From the Editorial Board: The brave protests mark the most significant display of defiance against the country’s Communist Party regime since the deadly demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Police officers detain a man in Shanghai, China, on Nov. 27, 2022. In a country where protests are swiftly quashed, many who gathered to voice their discontent over COVID-19 lockdown rules were uncertain about how far to go.
The brave protests mark the most significant display of defiance against the country’s Communist Party regime since the deadly demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989.At protests across the country, demonstrators have been holding aloft blank sheets of paper as a gesture against the Chinese government’s bids to censor or bury social media posts about the spread of dissent, and about the government’s role in an apartment building fire last week in the far western city of Urumqi.
Earlier this year, Shanghai, China’s financial capital, endured a two-month lockdown that took a devastating toll on residents’ mental health as well as on the city’s economic output. The situation was even worse in the far western province of Xinjiang, where Urumqi is located. Residents were barred from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days.
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