by Chris Spargo, Daily Mail:
Police attack anti-lockdown activists on bus and rallies openly call for Xi to resign as fury over Zero-Covid policy flares for THIRD day after deadly flat fire
- Hordes of students have staged a huge protest at Tsinghua university in Beijing over CCP’s Covid controls
- Comes hours after mass protests broke out on Saturday night in Shanghai – China’s biggest financial hub
- ‘Lift lockdown for Urumqi, lift lockdown for Xinjiang, lift lockdown for China!’ the crowds in Shanghai chanted
- At one point a large group began shouting, ‘Down with the Chinese Communist Party, down with Xi Jinping, free Urumqi!’, according to witnesses and videos in a rare public protest against the Chinese leadership
- Public fury forced authorities in Xinjiang to open up parts of the capital Urumqi – subject to a punishing ‘zero-Covid’ lockdown for over 3 months – after at least ten people in a fire at a locked-down apartment block
- China is battling a surge in infections that prompted yet more brutal lockdowns and restrictions across nation
- Beijing is attempting to stick to a zero-covid policy even as much of the world tries to coexist with the virus
