Daily News | As demonstrations erupt in China, Xi Jinping is caught in his own COVID trap
has gone viral amidst the explosion of protests across China against the government’s “zero COVID” policy.
“If the city government is wrong, it can only continue to be wrong,” Chongqing Superman shouts to an equally furious crowd . “Otherwise someone must be responsible.” The crowd cheers, and rescues Superman from the police who try to grab him. The government’s zero-COVID strategy of lockdowns — barricading neighborhoods and sealing apartment doors — has decimated Chinese businesses and impoverished many people. After two years, the population hoped for a relaxation of restrictions. Instead, they have reemerged in the wake of the Omicron variant., where 10 people died because a COVID lockdown trapped the victims, ignited national rage, along with small but furious crowds in major cities and on elite college campuses.
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