ASPI explains: The protests rocking China

Summary

Daria Impiombato and Vicky Xiuzhong Xu writing in the Strategist make the following points:

• Activists used AirDrop (until Apple stopped its Chinese organisational use) to share information without using the internet.
• Protests occurred at Tsinghua University (China’s Harvard) the breeding ground for CCP leaders and Xi Jinping’s alma
• ater.
• Police would have expected the protests and been prepared.
• Covid restrictions and anger over the death of locked down people in a building fire a catalyst.
• The scale of the protests totally unexpected.

References

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References from the Web:

• DEC 2022 Xi’s Shattered Illusion of Control-Foreign Affairs
• DEC 2022 What You Need to Know About China’s Protests-FP

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