It is hard to know really. Nobody is incentivised to report the true scale of the protests. If the scale of the protests were laughably small and of no concern

It is hard to know really. Nobody is incentivised to report the true scale of the protests. If the scale of the protests were laughably small and of no concern to the CCP, it could just be a coincidence that China announced their scientists have determined Omicron has ‘reduced pathogenicity’ [1], as a pretext to relaxing restrictions. [1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1280880.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1280880.shtml