🇨🇳 Video shows retirees' protest over health insurance reforms in Chinese city of Wuhan, not Shanghai
Copyright AFP 2017-2023. All rights reserved.in Chinese-language social media posts that falsely claim it shows a demonstration against reforms to China's vast public health insurance system in the country's second-largest city Shanghai. The video in fact shows a rally against the reforms in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, not Shanghai.on February 19, 2023.
Its Chinese-language caption reads:"After Wuhan and Dalian, a large number of citizens in Shanghai gathered to protest against the China Communist Party's public health insurance policy." The video appears to show a crowd gathered on the street singing"The Internationale" -- a standard of the international communist movement -- and demanding their pensions be returned. A line of police officers can also be seen keeping an eye on the crowd.hundreds of retirees staged protestsProtests are rare in China, where authorities strictly enforce public order laws and opposition is quickly snuffed out.
The outpouring of frustration in Wuhan and Dalian had been sparked by reforms to the country's vast public health insurance system that have reduced the monthly allowances paid to retirees.
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