Excitement, defiance for young Chinese in COVID ‘tipping point’ protests

While united against China’s stifling “zero-COVID” measures, all six also spoke of a yearning for broader political freedoms, 33 years after students occupied China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

“We don’t want masks, we want freedoms,” Yang chanted, using her phone to share pictures, videos and posts over Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram — apps not accessible on the mainland without a virtual private network, that she’d installed.“Down with the Chinese Communist Party,” people chanted, some casting off their masks. “Down with Xi Jinping!”

China has relied mainly on domestically produced vaccines, which some studies have suggested are not as effective as some foreign ones, meaning lifting COVID measures could come with big risks, some experts say.Considering herself part of a small “liberal bubble” in Shanghai — China’s most cosmopolitan city — Yang did not imagine so many people sharing her frustrations in a country that has grown increasingly authoritarian in the decade since Xi assumed power.

“I’m very proud that I can stand up with the best young people in China and speak out for everyone,” said Cheng. In one post, she wrote: “In an irrational reality, being rational and using logical words are far, far from adequate.”With police in various cities now checking people’s phones for apps like Telegram, however, and summoning some people for interviews, Yang said she would lie low for now, using a clean “burner” phone to go out with.Despite the risks, Dai’an, who identifies herself as a feminist and lives in the southwestern city of Chengdu, says she is driven by a “very simple sense of justice”.

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