Xi in a quandary as lockdown protests hit China

On Monday morning there were signs that local authorities were giving in to popular pressure. Two residents in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began three years ago, told the Financial Times that lockdowns on residential compounds began to lift at midnight.

Many are therefore sceptical that Xi, who has established himself as China’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong and sidelined his already weak rivals at last month’s 20th party congress, will give up one of his signature policy “accomplishments” without a fight. for every report of residents being liberated from a locked-down compound over the weekend, it seemed there was another of police responding violentlyChina's President Xi Jinping. When he was challenged by millions of protesters demanding democracy in Hong Kong in 2019, he responded with an uncompromising national security law that led to the arrests of dozens of activists and ultimately crushed the movement.

Economic hardship has fuelled the outrage. “People have been locked in their homes for so long, can’t open their businesses and are in debt,” said Lance Gore, a China expert at the National University of Singapore. “No matter what happens next, this is a giant rebuke to his policy of zero-Covid. To get to the point where you’ve got street demonstrations and campus speeches, that’s unheard of.”

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