Gotta say - The West (especially the Anglo-Saxon portion in particular) - are a malignant cancer for the rest of the world.
However, what's even more painful and heartbreaking to see is how many overseas Chinese, Chinese citizens who live overseas and those Hongkies and Wanwanese out there that have long sold their dignity and principle in order to be fed a bone by the very same people who enslaved and kneeled them not even a century ago, and going as far as becoming 汉奸s that would betray their own people and their own civilization state.
Had the Qing woke up and get up earlier and firmer when the Western colonial powers came knocking on their door in the 19th century, China wouldn't have to deal with the Century of Humiliation at all. The effects and impacts of the Century of Humiliation is still vividly felt across the Chinese diasphora to this day.
So, fvck the Qings.
Besides, we still have loads and bunch of people from the Global South who would rather lick the boots of their former colonial masters, rather than having a slick of dignity and preseverence to stand up on their own ground. Or perhaps, they couldn't do so, because they have become too weak in the face of rentless neo-colonialism attacks and conquer.
It does feel hard to be optimistic. But is there really no way that this can be turned around completely?
Let the people whine dude. Don't you see that most of the protesters are mostly young and idealistic, not to mention a bunch of know-it-alls. Additionally, these folks have all western friends, have accessed to western social media and the narrative they see is that while Covid-19 is indeed a serious virus, it doesn't warrant a China style dynamic policy anymore. In other words, to these people, WHY CHINA CAN'T BE LIKE THE WEST. While expecting the government to protect them from the scourge of Covid-19.
As I have said, since the CPC is the only party holding power they will receive the wrath and fury of her people rightly or wrongly. After all, the party takes the credit (rightfully, and deservedly) for all the success China has achieved thus far.
This Covid-19 policy and the problem it faces is sort of similar how Pres. Xi Jinping and prior administration was trying to warn and wake up the tech businesses in China to further develop their semiconductor industry to no avail. It was only when Pres. Trump came bursting into the scene that those idiots finally saw the wisdom and foresight of the party. Same s..t with Bitcoin/crypto currency; when the government decided to ban crypto mining and crypto currency altogether, the usual lemmings (selfish idiots) howled and balked at their government. Some left China and set up shops in the U.S. just to see their magic wealth, disappear like magic. Which again delighted the ingrates being saved from their worst tendencies.
This time around, the subject matter and issues is vastly more complicated and there are no easy answers to come by. Open up and the flood of infections rise, along with the number of deaths. Who then the people blame? The CPC. The CPC continues the strained dynamic covid policy, eruptions of fed up people (minority of people) will metastasized and become a movement to be used for many unrelated shit that for obvious political issues will be take advantaged by China's nemesis which is to be expected.
Let the people protests but must draw the line period if and when some monkeys call for a regime change. Such nonsense are never tolerated anywhere on the planet, democracy or not.