A rare public protest on the eve of the Chinese Communist Party Congress calling for Chinese President Xi Jinping to step down tapped into the government’s deepest fears of dissent and public opposition. The jab at Xi and his harsh zero-COVID policies, displayed on two banners hung on the Sitong traffic overpass in Beijing, resonated with many Chinese and was swiftly scrubbed from the country’s internet. Xi’s keynote speech to the congress set a record for the number of mentions of “security.”
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