October 13, 2022 By Thomas Lifson
Ultra-rare anti-Xi demonstration breaks out in Beijing days before Party Congress set to install him as dictator-for-life
The Chinese Party Congress set to open on Sunday already has Xi Jinping on edge. These gatherings happen only every five years, and this time it is expected to ratify his plan to void term limits and make him in effect dictator-for-life. While it is impossible for outsiders to know the extent of opposition to Xi, almost certainly there are factions that are dead set against this move, based on personal and regional loyalties if not on opposition to his policies and intention to make himself another Mao Zedong.
Thus, a demonstration attacking Xi that broke out in an affluent neighborhood of Beijing must have irritated a man who probably already is on pins and needles. Such demonstrations are extremely rare, especially anything directly attacking Xi. In the Chinese context they are shocking...........
This may have been the work of one brave man, who reportedly (on
Twitter) was arrested. But the draconian “zero Covid” policy of Xi has
no doubt alienated many Chinese people, who have been subjected to
extreme hardship, business and factory lockdowns, and isolation in their
homes or evacuation centers. Seeing open defiance in an area of Beijing
where many ruling class people live has got to shake up Xi, at last a
little.........To Read More.....
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