China’s emergence from that period was abrupt, marking a rare recent instance where public frustrations erupted into protests that prompted a government response. Just five months after the end of the Shanghai lockdown, a deadly residential building fire in Xinjiang ignited China’s White Paper protests.

Residents took to the streets protesting with blank A4 sheets of paper, to express their dissatisfaction with the government’s strict COVID measures.

  • @[email protected]
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    -912 hours ago

    Ah right, they’re cookers who don’t like public health measures. There’s great reasons not to want to live in the PRC, I’m sure, but this isn’t one of 'em.

    • @[email protected]
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      912 hours ago

      China literally welded peoples into their apartments. Let’s not act like opposition to them was the same as the opposition to normal Covid prevention measures that we all experienced.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      612 hours ago

      Cookers? The Chinese covid lockdowns were pretty draconian. They were locking people in their apartment buildings.