000 students rallied outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto Sunday night, calling for an end to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as they stood in solidarity with protesters in China following the deaths of at least 10 people in a fire in Xinjiang’s capital of Urumqi. “Down with the Chinese Communist Party!” protesters chanted…


China Tightens Security After Mass Protests Over CCP’s Draconian COVID Policies

The Chinese regime tightened security in some cities in the aftermath of major protests over the weekend that flared across the country, a rare show of defiance against Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy that has uprooted daily life for the past three years.  Police on Nov. 28 stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend…