“Xi Jinping, step down! CCP, step down!” “Give me liberty or give me death!”
This is the slogan of over 100 Chinese students who gathered in front of Town Hall, Sydney, to protest against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s extreme “Zero-COVID” policy and dictatorial rule on the evening of Nov. 28.
Triggered by the deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi, massive protests have broken across China and quickly spread overseas, with many Chinese from different backgrounds saying that this was a scene not seen since the student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989.
Chinese students in Sydney held candlelight tributes to the victims of the Urumqi fire incident, in which first responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout the residential compound….