China's rulers appear to have drastically underestimated growing discontent at Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy.
A BBC team filmed confrontations between police and demonstrators in Shanghai at the site of a protestOver the years, sudden, local explosions of defiance have been triggered by a range of issues - from toxic pollution to illegal land grabs, or the mistreatment of a community member at the hands of the police.
This has come in the form of residents smashing down barriers designed to enforce social distancing, and nowIn a way, it is hard to explain just how shocking it is to hear a crowd in Shanghai calling for China's leader Xi Jinping to resign. It is extremely dangerous here to publicly criticise the Communist Party's general secretary. You risk being put in prison.
And yet there they were on the Shanghai street which carries the name of the Xinjiang city where a fire had killed 10 residents, and zero-Covid restrictions were blamed for hampering the rescue effort.Again and again: "Xi Jinping! Step down! Xi Jinping! Step down!"For a political organisation with no greater priority than remaining in power, this is as big a challenge as they come.
The government appears to have drastically underestimated growing discontent towards the zero-Covid approach - a policy inextricably linked to Mr Xi, who recently pledged there would be no swerving from the policy.
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