It was just a flimsy banner hung from a highway bridge, and quickly taken down on the eve of the Communist Party Congress in early October.
“We don't want confinement, we want freedom.
No dictator, but elections!”
dared to say the ideograms hanging from the concrete of the third ring road in Beijing.
A rare expression of defiance from an isolated maniac, unable to stop Xi Jinping's great political leap forward towards a new decade of imperious reign.
Just a month after his triumph under the Stalinist golds of the Great Hall of the People, facing the caciques in dark suits standing at attention, the "red prince" is caught up in the reality of the street.
The ephemeral slogan of the Sitong Bridge was taken up in chorus by hundreds of angry Chinese, in flesh and blood, in the four corners of the country, exasperated by its draconian health strategy, erected into dogma.
“It is the first time since 1949 that a political movement has brought together so many voices in society to…
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