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Nov 24, 2022
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Chinese Protestors Clash With Police, Demonstrate Against Zero-COVID Policies: Xi Jinping, Step Down! Liberty Or Death!

#9965 | 05:09
Source: Online Platforms - "Various online sources"

This clip is a compilation of videos of Chinese protestors demonstrating against "Zero-COVID" policies in the major Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou. The videos show protestors violently clashing with police forces, and mass demonstrations in which people chanted "Communist Party, step down!", "Xi Jinping, step down!", "Liberty or death!", and "Free speech, free press!" The videos in this clip were posted to various Twitter accounts between November 24 and November 28, 2022.

Protestor: "What are you doing?"

Chinese Authority: "Leave right away!

Protestor: "What are you doing? Did I move my hands at all? What are you going to do?"

[...]

Protestor: "Communist Party..."

Crowd: "...Step down!"

Protestor: "Xi Jinping..."

Crowd: "...Step down!"

[...]

Protestor: "Communist Party..."

Crowd: "...Step down!"

Protestor: "Xi Jinping..."

Crowd: "...Step down!"

[...]

Protestor: "End the lockdown in Urumqi!"

Crowd: "End the lockdown in Urumqi!"

Protestor: "End the lockdown in Xinjiang!"

Crowd: "End the lockdown in Xinjiang!"

Protestor: "End the lockdown in all of China!"

Crowd: "End the lockdown in all of China!"

[...]

Protestor: "No health QR codes!"

Crowd: "No health QR codes!"

[...]

Protestors: "Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go! Let him go!"

[...]

Protestor: "We want freedom!"

Crowd: "We want freedom!"

Protestor: "No nucleic acid tests, we want freedom!"

[...]

Protestor: "Liberty or death!"

Crowd: "Liberty or death!"

[...]

Protestor: "Liberty or death!"

Crowd: "Liberty or death!"

[...]

Protestor: "China belongs to the people!"

Crowd: "China belongs to the people!"

[...]

Protestor: "Free speech, free press!"

Crowd: "Free speech, free press!"

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Chinese Authority: "Get out of here!"

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Protestor: "Remember the quarantine hotel that collapsed! Remember the pregnant woman who had a miscarriage in front of the hospital in Xi'an! Remember the nurse in Shanghai who died after being refused medical treatment by her own hospital! Remember the three-year-old child in Lanzhou!"

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"So much to remember! I hope that in the days to come, we will refuse to accept the 'correct' collective memory shaped by the government. Let's not be the so-called 'people' — let's be ourselves!"

[...]

Protestor: "We want freedom!"

Crowd: "We want freedom!"

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