Is China still a threat in 2023
People are protesting in China, they have come out on the streets. they are raising slogans against xi Jinping. They are demanding his resignation. but why, is China is the biggest prison in the world. covid is back with a vengeance in China. China is reporting a record number of covid cases, experts are now warning, hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected. is this a new wave?
We will learn about such power, that even the most powerful person of China, xi Jinping is afraid. And that is the people, 1.4 billion people, whom even the most powerful government in the world cannot control. Let us know why Protests are happening in China and how it can impact India.
Start of Protests
A fire broke out in a building in Urumqi in Xinjiang province of China. There was a street lockdown in this building for the last 100 days. That is, the authority had also closed the fire exit. People could not leave using these exits. And 10 people died in this. It was the fault of the local authority. But instead of accepting responsibility, they blamed those who died. And all this is not an incident. COVID infected people were being taken to jiju-in quarantine center in a bus in September, this bus crashed and 27 people lost their lives in this accident. The saddest thing is that in this entire district only two people died due to COVID, and 27 due to COVID restrictions. Last month 1000 people started protest in jing ju’s apple factory. Started breaking barricades. Police and many Protesters were injured in this. These are just a few incidences, but they point towards a trend. China’s COVID restriction is not letting people go.
China’s Zero Covid Policy
China had declared in 2020 itself that they have achieved victory over covid. With zero covid policy. That’s why where covid cases were increasing very fast in other countries. In China, where the covid virus was born, the cases had almost stopped there. this is the extraordinary achievements by China. assuming they are not lying about the data. But at what cost? People in China have to download a compulsory app. Which is called covid passport. People get three types of signals by entering all their data in it, green means free to travel, yellow means there are chances of covid infection and red means infected. It was necessary to scan such QR code before entering any public place like restaurant, bus, airport. China adopted an approach of mass testing. Every province was given the freedom to decide the speed and frequency of testing. And asked to upload the database on the government website. Testing is going on, it’s a good thing. But the problem occurs when people have to test multiple times every day. Let’s take the example of Beijing. Before entering the subway, you have to do a compulsory test by putting such a long line. This zero covid policy of China was working very well when the virus was new. But then when the virus mutated. And this strategy started failing. Because the immunity of the people has not increased, hard immunity has not come in the people. Talking about the economy, China has suffered a loss of 1 trillion dollars. but what are the differences in this? Because such restrictions were already there in different countries, the difference is that other countries gradually reduced all these restrictions. And removed this year. But for China, the number of that zero covid policy was so important that it has been living under such restrictions for 2 years. And Chinese people can’t even talk freely about them.
China vs Free Speech
China is a surveillance state, China keeps a watch on its citizens. their every move is tracked, China does not have freedom of speech. that means all news coming from China, are first approved by the government, and only then do they reach the people and the internet is quite limited in China. foreign social media websites like Facebook, Youtube, Instagram don’t work in China. in fact, tik tok is a Chinese app but for Chinese citizens. they have a different app called douyin, China does not have free speech, and that is what people are highlighting in the protests. with a blank piece of paper, people can’t criticize the government in China. people want to share a lot, but the person who raises a voice is silenced like this blank paper. for Chinese protestors, this blank paper is a symbol for all the things they wany to say. but what they can’t actually say. in China map protests happened in these places, “give me freedom or give me death” Beijing covid testing booths, sported messages like this. spray painted by the angry protestors. this slogan has a connection to China’s Tiananmen Square incident. now many experts believe, the protests happening in 2022 are reminding authorities of Tiananmen square.
what happened is in 1989, China’s students felt. China needed reforms, including political and economic reforms. to stop these protests to crush these protests. there was martial law in Beijing, what’s this means is, the army took control of the city. to stop the protestors 1000’s of people came on the streets, they began blocking the roads, one person stopping military tanks is quite famous. these protest were violent and 10,000 people lost their lives, the world criticised China a lot. now China is afraid of another incidence like this. and to stop his, it can go to any extent. its can start a war as well.
China’s Reaction
In a situation like this, China’s reaction is quite interesting. slowly, covid restrictions are relaxing. China doesn’t have a zero covid policy anymore, as a result covid cases in China are rising. China’s vaccine was not effective against Omicron, and for the longest time. China did not allow other vaccines in their country. now suddenly because of these protests, everything is opening again. this means Chinese nationals will be able to travel to other countries. and people from other countries will be able to come to China. now, Chinese new year is coming too. in the year 2020, the covid virus majorly spread during Chinese new year travels. now there is a new variant of covid in China. the real fear is, is this the beginning of 2020 again? will China once again, spread covid with a new variant globally? whenever there are internal problems in China, to divert their citizens attention. China creates broder conflicts. there are three usual victims of this policy, Taiwan, countries in the south China sea and India. a few days ago in Arunachal Pradesh, 200 Chinese soldiers crossed the LAC. these soldier’s were pushed back by our Indian soldiers. China did the same in 2020 in Galwan valley. and in the 2022 winter Olympics, they felicitated those soldiers too. to distract the Chinese people, China will continue to keep attacking. that’s why we need to be carefull. because China has already stolen 2 years from our lives. now to handle Chinese protests to distract the Chinese people, China will do stunts like this. we must remember, China hid information on covid. they stopped people from investigating, and China has not been punished for this.
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