“Whatever the immediate outcomes of the protests,” writes the Chinese-American academic in a guest essay, “they will probably influence policy for the remainder of President Xi Jinping’s time in power”
eruption of anti-lockdown protests across China in the past week caught its leaders—and the world—by surprise. The first demonstrations took place in Xinjiang and Shanghai and the Chinese Communist Party , which has crushed countless mass protests in the past with ruthless efficiency, scrambled to respond.
The protests were the most politically charged public expression of discontent since the crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement in June 1989. People from different social backgrounds—university students, migrant labourers and wealthy city-dwellers—joined forces in denouncing the inadequacies of their government’s harsh zero-covid policy. As the’s greatest fear is criticism from a coalition of diverse groups, the anti-lockdown protests augur badly for the government.
For a regime obsessed with preserving its tough image, the political defiance of the recent protests will seem shocking. The gatherings were initially triggered by allegations that a local lockdown was responsible for the deaths of ten residents in a burning building in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, on November 24th. But some protesters quickly directed their anger at Mr Xi and the, calling for them to “step down”.
To be sure, fear of government reprisals probably kept more disgruntled people from joining the protests. But the fact that such politically charged protests can happen at all under pervasive state surveillance may well have diminished fear of the party and its security apparatus. That means theMr Xi also faces the task of reburnishing his image in the wake of the protests.
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