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Socialist Alternative publishes "China collapsing any day now" article.
(www.socialistalternative.org)
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Yes, there were big protests against Zero Covid after a while. The absurd thing about the narrative of it being "brutal" and "totalitarian" is that the Zero Covid policies were all carried out by neighborhood volunteer organizations, not the police or the military. When the protests started, the central government quickly realized that the only way to keep enforcing it would be through the kind of overwhelming police crackdown that the western press imagined was happening, so they ended the policy instead. What happened does possibly signal a new future for Chinese politics, but not for the reasons that this article or the liberal western press says:
Politics In Command? – China In The New Era And That Interesting Little Thing That Happened In November 2022
Add Oil! – The Tragedy of Zero-Covid
like you said, the protests were actually representative of how democratic the Chinese government is. people got sick of the COVID policies, started protesting for a few weeks? months? and the Chinese government instantly responded and started loosening restrictions.
can you imagine anything similar in a Western country? people have been protesting the genocide of Palestinians since October 7th and the Biden regime is just saying "fuck you, vote for us or you're supporting Trump". no one even thinks protests do anything anymore.