[arista]

[SkyNews
China: Anti-lockdown protesters return to
same spot in Shanghai after being
pepper-sprayed by police

China is the only major country
still fighting COVID with lockdowns and mass testing but,
after living with extreme restrictions for months,
many citizens have had enough.]
https://news.sky.com/story/rare-prot...tigue-12756279


[BBC :23:59 27 Nov Live Feed
Protests represent dire situation for President Xi]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-63776816]

[arista]

[arista]

[Mystic Mock]

Well it's nice to see that the Chinese people have a backbone after all.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Well it's nice to see that the Chinese people have a backbone after all.

They have had this for 3 years or more
some willing to Die, for these protests.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by arista

They have had this for 3 years or more
some willing to Die, for these protests.

It's a horrible situation for them to be in.

Sadly though there doesn't seem to be a peaceful path for them to take.

[bots]

its not a dire situation for the president at all. He can snuff out the protests with a wave of his hand and anyone that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

its not a dire situation for the president at all. He can snuff out the protests with a wave of his hand and anyone that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves

Yes that's true,
Weekends appear to be the best time for protests.
But President Xi
has his Massive Paid Army
to come in whenever he chooses.

[Crimson Dynamo]

take off the silly masks protestors

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

take off the silly masks protestors

They have to keep them on.

[arista]

BBC Cameraman was beat up and kicked to the
ground by the Police,
At least they did not Kill him.

https://news.sky.com/story/protests-...nrest-12756943.

China Police
have told the BBC
the cameraman was kept for many hours
to save him catching Covid-19

[Quantum Boy]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

its not a dire situation for the president at all. He can snuff out the protests with a wave of his hand and anyone that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves

I don't think so, the "illusion" of the possibility of a pseudo-Western-style life is essential to modern urban China and has been increasingly so as their economy has developed. There's a very good reason they haven't thrown full support behind Russia for example - they CANNOT swallow economic sanctions the way Russia can.

Second to that, the population of China is now sitting at nearly 1.4 billion and 2/3 of that (900 million) is Urban. ANY sort of control the government has is purely based in illusion. Their entire military couldn't stop an actual uprising. The scale is quite unimaginable ... the population of China today is more than the population of the entire planet less than 150 years ago.

[arista]

The 10 public that died, were
all locked in an Apartment Building
that caught Fire


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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...jing-next.html

[Cherie]

Zero covid is some kind of fantasy

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Zero covid is some kind of fantasy

Yes, but their Leader
Demands Zero Covid

They are stuck with it.


China created this Evil disease,
many fear another world deadly
virus will start in his nation.

[MTVN]

They are even not airing any close up shots of the crowd from the World Cup because their citizens will see people from countries all over the world mixing with each other without fear and without masks while they are still locked in their homes. It's nearly 3 years now since they started with this

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Zero covid is some kind of fantasy

Hello Mariah.

[Crimson Dynamo]

[QUOTE=arista;11234182]Yes, but their Leader
Demands Zero Covid

They are stuck with it.


China created this Evil disease,
many fear another world deadly

i have no sympathy for this vile nation

enjoy

[arista]

SkyNews Text:
[Rishi Sunak signalling the end of
the "golden era" of relations between
Britain and China.]

[arista]

[bots]

i stand by my earlier post, china will quash any protest ruthlessly

[arista]

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i stand by my earlier post, china will quash any protest ruthlessly

Yes, more could die
No one can stop him.

[Quantum Boy]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i stand by my earlier post, china will quash any protest ruthlessly

And I stand by my caveat; "if it's small enough". Like I said if any significant portion of the Chinese citizenry was to attempt an uprising, it wouldn't be a matter of wanting to quash it - of course they would want to - but the simple resources needed to do that effectively would be staggering. The worrying thing of course is that, with that being the case, they might resort to making a few high-profile examples in the hopes that other areas would disband in fear.

HOWEVER they do know full well that the West won't buy from them if they push too hard at that door and again, unlike Russia who can survive out in the cold for a while (not happily, but they can survive) China is ultimately still a manufacturing economy that needs a market ... they are crippled without trade.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

And I stand by my caveat; "if it's small enough". Like I said if any significant portion of the Chinese citizenry was to attempt an uprising, it wouldn't be a matter of wanting to quash it - of course they would want to - but the simple resources needed to do that effectively would be staggering. The worrying thing of course is that, with that being the case, they might resort to making a few high-profile examples in the hopes that other areas would disband in fear.

HOWEVER they do know full well that the West won't buy from them if they push too hard at that door and again, unlike Russia who can survive out in the cold for a while (not happily, but they can survive) China is ultimately still a manufacturing economy that needs a market ... they are crippled without trade.

i think you are wrong, China got out the tanks before and they are more authoritarian now. Same as with Russia, big populations but they dont stand a chance.

Sunak used a new phrase yesterday, pragmatic. What that basically means is we wont take action when it hurts us. So we may say naughty China, but that will be it. USA won't do anything either