Tag: zero-COVID

New Zealand Chinese Rally to Support ‘White Paper Revolution’

Over one hundred New Zealand Chinese rallied on Dec. 2 at Auckland’s Aotea Square, mourning victims of a fatal apartment fire in Urumqi and showing solidarity with Chinese protests against the regime’s zero-COVID policy. Members of New Zealand’s parliament showed support. White papers, with words supporting China’s “White Paper Movement” and calling for the Chinese…


China Relaxes COVID Restrictions in Major Policy Shift Following Mass Protests

China’s health officials on Dec. 7 issued new national guidelines to ease strict COVID-19 measures, following protests that erupted across the country late last month. Residents welcomed the news as cities gradually return to normalcy. The relaxation of COVID measures—such as allowing infected people with mild or no symptoms to quarantine at home and dropping testing…


Blinken Affirms Biden Admin’s Support for China’s Zero-COVID Protesters Amid Backlash

Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed the Biden administration’s support for zero-COVID protesters in China on Dec. 4 amid criticism that its response has been weak. “Of course we do,” Blinken told CNN’s Jake Tapper when asked whether the administration supports the protesters. “We support the right for people everywhere, whether it’s in China, whether…


‘Keep Up the Fight’: Toronto Rally Held in Support of Protestors in China

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Grange Park in downtown Toronto on the evening of Dec. 3, to support the “White Paper Revolution” in China that calls for an end to Beijing’s draconian “zero-COVID policy” and the Chinese regime’s brutal persecution of religious and ethnic minority groups. Multiple civil rights associations attended the gathering, including the Toronto…


CCP Relaxes COVID Controls Amid White Paper Movement

Authorities in many Chinese cities have been relaxing the epidemic prevention restrictions after protests against the zero-COVID policy broke out across the country. According to political analysts, while the Chinese regime has made some concessions on the surface, it will bide its time for revenge and eventually adopt a “precision crackdown” policy. In recent days,…


People Across Political Spectrum Show Support for China’s Anti-CCP Protests at Australian Rally

Flags were flying with voices decrying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its leader Xi Jinping on Saturday night as those concerned about China’s lack of freedoms and human rights gathered to remember the tragedies unfolding over the last three years in China under the far-left CCP’s so-called “zero-COVID” virus elimination policies. “Xi Jinping, step…


More Chinese Cities Ease COVID-19 Restrictions After Mass Protests

BEIJING—More Chinese cities including Urumqi in the far west announced an easing of coronavirus curbs on Sunday after unprecedented protests against restrictions last weekend. Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region and where the protests first erupted, will reopen malls, markets, restaurants, and other venues from Monday, authorities said, ending strict lockdowns after months. There…


Beijing COVID-19 Control Staff Strike Over Owed Wages

Amid the COVID protests and the chaos caused by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “zero-COVID” policy, some of the regime’s pandemic control staff in Beijing went on strike in recent days and protested in front of government office over owed wages. In a video provided by an interviewee, dozens of epidemic control staff gathered to…


Reliance on Cheap Chinese Goods a ‘Trade-Off of Human Lives’: Former UK Conservative Leader

The UK’s reliance on cheap goods from the “brutal, dictatorial” Chinese regime to help avoid a recession is a “trade-off of human lives,” former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said. Appearing on the Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme on Sky News, the senior MP was asked if the UK should seek to…


UK’s Reliance on Cheap Chinese Goods a ‘Trade-Off of Human Lives’: Former Conservative Leader

The UK’s reliance on cheap goods from the “brutal, dictatorial” Chinese regime to help avoid a recession is a “trade-off of human lives,” former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said. Appearing on the Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme on Sky News, the senior MP was asked if the UK should seek to…