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The recent protests against government measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 infections in China cover the headlines of mainstream Western media. Given the rarity of the event, the opportunity to promote anti-China propaganda was obviously not going to be passed up.
The BBC, for example, argued that the protests are actually more against Xi Jinping’s repressive communist government rather than the sanitary measures. What followed was to be expected: a romanticizing of the brave protesters standing up to the “monster” of the Chinese state.
“Across the country, ‘want freedom’ has become a rallying cry for a groundswell of protests mainly led by the younger generation,” CNN said with shameless dramatism.
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However, beyond what the mainstream media seeks to project, these facts dismantle several myths about China and its supposed “repressive” regime with few freedoms.
On this, the self-taught expert in Chinese medicine Arnaud Bertrand said the following:
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1597170690830237696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1597170690830237696%7Ctwgr%5Efba14018ed84c34e984d97a8711c195f448d4fd4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmisionverdad.com%2Flos-mitos-sobre-las-protestas-en-china-y-el-estado-policial
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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