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A few months ago, there were widespread protests on the handling of covid in China. Since then, many covid restrictions have been eased and Hong Kong's mask pol
by yellow_lead 4y ago
A few months ago, there were widespread protests on the handling of covid in China. Since then, many covid restrictions have been eased and Hong Kong's mask policy was even recently lifted.
So protesting works, and Chinese people (young/old) do have power. (A fair amount of covid protests were held by university students btw)
- chaostheory 4y agoThey don’t have as much power as people who can vote. Also the COVID tracking apps have been very effective at neutralizing protests like the ones over provincial bank failures. Let’s also not forget what happened to the student protesters at Tiananmen. All they have to do is get multiple army regiments from neighboring provinces, and they’ll have no qualms with massacring civilians. Because as we all know, people outside your own province and state aren’t real people /s All they have to do is declare martial law Still, I hope you’re right and that I’m very wrong