Key Points
- The largest protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 recently broke out in China, with demonstrators expressing their anger toward the “zero-COVID” policy and calling for General Secretary Xi Jinping to step down.
- The CCP increased its show of force against the demonstrations and flooded the streets with police and paramilitary troops in jeeps, vans, and armored cars.
- The Chinese Communist Party has been preparing for challenges to its rule for decades and installed the necessary machinery to crush large-scale demonstrations.
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