“The protests against health restrictions in China risk, paradoxically, to strengthen Xi Jinping”

Professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, Associate Researcher at Iris, Emmanuel Lincot is a sinologist.

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- For several weeks, demonstrations have been increasing in China against the restrictions imposed by the government to fight against Covid-19.

Unheard of since 1989. Do these social movements reflect a real general fed up of the population in the face of Beijing's zero Covid policy or is it an epiphenomenon?

Emmanuel Lincot.

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We still lack hindsight to understand the depth of this movement, but there is an obvious fed up of the population.

Sociologically and geographically, it is a very diffuse movement, sporadic in several large cities and affecting different layers of Chinese society.

In Beijing and Shanghai, it is the upper middle class who are mobilizing, in particular students from…

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