The recent protests in China, against the gruelling effects of Xi Jinping’s signature “zero COVID” strategy, represent the boldest domestic political challenge to the country’s government in decades.
for hundreds of millions of people, stilled parts of the world’s busiest cities, choked off connections to the outside world, and undermined the economy. But Peng pointedly included broader statements in his message, such as “We don’t want a leader. We want the vote.” He was last seen being hustled into a car by authorities.
The slogans and the tenor of the protests reflect frustrations that extend beyond the policy to the fundamentalthat Xi has overseen since taking power in 2012, particularly the squelching of even mild online criticism of the government and the dismantling of civil society—a combination that Yasheng Huang, a China scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described in aThe reversal of private freedoms has been accompanied by a withdrawal from the wider world that has been felt in the...
As the protests have spread, the details have challenged some popular assumptions about what is and is not possible in the suffocated confines of China’s politics. On campuses across the country, students have held up pieces of blank white paper, a symbol of enforced silence that evades the rules against overt opposition.
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