{"id":517802,"date":"2022-11-29T03:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chinese-protests-arent-about-covid-theyre-about-a-dictatorship\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T03:36:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:36:30","slug":"chinese-protests-arent-about-covid-theyre-about-a-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinese-protests-arent-about-covid-theyre-about-a-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chinese protests aren&#8217;t about COVID \u2014 they&#8217;re about a dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a29ae6e8b609\" 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-6a29ae6e8b609\" 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\/chinese-protests-arent-about-covid-theyre-about-a-dictatorship\/#%E2%80%9CChinese_protests_arent_about_COVID_%E2%80%94_theyre_about_a_dictatorship%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Chinese protests aren&#8217;t about COVID \u2014 they&#8217;re about a dictatorship&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CChinese_protests_arent_about_COVID_%E2%80%94_theyre_about_a_dictatorship%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Chinese protests aren&#8217;t about COVID \u2014 they&#8217;re about a dictatorship&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>At a protest rally in Beijing this week, a Chinese Communist Party official warned the gathering protestors not to be misguided by \u201cforeign influence.\u201d An angry protestor quipped back from the crowd, \u201cby foreign influence do you mean Marx and Engels?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, a street protestor in the hinterland metropolis Chongqing eloquently addressed a cheering crowd, \u201cthere is only one type of disease in the world \u2014 lack of freedom and poverty. We have it both in China!\u201d After he quoted Patrick Henry \u201cGive me liberty or give me death!\u201d repeatedly, the police tried to arrest him, only to be repulsed by an angry crowd who promptly overwhelmed the fully armed police and rescued the protestor.<\/p>\n<p>This is the source of both the Chinese regime\u2019s draconian conduct and the protests that erupted this past weekend. Neither is really about COVID. It\u2019s about the battle between communism and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a remarkable consistency of the CCP\u2019s ideology. Xi\u2019s COVID-Zero policies are motivated by the same thinking that drove Mao in the 1950s to believe the omnipotent Chinese Communist Party could eradicate all the rats and sparrows in China. <\/p>\n<p>Mao\u2019s draconian Great Leap Forward led to the deaths of more than 40 million Chinese people. Xi\u2019s draconian COVID-zero policy threatens to do the same. They are motivated by a purely totalitarian ideology which assumes not only the complete malleability of nature, but the utter infallibility and invincibility of the Party that could easily destroy nature and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/xi-jinping.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping's strict COVID measures are motivated by totalitarian control.\" class=\"wp-image-24820315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s strict COVID measures are motivated by totalitarian control.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jack Taylor\/Pool Photo via AP, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blinded by this radical utopian vision, the CCP is consistently callous towards its people\u2019s well-being, but this callousness has traditionally impacted more on migrant workers and the rural poor. This time, the Party\u2019s all-encompassing COVID-Zero lockdowns have affected the property-owning and educated middle class and the rich, and this brings with it unintended consequences. Millions of Chinese people across the nation, from all sections of the repressed country, are now willing to risk imprisonment, torture, and even death to stand up to their oppressors. <\/p>\n<p>And this is singularly significant. This national uprising disproves the prevailing pessimism in the West towards the possibility of substantial grassroots resistance to the CCP. We are now seeing that silence does not necessarily indicate capitulation to repression. The possibility of resistance is ever present, if only the opportunity presents itself.<\/p>\n<p>The anger and desire for freedom being expressed by the Chinese people today has brewed for some time, and the courage of the people has grown alongside these feelings. Each Chinese citizen who stands up becomes a beacon of courage and inspiration to many more. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/china-protest-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A protester getting arrested during a demonstration in Shanghai on November 27, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24820316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/china-protest-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/china-protest-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/china-protest-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A protester getting arrested during a demonstration in Shanghai on November 27, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is no doubt that many of the people risking their lives today in the streets of Chinese cities were inspired by the \u201cbanner man\u201d who, last month, unfurled banners on Beijing\u2019s Third Ring Road with slogans such as \u201cremove the traitor-dictator Xi Jinping,\u201d \u201cfreedom, not lockdowns,\u201d and \u201ccitizens, not slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese people understand their regime better than anyone. Not only do they see the CCP for what it is, they look outward and see what China could be. The common street music among China\u2019s protestors today was the battle hymn of the Hong Kong protesters three years ago that includes lyrics such as \u201cdo you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men . . . it is the music of the people who will not be slaves again!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The next few days will be crucial for the Party, Chinese dissidents, and the leaders of the free world. Each side is regrouping, and there can be no doubt that the CCP is seriously contemplating brutal and bloody crackdowns. <\/p>\n<p>Now, more than ever, it is imperative that leaders in the free world openly express their support for the Chinese people, and their condemnation of the CCP\u2019s repression. This has been a primary aim of Hudson Institute\u2019s China Center, through a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of videos entitled Evening Chats, in which 70th Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks directly to the Chinese people about the repression of the CCP and the universality of liberty and human rights. <\/p>\n<p>Our current leaders must take up this charge and they must do so with zero ambiguity. <\/p>\n<p><em>Miles Yu is Senior Fellow and director of China Center at Hudson Institute<\/em>\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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