Health Workers in China Refusing the Covid Vaccine at Huge Rates

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Re: Socialism, like UN (agenda-21 and -2030) IS GENOCIDE, and gov. agencies are engaged in mass-murd

Health Workers in China Refusing the Covid Vaccine at Huge Rates​

March 5, 2021 by IWB

Link: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com...ina-refusing-the-covid-vaccine-at-huge-rates/

By Chris Black

Remember: if something has to be advertised, then you don’t need it.

It seems that the high Chinese IQ is at work again, as we just got word about health workers in China refusing the Covid vaccine en masse.

Actually, all over the world, higher education levels are more likely to refuse the experimental gene therapy also known as Covid vaccine (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J are rMNA vaccines).

However, what’s strange is that the Chinese are having doubts about their own vaccine:

South China Morning Post:

Public health workers in Beijing are the least willing to get a coronavirus jab compared to their peers elsewhere in China, according to a survey by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

It found that less than 74 per cent of all CDC staff in the capital would get vaccinated against Covid-19 voluntarily.

In other areas – such as Shandong, Sichuan and Hubei provinces – that rate was nearly 90 per cent.

Researchers with the CDC’s National Immunisation Programme, who conducted the survey, concluded that the higher the education level of staff, the less willing they were to get the jab.

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More than 3,000 public health workers from across China took part in the survey in May and June last year, but the researchers noted that the results should be treated with caution since about a third of CDC employees did not respond.

I mean, the Chinese are not dumb enough to vaccinate their population with Western-made experimental vaccines; also, China did not gone alone with the Covid hoax, as in they refused to destroy their economy and engage in mass lockdowns.

They do wear masks though, but wearing a mask is pretty standard in Asia for decades, due to their specific neuroticism.

In Europe and the US, the sale of the century also known as the covid vaccine rollout is in full swing, and the number of people getting “stamped” with DNA altering vaccines is growing every day.

The NWO wants every “goy” to be vaccinated ASAP, and they’re using heavy artillery to achieve their goal.

Here are the main ways they trick you into submission, until they can pull mandatory vaccines and/or immunity passports:

First, they manufacture consent via bribery, the oldest and most efficient method known to man. As in, if you want to see granny, go to the gym/pub or see people, just take the covid shot, man. Take the vaccine (2-3 times, or as often as your daddy Gates tells you to) and things will get back to normal someday (not today) MAYBE.

The new normal or back to normal is actually a lie, as the experts already said we’re never getting back to normal.

But, if you’re a good goy and get the vaccine, you’ll get a treat. The covid vaccine doesn’t even claim that can limit transmission, so if you’re vaccinated, you’ll still have to obey the covid-rules. For now. Or until 2022, or until further notice. Or whatever.

The next method is celebrity endorsement. This marketing technique works on different levels, from selling toothpaste to conducting gene therapy on low IQ people. Here’s an example:

How do we say thank you to the health workers and scientists for their sacrifice and service? Receive the vaccine as soon as one can to lessen their load and keep wearing a mask to protect fellow citizens. In my 80th year, I am grateful and hopeful for better days ahead. pic.twitter.com/emGDlnYL2E

— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) January 22, 2021

And here’s another (both are incredibly gay by the way):

Nowadays even the Queen of England is shilling for Big Pharma, just like the Donald:

‘It was very quick. It didn’t hurt at all.’

The Queen shares her experience of getting the #COVIDVaccine with England’s NHS Vaccine Deployment Lead Dr @Emily_JR_Lawson, and encourages those who might be hesitant to get theirs when invited. @RoyalFamily pic.twitter.com/MsR7uqSmK2

— NHS England and NHS Improvement (@NHSEngland) February 25, 2021

You must remember that all people on TV, especially actors and “celebrities, are literally paid to sell you lies, regardless of the topic. And even if their intentions are honourable (I doubt that), there’s no reason to assume that they actually know what they’re selling.

Forced scarcity is another selling technique, as in “limited time offer” “while stocks last”; I’ve seen dozens of articles about people in Europe desperate to “take a dose” or dwindling stock of covid vaccines. It’s all a freak show, obviously, just like the vaccine’s fake popularity.

Check this out:

Incredible take up: Matt Hancock says 94% of Britons have taken a coronavirus vaccine or will do so when offered.

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) March 1, 2021

There’s no source to back the claim, and, just like most statistics are, this one seems to be totally made up.

The most interesting method is the “resistance is useless” mantra. As in, America First is inevitable (hello Nick), or getting the covid vaccine is inevitable. This is a powerful tool to influence morons, and unfortunately, the movie Idiocracy seems to be happening all around us nowadays.

Speaking of Idiocracy, check this out:

Lord Sumption Capitulating to Vaccine Passports. pic.twitter.com/oL4jkjYNFy

— WE GOT A PROBLEM (@problem_we) March 4, 2021

I believe it is the next level of the psyop: make people believe they are the minority when in fact the opposite is likely true, but because the mind is beaten and manipulated, more just ‘tag’ along for the ride.

If enough people refuse to take part in the covid vaccination experiment, the “passport” program will never work.

If vaccine take-up was really at 94%, there’d be no need to push it obsessively.

 

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Xi's increasingly desperate bid to suppress China's uprising: Censors try (but fail) to scrub images of blank sheets of paper being held up by protesters from the internet as the anti-regime ‘A4 revolution’ continues across the country​

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...scrub-rebels-blank-sheets-paper-Internet.html

• China is facing its largest anti-government protests since Tiananmen Square
• Protesters have been holding up blank sheets of paper to symbolise censorship
• Demonstrations taking place against President Xi and his Covid crackdowns
• Online discussions and news coverage of the protests have now been banned
• But social media users are evading AI to post images of the blank white sheets

By JAMIE PHILLIPS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 21:02 EST, 28 November 2022 | UPDATED: 02:04 EST, 29 November 2022

China's censors have been overwhelmed as they try to wipe images of blank sheets of white paper used by protesters in a growing number of demonstrations against President Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy from the internet.
The country is currently facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre, with protesters in at least seven cities holding up blank sheets of paper to symbolise censorship.
Protesters have taken to the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Nanjing in an unprecedented wave of dissent to demonstrate against President Xi, his oppressive Covid crackdowns and increasingly authoritarian rule.
Online discussions and news coverage of the demonstrations have now been banned, with security forces deployed to the streets of the country's major cities last night.

Protesters hold up blank white papers during a commemoration for victims of a recent Urumqi deadly fire

A protester holds up a blank piece of paper and a candle during a demonstration in Hong Kong on Monday night

Protesters shout slogans during a protest against Chinas strict zero-Covid measures in Beijing last night
Protesters in Shanghai hold white paper as they face off with police

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What are the blank sheets of paper?​

Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper as a symbol of widespread dissatisfaction with Covid rules and the lack of freedom of speech.
Images and videos circulated online showed students at universities in cities including Nanjing and Beijing holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest, a tactic used in part to evade censorship or arrest.
In Shanghai, a crowd that started gathering late on Saturday to hold a candlelight vigil for the Urumqi victims held up blank sheets of paper, according to witnesses.
Similar sheets of paper could be seen held by people at separate Sunday gatherings on the grounds of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University and along the Chinese capital's 3rd Ring Road near the Liangma River.
'The white paper represent everything we want to say but cannot say,' said Johnny, 26, who took part in one of the Liangma River gatherings.
'I came here to pay respects to the victims of the fire I really hope we can see an end to all of these COVID measures. We want to live a normal life again. We want to have dignity.'
One widely shared video said to be from Saturday, which could not be independently verified, showed a lone woman standing on the steps of the Communication University of China in the eastern city of Nanjing with a piece of paper before an unidentified man walks into the scene and snatches it away.
Other images showed dozens of other people subsequently taking to the university's steps with blank sheets of paper illuminated against the night sky by flashlights from their mobile phones.
A man could later be seen chiding the crowd for their protest.
'One day you'll pay for everything you did today,' he said, in videos seen by Reuters.
'The state will also have to pay the price for what it has done,' people in the crowd shouted back.
In Hong Kong in 2020, activists also raised blank sheets of white paper in protest to avoid slogans banned under the city's new national security law, which was imposed after massive and sometimes violent protests the previous year.

All signs of the blank sheets of paper have also been erased, including pictures and videos of packs of white paper, The Telegraph reports.
But social media users on the platforms Weibo and WeChat have taken matter into their own hands by posting their own images of the blank sheets.
It includes some using filters while taking videos of videos to evade the government's artificial intelligence.
Meanwhile, Xi has yet to even acknowledge the marches but few expect him to back down.
Dr Alan Mendoza yesterday warned MailOnline that Beijing 'will crack down hard and punish the protestors severely' as state media ran editorials defending zero-Covid.
It comes after an apartment fire in the city of Urumqi killed at least 10 and sparked the protests amid claims that China's strict lockdown measures hampered rescue efforts and the ability of residents to escape.
Beijing denies this was the case, and has blamed 'forces with ulterior motives' for linking the two.
Clashes between activists and police have already taken place in Shanghai - which suffered through a months-long Covid lockdown earlier this year - with BBC cameraman Edward Lawrence arrested and beaten by officers in the city.
Shocking video from the anti-government protests in Shanghai shows Mr Lawrence, a camera operator for the BBC's China bureau, being dragged away by Xi's officers as he desperately screams 'Call the consulate now' to a friend.
Mr Lawrence was beaten and kicked by the police officers and held in custody for 'several hours' before being released, as Chinese officials sought to crack down on the media and protesters in the city.
The journalist said that at least one local was arrested after they tried to stop the police from beating him during his arrest.
China remains the only major economy with a strict zero-Covid policy, with local authorities clamping down on even small outbreaks with strict lockdowns, mass testing campaigns, and lengthy quarantines.
While many had expected the policy to be relaxed after the ruling Communist Party's five-yearly congress last month, Beijing instead doubled down.
That fuelled the public rage now playing out on the streets of some of China's biggest cities.
'People have now reached a boiling point because there has been no clear path to end the zero-Covid policy,' Alfred Wu Muluan, a Chinese politics expert at the National University of Singapore (NUS), told French news outlet AFP.
Anger over Covid lockdowns has also transformed into calls for broader political change, with some in Shanghai early on Sunday even chanting 'Xi Jinping, step down! CCP, step down!'
Students protesting at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University on Sunday chanted 'democracy and the rule of law, freedom of expression'.
And demonstrators in Beijing on Sunday night shouted slogans demanding 'freedom of art' and 'freedom to write!'
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A protester holds up a banner commemorating the victims of the Urumqi fire which killed at least 10 people, with lockdown rules blamed for hampering the recuse

Footage emerged showing journalist Edward Laurence helpless on the ground with three aggressive officers in high-vis jackets standing over him and pulling his arms behind his back

China is experiencing an unprecedented wave of Covid which has sparked tough lockdowns, testing regimes and mask mandates
Largely young and social media savvy, protesters have organised on the web and used canny tricks to protest against state censorship - from holding up blank papers to online articles consisting of nonsense combinations of 'positive' words to draw attention to the lack of free speech.
Matthew Henderson, once a diplomat to China and now associate fellow at the Council on Geostrategy, said there 'is no good outcome' for Xi as marches take place in major cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan.
Either Xi will be forced into a humiliating U-turn on his signature zero-Covid policy or into 'armed warfare' with his own people, Mr Henderson said, both of which place his regime at 'incredibly high risk' just weeks into his historic third term.
Anti-Chinese government protest outside embassy in London

Students at a university in the city of Nanjing light up their phones as they gather in protest against Xi's increasingly authoritarian rule

Demonstrators in Beijing hold up blank pieces of paper in an apparent statement on state censorship and freedom of speech
Asked whether this is the greatest threat Xi has faced, Mr Henderson replied: 'Yes.'
He added: 'Covid is fault of Chinese government but they can't admit it and won't.
'These protests began because of Covid but the Chinese people also no longer feel the party is out for their benefit...
'The Communist Party does not like the Chinese people, it is scared of them, it mistrusts them, and it is parasitical on them.'

Why are violent protests spreading in China and what will Beijing do next? As Communist Party faces biggest threat since Tiananmen massacre, MailOnline explains why Covid riots are growing​

China is in the grips of its biggest anti-government protests in decades, with Xi Jinping facing one of the most significant challenges to his power in his 10-year rule.
Simmering frustration at months-long lockdowns as part of Beijing's Zero Covid policy has finally spilled into unrest on the streets, despite the overhanging threat of state surveillance and mass detention.
Not only are protesters calling for an end to draconian Covid laws, but they are also seeking greater political freedom and even the resignation of Xi.
Here, MailOnline explains how the protests started, what they mean for China and what might happen next.

People gather for a vigil and hold white sheets of paper in protest over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Urumqi last night

Police in Shanghai arrest an activist after clashes with demonstrators which also saw a BBC cameraman detained and beaten

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What is happening in China?​

Snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and mass testing campaigns have sparked protests, as students gathered on university campuses and cities around the country demanding an end to the zero-Covid policy.
The unrest broke out over the weekend, sweeping across major cities and universities after a deadly fire on Thursday killed at least 10 in a locked down apartment block.
While the protests have been sparked by Covid, they also target the Communist party's authoritarian regime, calling for greater individual freedom.
Candlelit vigils and peaceful street protests of up to 1,000 people have broken out, while violence was seen in other places such as Shanghai where demonstrators clashed with police, and Wuhan where pandemic barriers were trampled.
An estimated 16 locations within China have seen protests including the two biggest cities of Beijing and Shanghai.
Campuses including the prestigious Peking University and the Tsinghua University in Beijing have also been sites of unrest.

The protests expose the growing mood of frustration after almost three years of restrictions in the only major country in the world still fighting Covid using the outdated weapons of mass lockdowns and regular testing

Despite police trying to break up the gathering with pepper spray, beatings and bundling protesters into their vans, hundreds returned to the street yesterday

Barely a month after granting himself new powers as China's possible leader for life, Xi is facing a wave of public anger of the kind not seen for decades
'People have now reached a boiling point because there has been no clear path to end the zero-Covid policy,' Alfred Wu Muluan, a Chinese politics expert at the National University of Singapore (NUS), said.
Demonstrators have been chanting slogans and confronting police in the protests, with some riot police firing back with pepper spray and arresting journalists.
Some are even calling for the resignation of Xi Jinping.
Only last month, Xi held the Communist Party's 20th national congress, seen as a consolidation of his power as he surrounded himself with loyalists and shunned the two-term limit.
Many had expected his Zero Covid policy to be relaxed after the congress but instead he doubled down, and now his power appears weaker than ever and there are growing calls for him to resign.

China is experiencing an unprecedented wave of Covid which has sparked tough lockdowns, testing regimes and mask mandates

Students at a university in the city of Nanjing light up their phones as they gather in protest against Xi's increasingly authoritarian rule

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in cities across China in an unprecedented outpouring of anger against Xi Jinping's draconian zero-Covid policies (pictured, Wuhan)
Hundreds of students at Tsinghua University protest Covid lockdown

Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT, said: 'Before the 20th Congress there was hope of policy change, but the leadership lineup of the Congress completely derailed this expectation, forcing people to take actions into their own hands.'
Emily Feng, the China reporter for NPR, told the BBC Today Show: 'This scale of social movement hasn't been seen so far in Xi Jinping's China.
'The fact that so many people have been able to come out and congregate at the same time across multiple cities is just extraordinary. People have shown real courage and bravery.'

What sparked the riots?​

There has been simmering anger over China's Covid policy for many months now,
Videos of residents being taken away to quarantine camps have widely circulated online before being scrubbed from the internet by government censors.
Meanwhile millions were issued stay-at-home orders after only a handful of cases in a city.
But the major catalyst was a fire that broke out in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region.

The major catalyst was a fire that broke out in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region (pictured)

Police officers block a road during a protest triggered by a fire in Urumqi that killed 10 people in Beijing, China, amid ongoing protests
Thursday's blaze saw at least 10 people killed in an apartment block where some residents had been locked for four months.
Many speculated that Covid curbs in the city then hindered rescue and escape, which city officials denied.
Crowds in Urumqi took to the street on Friday.
Other incidents that have provoked anger in China include a pregnant woman who miscarried after being refused entry to a Xian hospital in January, the deadly crash of a bus in Guizhou ferrying people being quarantined, and a young boy in Lanzhou who died from gas poisoning while under lockdown.
Last month, more than 600,000 people were ordered to stay in their homes in Zhengzhou after the city reported 64 virus cases.
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Workers who assemble iPhones at a facility run by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn were seen breaking out of the factory
The order came after workers who assemble iPhones at a facility run by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn, which employs hundreds of thousands of workers, were seen breaking out of the factory.
The campus had been operating under a 'closed-loop management' system in which employees sleep, live and work isolated from the wider world at the factory.
But employees had been complaining of poor conditions, saying people who tested positive received no treatment and the company failed to stop the spread of the virus.
As the anger was bubbling, during the national congress last month, a protester unfurled a banner on a motorway bridge which read: 'We need food, not COVID tests. We want freedom, not lockdowns.
'We want dignity, not lies. We need reform, no cultural revolution. We want to vote, not a leader. Don't be slaves, be citizens.'
Earlier this month, a woman jumped to her death from her apartment after being locked down.

As the anger was bubbling, during the national congress last month, a protester unfurled a banner on a motorway bridge
Distressing audio of woman welded into home begging to be released

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What are China's Covid lockdown policies?​

China has employed local Covid lockdowns in a bid to contain and eradicate the virus which is approaching its third anniversary.
While the rest of the world has long been celebrating the reinstatement of their freedoms, millions in China have been subjected to a form of house arrest lasting months on end in a move slammed as neither scientific nor effective.
With its 'zero COVID' policy, imposed shortly after the coronavirus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, China is now the only major country still trying to stop all transmission of the virus rather than learning to live with it.

Epidemic-prevention workers in protective suits line leave a testing station to contain Covid in Beijing today
That has kept China's infection numbers lower than those the United States and other major countries, but public acceptance of the restrictions has worn thin.
People who are quarantined at home in some areas say they lack food and medicine.
The ruling party faced public anger following the deaths of two children whose parents said anti-virus controls hampered their efforts to get medical help.
And the case numbers continue to rise, jumping in the past week from less than 30,000 per day to 40,273 on Monday.
While China initially had a strong vaccination program, that has lost momentum since the summer.
Whole cities have been locked down over a small number of cases, and children have even been separated from their families during raids by PPE-wearing officials who cart them off to quarantine camps in distressing scenes.
Despite the backlash, the central government has reiterated its stance that anti-coronavirus measures should be 'targeted and precise' and cause the least possible disruption to people's lives.

Volunteer health workers prepare bags of vegetables for residents under lockdown in Beijing today
That doesn't appear, however, to be reflected at the local level.
Cadres are threatened with losing their jobs or suffering other punishments if outbreaks occur in their jurisdictions, prompting them to adopt the most radical options.
This spring, millions of Shanghai residents were placed under a strict lockdown that resulted in food shortages, restricted access to medical care, and harsh economic pain.
Nevertheless, in October, the city's most powerful official, a longtime Xi loyalist, was appointed to the Communist Party's No. 2 position.
China has persevered with the policy despite criticism from the normally supportive head of the World Health Organization, who called it unsustainable. Beijing dismissed his remarks as irresponsible.
And on Sunday, White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said measures such as shutdowns are only intended to be temporary.
'It seems that in China it was just a very, very strict extraordinary lockdown, where you lock people in the house, but without any seemingly end game to it,' Fauci said on NBC's Meet the Press.
Yet Xi, an ardent nationalist, has politicized the issue to the point that exiting the 'zero COVID' policy could be seen as a loss to his reputation and authority.
'Zero COVID' was 'supposed to demonstrate the superiority of the `Chinese model,' but ended up demonstrating the risk that when authoritarian regimes make mistakes, those mistakes can be colossal,' said Andrew Nathan, a Chinese politics specialist at Columbia University who edited The Tiananmen Papers, an insider account of the government's response to the 1989 protests.
'But I think the regime has backed itself into a corner and has no way to yield. It has lots of force, and if necessary, it will use it,' Nathan said.
'If it could hold onto power in the face of the pro-democracy demonstrations of 1989, it can do so again now.'

What are the blank pieces of white A4 paper?​

Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper as a symbol of widespread dissatisfaction with Covid rules and the lack of freedom of speech.
Images and videos circulated online showed students at universities in cities including Nanjing and Beijing holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest, a tactic used in part to evade censorship or arrest.
In Shanghai, a crowd that started gathering late on Saturday to hold a candlelight vigil for the Urumqi victims held up blank sheets of paper, according to witnesses.
Similar sheets of paper could be seen held by people at separate Sunday gatherings on the grounds of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University and along the Chinese capital's 3rd Ring Road near the Liangma River.
'The white paper represent everything we want to say but cannot say,' said Johnny, 26, who took part in one of the Liangma River gatherings.

Protesters gather along a street during a rally for the victims of a deadly fire as well as a protest against China's harsh Covid-19 restrictions

People show blank papers as a way to protest in Shanghai earlier today, where demonstrations are taking place against the country's Covid policies
'I came here to pay respects to the victims of the fire I really hope we can see an end to all of these COVID measures. We want to live a normal life again. We want to have dignity.'
One widely shared video said to be from Saturday, which could not be independently verified, showed a lone woman standing on the steps of the Communication University of China in the eastern city of Nanjing with a piece of paper before an unidentified man walks into the scene and snatches it away.
Other images showed dozens of other people subsequently taking to the university's steps with blank sheets of paper illuminated against the night sky by flashlights from their mobile phones.
A man could later be seen chiding the crowd for their protest.
'One day you'll pay for everything you did today,' he said, in videos seen by Reuters.
'The state will also have to pay the price for what it has done,' people in the crowd shouted back.
In Hong Kong in 2020, activists also raised blank sheets of white paper in protest to avoid slogans banned under the city's new national security law, which was imposed after massive and sometimes violent protests the previous year.

Protesters hold blank white pieces of paper during a protest on Sunday. Demonstrations against China's strict Covid restrictions have erupted in various cities

Students take part in a protest against COVID-19 curbs at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a series of demonstrations rocks the country
Demonstrators in Moscow have also used them this year to protest Russia's war with Ukraine.
Several Internet users showed solidarity by posting blank white squares or photos of themselves holding blank sheets of paper on their WeChat timelines or on Weibo.
By Sunday morning, the hashtag 'white paper exercise' was blocked on Weibo, prompting users to lament the censorship.
'If you fear a blank sheet of paper, you are weak inside,' one Weibo user posted.

What is happening to protesters?​

So far, China has not massively cracked down on the protests, for fear of encouraging a greater backlash.
Some police in Shanghai used pepper spray to drive away demonstrators, and some protesters were detained and driven away in a bus.
However, China's vast internal security apparatus is famed for identifying people it considers troublemakers and carting them off from their homes when few are watching.
Police in Shanghai also beat, kicked and handcuffed a BBC journalist who was filming the protests.
Shocking video from the anti-government protests in Shanghai shows Edward Lawrence, a camera operator for the BBC's China Bureau, being dragged away by Xi's officers as he desperately screams 'Call the consulate now' to a friend.
Police in China break up protest over latest COVID restrictions

Footage also shows the journalist helpless on the ground with three aggressive officers in high-vis jackets standing over him and pulling his arms behind his back
Mr Lawrence was beaten and kicked by the police officers and held in custody for 'several hours' before being released, as Chinese officials sought to crack down on the media and protesters in the city.
The British journalist said today that at least one local was arrested after they tried to stop the police from beating him during his arrest.
The Shanghai police officers tried to dismiss the arrest as being for Mr Lawrence's 'own good', claiming that he was arrested 'in case he caught Covid from the crowd'. The BBC dismissed the farfetched explanation as implausible.

Why are riots significant?​

Such widespread demonstrations are unprecedented since the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square that was crushed with deadly force by the army.
Then, tanks and heavily armed troops marched on the square, firing and crushing protesters calling for political and economic reform.
Now, anger over lockdowns has also transformed into calls for broader political change, with some in Shanghai early on Sunday even chanting 'Xi Jinping, step down! CCP, step down!'
Students protesting at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University on Sunday chanted 'democracy and the rule of law, freedom of expression'.

This iconic image showing a lone protester staring down a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in June 1989, has become a symbol of anti-government resistance in China
And demonstrators in Beijing on Sunday night shouted slogans demanding 'freedom of art' and 'freedom to write!'
The unrest is unlike anything Xi has had to face in his 10 years of power which have been marked by growing authoritarianism which has seen few outbursts of dissent.
'I don't recall public protests directly calling for press freedom in the past two decades,' political scientist Maria Repnikova said in a tweet.
'What is very intriguing about these protests is how single-issue focus on #covidlockdown quickly transpired into wider political issues,' she said.
Largely young and social media savvy, protesters have organised on the web and used canny tricks to protest against state censorship - from holding up blank papers to online articles consisting of nonsense combinations of 'positive' words to draw attention to the lack of free speech.
'The protesters are very young, and anger from the bottom is very, very strong,' the NUS's Wu said.

A security officer attempts to prevent pictures from being taken, at a gate to Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, November 27, 2022
What will particularly spook the party's leadership, analysts said, is the protesters' rage at China's top brass. This, they argue, is unprecedented since the pro-democracy rallies in 1989 that were ruthlessly crushed.
'In terms of both the scale and intensity, this is the single largest protest by young people in China since the student movement in 1989,' Willy Wo-Lap Lam, Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, told AFP.
'In 1989, students were very careful not to attack the party leadership by name. This time they have been very specific (about wanting a) change in leadership.'
The scope of the protests - from elite universities in Beijing to central Chinese cities such as Wuhan and Chengdu - is notable, Lam said.
Other analysts cautioned against comparisons to the bloody events of 1989.
'There may not be overarching demand for political reform beyond ending zero-Covid,' Chenchen Zhang, an assistant professor at Durham University, tweeted. 'The urban youth today grew up with economic growth, social media, globalised popular culture.'
'The past should not limit our imagination.'
Rare public protests in China are typically focused on local officials and firms, with Beijing 'cast in a benevolent light to come in and rescue people from local corruption', said one expert.
'In these protests, the central government is now being targeted because people understand that zero-Covid is a central policy,' Mary Gallagher, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, told AFP.
Experts were divided on whether Beijing will respond with the carrot or the stick.
'Anger is very strong, but you can't arrest everyone,' Wu said.

What will happen next?​

It is likely the leadership will be forced to confront the protests if they continue as is predicted.
Emily Feng from NPR said today: 'Several online groups are organising ongoing visuals for tonight so there is every indication these protests are going to continue.
'China is now essentially a massive surveillance state, they have the ability to track what people are talking about. The question is what will the state do next.
'They have been arresting people who are showing up to these demonstrations, they've been arresting people for sharing videos about these demonstrations.

Police detain a protester in Shanghai today as more people gather to criticise the Zero Covid policy

Police form a cordon during a protest against China's strict zero COVID measures in Beijing
'But they also don't want to crack down too hard too early because that could create martyrs, that could create more unrest and therefore more protests going forward.
'It's a very very difficult situation they're in right now and protesters are taking full advantage of that by making sure their voices are heard online and around the world.'
Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, described the role of police as delicate.
'There will be considerable sympathy, especially with younger officers, for the protesters. So giving the order to crackdown brings risks too,' he told AFP.
The leadership will likely be forced to confront the unrest publicly.
'Xi or other top-level leaders will have to come out sooner or later. If not, there is a risk that the protests would continue later,' Lam said.
With the protests entering their third day, experts said it was likely the rallies would continue. 'It seems to me that the discontent is rising, rather than falling,' Frankopan said.

Covid protests in China: Timeline​

Discontent has brewed for months in China over the country's zero-Covid policy, with relentless mass testing, localised lockdowns and travel restrictions pushing many across the country to the brink.
And those frustrations have now spilled onto the streets of some of China's biggest cities as protesters call for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms.
Here is a timeline of key Covid-related protests since the start of the year.
- Shanghai frustrations -
A gruelling lockdown in Shanghai from late March bought the first visible glimmers of widespread dissent against Covid restrictions.
The measures sparked sporadic protests and food shortages - both almost unheard of in China's richest metropolis.
In April, a six-minute video montage of audio clips of despairing residents quickly went viral in China before being censored.
Social media users posted the video in multiple formats to evade censorship, in the biggest wave of online protest since the Wuhan Covid whistleblower and doctor Li Wenliang died in February 2020.
- Campus protests -
In May, hundreds of students at one campus of the elite Peking University in Beijing protested against strict lockdown measures that allowed more freedom of movement for staff than students.
The rare protest was later defused after officials agreed to relax some restrictions.
Campuses across China have been locked down for virtually the entire pandemic, barring visitors and preventing students from returning home easily.
- Henan bank protests -
From May to July, hundreds of bank depositors, who lost their money when multiple rural banks in Henan province froze deposits, gathered in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to demonstrate.
Some protesters reported that their Covid health codes inexplicably turned red upon arrival at Zhengzhou, barring them from travel, and accused officials of tampering with the system.
Health codes are used in contact tracing and linked to ID documents. In many cities across China, scanning a health code is a requirement to enter public spaces and use public transport.
- Tibet protests -
In October, hundreds in the tightly policed Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa staged a rare demonstration, against a harsh lockdown that persisted for almost three months.
Videos showed hundreds of people - who appeared to be mostly migrant workers of Han Chinese ethnicity - marching through the streets, demanding to be allowed to return home.
Protests were geolocated to an area near the Potala Palace, the traditional residence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.
- Beijing bridge -
That same month, just days before China's ruling party was set to open a landmark congress, a defiant protester draped two hand-painted banners with slogans criticising the Communist Party's policies on the side of a bridge in Beijing.
'No Covid tests, I want to make a living. No Cultural Revolution, I want reforms. No lockdowns, I want freedom. No leaders, I want to vote. No lies, I want dignity. I won't be a slave, I'll be a citizen,' one banner read.
The other banner called on citizens to go on strike and remove 'the traitorous dictator Xi Jinping'.
- Guangzhou clashes -
In November, protesters in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou clashed with police, after lockdowns were extended due to a surge in infections.
Videos circulating on social media and verified by AFP showed hundreds taking to the street, some tearing down cordons intended to keep locked-down residents from leaving their homes.
'No more testing,' protesters chanted, with some throwing debris at police.
- Foxconn protests -
Violent protests erupted at the world's largest iPhone factory, in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province.
Hundreds of staff at the plant, owned by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn, marched because of disputes over pay and conditions, with some clashes between protesters and riot police.
Foxconn later offered new recruits a bonus equivalent to $1,400 to end their contracts and leave, in a bid to stamp out the unrest.
The sprawling factory with more than 200,000 workers has been under lockdown since October after a surge in Covid infections.
- Urumqi protests -
Hundreds took to the streets of Xinjiang's regional capital Urumqi in late November, according to videos circulating on social media, calling for an end to lockdown measures that have affected the region for the past three months.
Footage partially verified by AFP showed them massing outside the city government offices during the night, chanting: 'Lift lockdowns!'
The protests occurred after a fire killed 10 people in a city apartment block. Social media users claimed lockdown measures prevented residents from leaving their homes in time and delayed access to the compound by emergency services.
The rare mass protests in the tightly policed region sparked a wave of similar unrest and mourning vigils across Chinese cities and campuses.

 

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China fights to escape Xi's lockdown tyranny: Protesters turn streets into warzones, with hazmat-clad Covid-enforcers cowering under riot shields as bottles rain down on them and police strong-arming demonstrators​

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...esters-clash-hazmat-clad-Covid-enforcers.html

[vids at site link, above]

• Protesters clashed with riot police in southern Chinese city of Guangzhou
• Demonstrators threw glass bottles at police as they cowered under riot shields
• Riot police man-handled protesters and arrested scores of demonstrators

By RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:22 EST, 30 November 2022 | UPDATED: 08:24 EST, 30 November 2022

Protesters screamed as they threw glass bottles at scores of cowering hazmat-clad riot police in China last night, as demonstrators continue to defy President Xi Jinping's brutal Communist regime and his disastrous zero-Covid policies.
The sound of shouts and the smashing of glass pierced the night air in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, as the defiant and frustrated protesters clashed with riot police carrying shields.
Hundreds of riot police, seen wearing hazmat suits for the first time, advanced towards and dragged screaming protesters away to unknown locations in dystopian scenes.
The violent protests mark some of the strongest dissent China has seen for over 30 years - but despite Beijing cracking down on protesters with ruthless violence, demonstrators are still defiantly turning out on the streets and fighting back against Xi's officials.
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There have been violent protests in China before - but these protests, which have extended from Beijing to Shanghai, are different because they are spontaneous, nation-wide and directed at the central government.
The protests mark the most overt threat against Xi's government and his brutal Communist regime since he took power 10 years ago.
In Guangzhou, angry protesters threw anything they could find - including glass bottles - at the police officers, who cowered under their riot shields.
The violent clashes prompted a fierce rebuke, with officers dragging screaming protesters away to unknown locations.
Earlier on Tuesday night, locals shopping in a market watched on as a steady stream of riot police officers marched in formation through the streets of Guangzhou.
The arrival of hundreds of riot police escalated tensions in the city and video shows demonstrators throwing glass bottles at the officials in chaotic and violent scenes.
The riot police were seen tightly bunched together, with rows of officers protecting themselves from the incoming onslaught of glass with their see-through shields.
In the video, people should be screaming and shouting in frustration at the brutal crackdown against protesters who are demonstrating against Xi's zero-Covid policy which has seen millions placed under strict lockdowns for months.
The riot police ruthlessly threw a tear gas cannister towards the demonstrators in a narrow street, prompting panic among the protesters who tried to run away from the fumes.

Riot police were later seen man-handling protesters and dragging a row of people in handcuffs to an unknown location

Riot police in personal protection suits (PPE) walk down a street, during protests over coronavirus disease restrictions, in Guangzhou on Tuesday night
Nearly a dozen protesters, their hands bound with cable ties, were seen being dragged away by the police officers to an unknown location.
The violent scenes - which are rare in China's authoritarian state - comes as Beijing's top security body warned last night that the police would 'crack down' on the protests.
The demonstrations are the most widespread since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, where hundreds - if not thousands - of Chinese protesters were killed by soldiers in tanks.
The protests erupted over the weekend across major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, with China's vast security apparatus moving swiftly to smother any further unrest.
The catalyst for the protests was an apartment fire last week in the western city of Urumqi in which ten people died. Many speculated that Covid curbs in the city, parts of which had been under lockdown for 100 days, had hindered rescue and escape.
'Things reached a tipping point, we had to come out,' Yang, 32, an office worker from Shanghai, said.
While united against China's stifling 'zero-COVID' measures, a number of Chinese people have spoken of a yearning for broader political freedoms, 33 years after students occupied China's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Considering herself part of a small 'liberal bubble' in Shanghai - China's most cosmopolitan city - Yang did not imagine so many people sharing her frustrations in a country that has grown increasingly authoritarian in the decade since Xi assumed power.
'This is the first time in my life I've done something like this,' she said. 'In my heart, I've murmured such things a thousand times, but hearing these slogans suddenly chanted by so many real people was exciting and shocking to me.'
For many in other cities, the COVID lockdowns have exacerbated a sense of powerlessness.
'The protests are happening because under the COVID prevention measures people can't satisfy their fundamental needs to survive,' said Jiayin, who took part in a demonstration in Guangzhou, a southern city with some of China's highest recent infection numbers.

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Riot police in personal protection suits (PPE) walk down a street, during protests over coronavirus disease restrictions, in Guangzhou on Tuesday night. A riot police vehicle was also seen
A Guangzhou resident surnamed Chen said on Wednesday that he witnessed around 100 police officers converge on Houjiao village in Haizhu district and arrest at least three men on Tuesday night.
Anger over China's zero-Covid policies - which involves lockdowns of huge numbers of people and has strangled the economy - has been the trigger for the protests.
A deadly fire last week in Urumqi, the capital of the northwestern region of Xinjiang, was the catalyst for the outrage, with people blaming Covid curbs for trapping victims inside the burning building.
But demonstrators have also demanded much wider political reforms in communist China, with some even calling for President Xi Jinping to stand down.
Signalling its zero-tolerance approach to the protests, China's top security body called for a 'crackdown' on what it described as 'hostile forces'.
The body - which oversees all domestic law enforcement in China - also agreed at its meeting that it was time to 'crack down on illegal criminal acts that disrupt social order' as well as 'safeguard overall social stability'.
The warning came after a heavy police presence across Beijing and Shanghai on Tuesday appeared to have quelled protests in those cities.
Authorities have sought to intimidate protesters by going to their houses and taking them to police stations.
China: Residents stranded as roads in lockdown zone blocked

Riot police in personal protection suits (PPE) arrive during protests over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, in Guangzhou, on Tuesday
'Police came to my front door to ask me about it all and get me to complete a written record,' a Beijing resident who declined to be identified told Reuters on Wednesday.
Another resident said some friends who posted videos of protests on social media were taken to a police station and asked to sign a promise they 'would not do that again'.
On Wednesday, several police cars and security personnel were posted at an eastern Beijing bridge where a protest took place three days earlier.

Some rallies did go ahead elsewhere on Monday and Tuesday, however.
At Hong Kong's oldest university, over a dozen people led the crowd Tuesday in chanting slogans such as 'give me liberty or give me death'.
'We are not foreign forces, we are Chinese citizens. China should have different voices,' one woman shouted, while another held a placard mourning victims of the Urumqi fire.
Police violently arrest anti-Covid lockdown protesters in Hangzhou, China

Dramatic video shows a woman screaming as she is arrested by six police officers and dragged away from a main square in Hangzhou, as Chinese officials sought to crack down on protesters in the city
In Hangzhou, just over 170 kilometres (105 miles) southwest of Shanghai, there was heavy security and sporadic protests in the city's downtown on Monday night.
China's strict control of information and continued travel curbs have made verifying protester numbers across the vast country very challenging.
But the widespread rallies seen over the weekend are exceptionally rare in China and it comes as China's economy sputters after growing at breakneck rates for decades.
That era of prosperity was fundamental for the social contract between the Communist Party and a population whose freedoms have been dramatically curtailed since President Xi Jinping took power 10 years ago.
The latest unrest has drawn global attention, with solidarity protests springing up from Melbourne to Washington.
In China, Covid has spread despite Beijing largely isolating itself from the world and demanding significant sacrifices from hundreds of millions to comply with relentless testing and prolonged isolation, three years into the pandemic.
Hazmat suited officials try to hold on to roadblock in China

In China, Covid has spread despite Beijing largely isolating itself from the world and demanding significant sacrifices from hundreds of millions to comply with relentless testing and prolonged isolation, three years into the pandemic. Pictured: Covid cases in China have now surpassed the peak of April this year
China's National Health Commission (NHC) announced on Tuesday a renewed effort to expand low vaccination rates among the elderly - long seen as a key obstacle to relaxing the measures.
Many fear that opening the country up while swaths of the population remain not fully immunised could overwhelm China's healthcare system and cause more than a million deaths.
China logged 37,612 domestic cases Wednesday, down from record highs over the weekend and comparatively tiny compared to caseloads in the West at the height of the pandemic.
The lockdowns have hammered the economy, disrupting global supply chains and roiling financial markets.
Data on Wednesday showed China's manufacturing and services activity for November posting the lowest readings since Shanghai's two-month lockdown began in April.
Chinese stocks were steady, with markets weighing endemic economic weakness against hopes that the public pressure could push China to eventually reopen.
International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva flagged a possible downgrade in China growth forecasts.