The mass protests against Beijing’s “zero-COVID” policy in China reveals a weaken the communist regime, according to Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk.
“It makes them look weaker than it was in the past,” Corr, who is also an Epoch Times contributor, said in an interview with NTD, sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, on Nov. 29.
Since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, which were much bigger and centralized in Beijing, people have gotten used to very little dissent in China, he said.
Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk and author of “The Concentration of Power,” in New York on Dec. 13, 2021. (Bao Qiu/The Epoch Times)
“There have been frequently scattered protests in China on more local issues, like land issues, or banks that don’t pay their depositors,” Corrs said….