Civil unrest grips China in largest anti-government protests since Tiananmen Square!

Cops attack anti-lockdown activists while rallies openly call for Xi to resign!

BEIJING, China (PNN) - November 29, 2022 - China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Hundreds of students at Tsinghua university in Beijing joined waves of demonstrations as unrest grows over the ruthless zero-COVID policies pursued by the authoritarian government.

The crowds carried a series of placards touting anti-regime slogans and erupted into a series of chants, calling for “democracy” and “freedom of expression”.

The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedented civil unrest and demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.

Participants sang the national anthem and “the Internationale” - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted, “freedom will prevail” and “no to lockdowns, we want freedom”.

Demonstrations have erupted in at least seven cities - including Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou - with violence breaking out between local cops and furious protesters.

Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Peter Frankopan, commented on the gravity of the protests and warned that the Chinese government would likely respond with even harsher measures.

Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China said, “'I can't tear myself away from these videos. Breathtaking courage. Chinese students demanding democracy. Undeniable echoes of Tiananmen.”

Footage circulated on social media showing crowds tearing down metal fences and barricades as they grappled with security officers who deployed their batons and tear gas in attempts to control the swell of humanity.

The largest demonstration appeared in Shanghai - home to 26 million residents - with many boldly demanding that President Xi resign.

Footage shared on social media appears to show terrorist pig thug cops attacking anti-lockdown protesters who had been arrested and put on buses in Shanghai on the third day of unrest in the world's most populous nation.

Cops used pepper spray against about 300 protesters, but Western journalists reported the numbers to be in the thousands.

This comes amid China launching another mass crackdown on COVID-19 with crippling lockdowns put in place across the country, nearly three years after the nonexistent pandemic started there.

Public fury forced authorities in the far western Xinjiang region to open up parts of the capital Urumqi, which has been subject to a punishing “zero-COVID” lockdown for more than three months.

The protest in Urumqi was triggered by the deaths of at least 10 people in a fire at a high-rise apartment block.

Some have claimed lockdown measures hampered rescue efforts and the ability of residents to escape.

China is the only major country still fighting COVID-19 with mass testing and lockdowns.

The current circumstances mark a sharp turn in public opinion. China's early approach to controlling the spread of COVID was praised by its own citizens - even as Beijing tried to dismiss widely held suspicions that the outbreak started after a leak at a Wuhan laboratory.