[From the Scene] ‘Zero-COVID’ is over. Why are Chinese still protesting?
Social affairsJan 25, 2023
Dilemma for Xi? The pandemic likely served as a trigger for the Chinese public to express their already existing woes with intensifying repression, according to Moon Heung-ho, head of the Institute of Chinese Studies at Hanyang University in Seoul. “Before this point, public discontent rarely translated into tangible expressions like protests due to the state’s harsh crackdown,” he said in a ph...