transparency into what ordinary folks think. obviously the outbreak of protests was startling to everyone especially leadership. they probably thought they had it in the bag after the big party congress in october. xi jinping got his norm busting third term, and many of his official rivals would have been co-opted, purged, detained, or just intimidated. but the people in the streets made their voices known and what was unusual, very rare about it is not only did some of them call for xi jinping himself and the communist party to be toppled, but these were cross-provincial outbreaks of protests. that makes it highly unusual and very worrisome to the regime. some of it was sparked by the world cup, right? i think the chinese saw the rest of the world at the world cup and were startled.
transparency into what ordinary folks think. obviously the outbreak of protests was startling to everyone especially leadership. they probably thought they had it in the bag after the big party congress in october. xi jing bng got his norm busting third term, and many of his official rivals would have been co-opted, purged, detained, or just intimidated. but the people in the streets made their voices known and what was unusual, very rare about it is not only did some of them call for xi jinping himself and the communist party to be toppled, but these were cros provincial outbreaks of protests. that makes it highly unusual and very worrisome to the regime. some of it was sparked by the world cup, right? i think the chinese saw the rest of the world at the world cup