Sick of the Lockdowns in China

 

Is the Tide Receding for the CCP?

Calling the medical tyranny in China “lockdowns” is making a mockery of the term.

Lockdowns are what occurred in the United States and a lot of other nations. Canada and Britain saw tough measures, while Australia and New Zealand tossed their liberal credentials aside and let the goons loose on anti-lockdown protests. On some level most countries’ governments overstepped their bounds by giant leaps. Police harassed elderly couples with curfew citations out walking their dog.  Most countries imposed mandates for masks and vaccines. Largely because of what the truckers did in Canada, governments backed off after that.

The truckers didn’t go far enough in their rebellion, but they did make their point. When the law finally did break up the demonstrations, Justin Trudeau paid an awful price. He’s the most hated man in the country by regular citizens. All because of vaccine mandates for cross border truckers, Ottawa’s overreach caused other mandates to fizzle. A lot of vaccine mandates in the US were a non starter as well. Especially now that the jab has cost more lives to Covid than natural immunity alone, leaders look silly in their insistence.

China lockdowns are otherworldly. When you realize that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes the position that the country is theirs and everyone else just occupies space, their thuggish behavior makes sense. Not only did the virus begin there, in a Wuhan lab, but the party has insisted on an inhuman policy of Zero Covid. That means hazmat suited teams test everyone where they live. If positive, the individual can’t leave his/her apartment. Some have been welded inside their room, many are beaten for protesting the demand. Business owners have had enough too. I saw a great video of a restaurant owner with a hammer, destroying the barricade around his shop and shouting about the injustice of it.

Some of the blue states like California and New York had draconian lockdowns but nothing like a communist state. I complained loudly about the mask requirements here. I sent emails to my governor and my city council member, who voted on masks for Tulsa. People in the US didn’t complain enough in my opinion. They let fear of a pandemic take out their rights as citizens to live, work and worship. And that’s in Oklahoma, where the response was mild relative to much of the country. I won’t go down another trail and rehash 2020. But there has been no retribution for government overreach during those dark days.

 There needs to be a full accounting, or it WILL happen again.  

I know the Chinese are used to just keeping their heads down and avoiding certain activities. But they’ve been through a crazy number of restrictions from an oppressive government that’s scared of its population. It pushes them hard because if the population ever knew their power, the communist party would cease to exist. Every town, city or rural area would lock up the local official in an apartment and weld the door shut. But no one can convince a population to cast off restraint and fight for their future, for their children’s future. It must come from exhausted, angry people who’ve decided they’d rather die or go to prison than live under this regime another day.

I do hope the people of China are there.

But it’s also a great time from the regime’s point of view to start a war. They’ve been looking for a reason to attack Taiwan and subdue those “rebels”. It’s a wealthy country that got rid of their dictatorship a while ago. Beijing has always claimed it as a province. But Beijing also claims a massive chunk of the South China Sea that’s very far off the coast of China. In all international relations though, it depends on how far your influence extends and not what proclamations you make. They can claim it, but can they control it?

I’m optimistic on the future of China and the Chinese people, but I won’t put a date on the collapse of the CCP. They’ve handled these situations before, including the Hong Kong protests just a few years ago. Is Hong Kong more or less free of Beijing’s grip? They are less free today and no one disputes this.

But there is another big reason I’d love to see a little short term chaos among the communist leadership, American businesses and their unscrupulous practices. Apple just made a deal with the CCP to disable the Airdrop feature on the iPhones of Chinese citizens. It’s the way regular citizens share data, phone to phone, bypassing the heavily censored towers. I know at this point, tech companies working with the CCP to throttle dissent is as common as smog over the cities. But it’s despicable; here as well as there. A collapsing system would expose much of the dirty secrets of Americas top companies and their business practice.

The Chinese government covers up for a lot of mischief like a high tide. But when the tide goes out, we’ll see who’s been swimming naked.