Chinese authorities are quietly rounding up people who protested COVID rules and attended vigils for those who died in lockdown.
commemorating the lives of the those who had died while trapped under lockdown conditions or because they were denied potentially life-saving care.
The demonstrations were also a powerful rebuke of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who has become closely associated with a suite of regulations loosely termed"zero COVID" and meant to keep coronavirus infection numbers near zero.nearly all of their zero-COVID policies. They eliminated extensive contact-tracing and quarantine systems, as well as mandatory coronavirus testing once required every two to three days.
That blame would be pinned on the Beijing editor and other journalists and writers, many of them young women, in the weeks ahead.On Nov. 26, passersby spontaneously began laying bouquets of flowers near the sign for Urumqi Road, a major commercial thoroughfare in the metropolis of Shanghai, in remembrance of the victims of the apartment fire in the city of Urumqi that the road was named after.
In Beijing, the editor and some of her friends were hoping to remember the victims of the Urumqi fire. They decided to join a vigil they had heard would be held along the Liangma River, which runs across central Beijing and through a ritzy commercial boardwalk.
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