[jyl]

More and more reports and videos of anti-lockdown protests, demonstrations, and quasi-riots in China over last few days. Not just in Xinjiang or a Foxconn compound; in Shanghai and other cities too. So far security forces not doing much; speculation they were taken by surprise and waiting for orders. Interesting that Chinese censors are not managing to suppress this. I imagine that what gets out to the West is only a small part of what is circulating on social media in China.

For those not following China news, the scale and intensity of Xi’s Covid lockdowns is dimensions beyond anything ever done in the West. Our previous “please wear a mask” efforts are nothing like what Chinese have been going through.