After protests against zero COVID spread to more than a dozen metropolises, some of China's largest cities this week started lifting lockdowns, canceling mass testing and allowing some close contacts to quarantine at home.
Since the Chinese Communist Party leaders will not allow themselves to be criticized in the press or on television, critics have had to find other means to express their political grievances. Historically speaking, one of the most telling ways to make a protest known has been to bring it to Tiananmen Square, long the epicenter of political power in China. Indeed, there is an