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How Chinese media have – and haven’t – covered
widespread protests against zero-Covid
Chinese media have largely ignored widespread protests across the country, with
prominent state newspaper front pages instead choosing to focus on Taiwan’s
local elections, a Chinese-built solar plant in Qatar and the rising number of
Chinese women choosing to get tanned in beauty salons.
Protests flared across Chinese cities over the weekend, with calls for political
freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns.
Some demonstrators have even demanded the resignation of China’s president, Xi
Jinping, in a wave of civil disobedience that has been unprecedented in mainland
China over the past decade.
However, none of that was evident on the front pages of some of the country’s
most prominent newspapers, or on broadcast channels on Monday. After a night of
unrest, CCTV spent most of the morning covering the announcement of the planned
launch of the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft to China’s space station on Tuesday. The
English language Global Times’ main headline focused on the weekend’s local
elections in Taiwan, while Shanghai media reported on the latest industrial
revenue figures.
Promises to fine-tune the zero-Covid strategy to limit the disruption caused by
lockdowns featured in a number of media outlets on Monday, in what some analysts
interpreted as a subtle nod to the protests. Multiple outlets, including
Communist party mouthpiece the People’s Daily, ran editorials urging “unswerving
adherence” to the zero-Covid policies, which they said was the only correct
path.
A front page story on the Global Times warned of “an extremely challenging
winter” as the country “fine tunes” its Covid measures.
Acknowledging some problems in China’s response, the report urged readers to
think beyond the two “polarized yet erroneous tendencies” to infection control:
“either a complete lockdown or a ‘lying flat’, meaning no pandemic precautions
at all.”
The outlook, though, remains gloomy, as the paper reports that, “compared with
the past two years, China is facing a much tougher battle against the virus”.
The authors of the article quote an unnamed expert who warns that authorities
may have to take “excessive measures”.
“China has pulled out all the stops to put the people and their lives above
everything else, managing to keep the death rates and the number of serious
cases low,” the opinion article reads.
“Without those resolute measures, the consequence could be disastrous for a
country with 1.4 billion people, including 267 million aged 60 or above and more
than 250 million children.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/28/how-chinese-media-have-and-havent-covered-widespread-protests-against-zero-covid