American Greatness “Give me liberty or give me death!” is the outcry in China, where the regime’s COVID-19 policies blocked emergency workers from accessing the scene of a fire and 10 people perished. Protests then spread to cities across China, with chants for free speech, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and even for Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping to step down. That brought in the police, but protesters pushed back.
“I think in a just society, no one should be criminalized for their speech,” one Beijing protester told reporters. In Chengdu they chanted “We don’t want lifelong rulers. We don’t want emperors!” they shouted, another reference to Xi Jinping, but there was more to it.
“We all know that the reason why we have to keep undergoing lockdowns and COVID tests is that this is a political movement, not a scientific and logical response of epidemic prevention,” another woman told the press. “That’s why we have more political demands other than lifting lockdowns.”…
