Never, since the Tiananmen Square movement in 1989, have so many Chinese challenged the communist regime so directly, some even daring to call for the resignation of President Xi Jinping. In dozens of cities and universities, exasperated citizens and students gathered this weekend at the end of November to shout their rejection of the “zero Covid” policy applied blindly and brutally by the Chinese authorities since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic nearly three years ago. A cry of revolt that turned into a political demand against an authoritarian power deaf to the suffering of a population whose daily life has become hell, tells us our correspondent in Beijing. A month after being triumphantly reappointed for a third term as head of the country, Xi Jinping faces his most serious political challenge since taking power in late 2012.
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"Zero Covid" : the failure of China – Le dossier de L’Express
