{"id":517182,"date":"2022-11-28T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fury-over-chinas-insane-endless-covid-lockdowns-exposes-president-xi\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T02:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T23:00:01","slug":"fury-over-chinas-insane-endless-covid-lockdowns-exposes-president-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fury-over-chinas-insane-endless-covid-lockdowns-exposes-president-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fury over China&#8217;s insane, endless COVID lockdowns exposes President Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf2bb16b4c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf2bb16b4c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fury-over-chinas-insane-endless-covid-lockdowns-exposes-president-xi\/#%E2%80%9CFury_over_Chinas_insane_endless_COVID_lockdowns_exposes_President_Xi%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Fury over China&#8217;s insane, endless COVID lockdowns exposes President Xi&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFury_over_Chinas_insane_endless_COVID_lockdowns_exposes_President_Xi%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Fury over China&#8217;s insane, endless COVID lockdowns exposes President Xi&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/China_Cuba_49929jpg-e7b90-e1669588895173.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cNeed human rights, need freedom,\u201d chanted hundreds of protesters Saturday night in Shanghai, along with \u201cDon\u2019t want Covid test, want freedom!\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t want dictatorship, want democracy!\u201d Plus demands for President Xi Jinping to \u201cstep down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s insane \u201cZero COVID\u201d policies and the endless severe lockdowns they require are a disaster for the nation. And the protests show they\u2019re helping turn China\u2019s people against Communist Party rule. <\/p>\n<p>Police moved in at 3 a.m. Saturday night to shut down the Shanghai protests, but hundreds returned on Sunday, now chanting \u201cRelease the people\u201d of those arrested hours earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other cities across China <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/Nanjing and Guangzhou\">saw more protests<\/a> \u2014 mostly triggered by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> out of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang in the far west, where 10 people <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-xinjiang-region-has-been-locked-down-for-months-casting-shadow-over-zero-covid-easing-11669371218\">died<\/a> in an apartment-building fire and Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> lit up with charges that the city\u2019s lockdown made rescues and escapes harder. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Yet Xi and his minions have chased their \u201czero COVID\u201d fantasy ever since the virus broke out in Wuhan in early 2020, routinely imposing harsh lockdowns on the helpless public,  regularly even barring residents of entire neighborhoods and even whole cities from leaving their homes. Some 70 cities face lockdown restriction at the moment; Beijing itself has been reportedly coming to a new near-halt.<\/p>\n<p>This, when official Chinese stats show only that nationwide daily new cases have \u201cshot up\u201d to above 30,000, just .002% of the country\u2019s population of 1.4 billion, with a tiny death toll. <\/p>\n<p>But Xi is obsessed with showing the superiority of totalitarian rule \u2014 that the obsessive shutdowns of any area where COVID pops up are keeping China safe, far more so than other, freer nations have been able to manage. The people plainly aren\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n<p>And never mind the cost to China\u2019s economy, whose growth has slowed to a near-halt as factories keep shutting down. (Other Xi policies, like restoring Communist Party domination of the private sector, also feed the slowdown.) Globally, Xi\u2019s misrule threatens to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-recovery-hopes-crushed-by-record-covid-outbreak-as-lockdowns-spread-11669276266\">trigger new supply-chain issues<\/a> that can wreak havoc on China\u2019s trading partners. <\/p>\n<p>A month ago, Xi seemed unstoppable, winning his third term as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> secretary of China\u2019s Communist Party, setting him up to remain paramount leader for life. But a nation in flames over his trademark policy puts his dominance of the CCP in doubt \u2014 with the CCP\u2019s own total control of the country suddenly facing <em>its <\/em>worst challenge in at least a generation.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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