Editorial published on December 01, 2022
The spark started at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, which manufactures Iphones, on 22 November. Hundreds of workers demonstrated en masse to denounce the non-payment of bonuses and more than drastic health conditions. This was all it took for the protest movement to spread like wildfire in many cities across the country. The cause is the “zero covid” policy, which has put China under economic and social pressure for too long and which, due to the low efficiency of the Chinese vaccine, does not prevent the epidemic.
An unprecedented and unexpected fact: Xi Jinping, just re-elected as head of the Chinese Communist Party, is directly targeted by the demonstrators with the cry of “Down with Xi Jinping!” The repression of this discontent was obviously not made to wait, even if some measures of lightening of the lockdown have just been evoked by the cornered authorities.
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Stellina (Taïwan)
"Liberté"
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Hamzeh Hajjaj (Jordanie / Jordan)
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - BRandan (Afrique du Sud / South Africa), Business Day
"Chine politique zéro Covid"
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Vadot (Belgique / Belgium), L’Echo
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Emad Hajjaj (Jordanie / Jordan), Alaraby Aljadeed
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Dilem (Algérie / Algeria)
"Demonstrations against "zero covid"" - "The Chinese regime fears contagion" - "We have raised the alert level!"
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Olivier Ploux (France)
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Wilcox (Australie / Australia), Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
"Votre excellence, j'ai bien peur que nous n'ayons pu arrêter la propagation du Covid-19" - "J'imagine que les pandémies sont plus difficiles à écraser que la dissidence publique, hein."
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Emanuele Del Rosso (Italie / Italy)
"Politique zéro-Covid de la Chine"
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Unprecedented wave of revolt in China - Chappatte (Suisse / Switzerland), Le Temps
"Your iPhone order is being processed"