how do you expect the chinese communist party to respond to this? that s an interesting question. we ve seen the authorities in urumqi, where the mourning and anti lockdown protests broke out last week. and anti lockdown protests broke out last week, issue an apology, some kind of self criticism perhaps some kind of self criticism perhaps could be coming in those particular places, where officials could be held responsible, but it s always very difficult to predict chinese politics, but my money would be on a clampdown rather than further concessions. the situation is probably going to get uglier before it gets better. just want to take you to this scene
from april this year, so i think it is very much about the scale and the relatively simultaneous, if notjoined up nature of some of these protests across very different geographies in china, including the xinjiang region. it is an interesting question. we have seen the authorities in urumqi, where the morning in urumqi, where the mourning and anti lockdown protests broke out last week. we have seen them issue an apology, some kind of self criticism perhaps could be coming in those particular places, where officials could be held responsible, but it is always very difficult to predict chinese politics, but my money would be on a clampdown rather than further concessions.
about the scale and the relatively simultaneous, if notjoined up nature of some of these protests across very different geographies in china, including the xinjiang region. how do you expect the chinese communist party to respond to this? that s an interesting question. we ve seen the authorities in urumqi, where the mourning and anti lockdown protests broke out last week, issue an apology. some kind of self criticism perhaps could be coming in those particular places, where officials could be held responsible, but it s always very difficult to predict chinese politics, but my money would be on a clampdown rather than probably further concessions. the situation s probably going to get uglier before it gets better.