Rare protests in China

The Daily Mail reports:

Protesters calling for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have clashed with police in violent scenes – as officers also assaulted a BBC journalist covering the demonstrations.

China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre with protests erupting in at least seven cities over the country’s strict Covid rules – which many believe contributed to the deaths of ten people after a fire broke out in the city of Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang region.

The largest of the demonstrations has taken place in Shanghai – home to 26 million residents – with many also boldly demanding that President Xi resign.

China has a terrible problem.

Their Covid lockdowns are failing and generating huge hostility.

However their vaccine has been pretty rubbish compared to western ones, and if Covid spreads rapidily, their health system will collapse.

My pick is that they will persist with the lockdowns, but there will be more and more protests up until the point when they start mass killing of protesters.