Feels like all of it. The calls to resign seem like blatant propaganda when we had covid lock down protests in the UK and Germany and they ended up being marches of Neonazis and transphobes and other fringe right wing nut jobs. When Chinese people do it (also the scale is completely unknown) they are justified against an authoritarian regime. The hypocrisy…
When the BBC report on the social media discourse as well, it feels like they are reporting on CIA backed misinformation campaigns. How much of the online discourse stirring up Xi sentiment is actually misinfo being reported to the west as a broad public sentiment. I reckon its a lot.
If you read this shit with a critical eye towards British and western economic and military interests it feels plain to see. But for the average idiot lib they read this and think, ‘wow omg China is so authoritarian, the poor people there have no freedom and they cry out for support’. But what do you expect…
All of it. Why should Xi care about a protest of 10,000 people at most in a city with 20 million people in a country with 1.4 billion people that has a 95.5% approval rating according to Harvard? TLDR AT MOST 0.05% of Shanghai’s population is protesting, you can do the math yourself if you don’t believe me. EDIT: also in the George Floyd protests people were literally lighting police stations on fire. Did America collapse then? No. Will China collapse because a minuscule amount of Shanghai’s population are dumbasses? Also no.
regardless of the total population, 10,000 people is not a small number for a protest.
Not 10,000; 10,000 at the ABSOLUTE MOST. Notice you’ve never seen pictures of these protests from above in the Western media, it’s likely just a few thousand or maybe even just a few hundred