Freedom House revealed that labor protests had more than doubled in China from those documented in June 2022 to the same month in 2023.
For much of 2022, and certainly in late November of that year when protestsnationwide, Chinese citizens expressed outrage and disillusion with the poor handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and in particular the use of city-wide lockdowns to place millions in a state of house arrest and the imprisonment of at least thousands in government-run quarantine camps.
Following the protests in late November, the Communist Party announced an end to widespread lockdowns and quarantine imprisonment,as an “optimization” of the brutal “zero-Covid” policy. Dissent – and government censorship – persisted, however, indicating public dissatisfaction was being fueled by factors beyond the pandemic response.
“These trends coincide with the Guangdong government facing a 4.8 percent drop in revenue compared to 2021,” it concluded.
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