Peng Lifa, identified as a Chinese physicist and dissident responsible for hanging banners against communism in Beijing last week, has reportedly inspired a wave of copycat protest messages in at least eight Chinese citizens, Australia’s news.com.au reported Wednesday.
The man now widely believed to be Peng Lifa reportedly disguised himself as a construction worker to get atop Beijing’s Sitong Bridge and hang up two banners — one reading, “No PCR tests, but food; no lockdowns, but freedom; no lies, but respect; no Cultural Revolution, but reform; no dictator, but vote; no [to being] slaves, but we the people” and another reading “students strike — workers strike — people strike — dictator traitor Xi Jinping.”
The reference to “slaves” appears to be intentionally similar to the first line of the Chinese national anthem, the “March of the Volunteers”: “Stand up! Those who refuse to be slaves!” Chinese authorities have censored lines from the country’s national anthem online in the past when citizens have weaponized it to protest the seven-decade-old communist regime.
Peng also reportedly set a small fire on the bridge so passersby would be more likely to look at the banners and shouted anti-Xi slogans through a megaphone before police arrived on the scene, disappeared him from sight, and took down the banners, dispersing the crowds below.
The act of brazen defiance, in the heart of the Chinese elite’s seat of power, was particularly impactful as it occurred shortly before the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party Congress, which takes place every five years and determines the leadership and priorities of the Party.
Xi is seeking a third term at the helm of the country, possessing the titles of “president,” commander-in-chief of the armed forces, chairman of the Communist Party, and nine others. No evidence indicates that Party leadership will challenge Xi. On Sunday, Xi will name the new leaders in the Politburo and other key positions, mostly replacing officials who have reached retirement age or are term-limited.
Xi made his debut at this year’s Congress with a two-hour speech on Sunday attempting to assure the world that the economic devastation brought about by his insistence on city-wide lockdowns to fight the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was limited and China was still the defining world power. Substantially undermining his claims, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics abruptly, and inexplicably, refused to publish its GDP report immediately before the Congress began.
Peng’s banner was heavily censored on China’s government-controlled social media outlet Weibo and reports of several other individuals being arrested for sharing the message have surfaced. Nonetheless, news.com.au, citing the dissident site VoiceofCN, reported that “Peng’s message has since popped up in at least eight Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.” Many instances of the banner’s message appearing in public have occurred in public bathrooms, one of the few kinds of places the Communist Party has not flooded with surveillance equipment.
Chinese internet users shared a variety of photos from the cities listed on Weibo showing messages against Xi and communism generally in bathrooms, prompting another wave of censorship online and reports that the Party is sending police officers into bathrooms in an attempt to subdue the silent protests.
……The Beijing display was the latest in a series of mounting protests and evidence of civil unrest nationwide. In Shanghai, the nation’s largest and wealthiest city, residents protested – some engaging in violence with public workers – during the weeks of lockdowns in April that threatened to starve out residents, as many protested that the city did not offer sufficient food and medical supplies. In June, central Henan province was the site of a giant protest in response to banks there not allowing residents to withdraw money, a symptom of a greater housing crisis caused by contractors failing to build promised new homes as the pandemic rolled on.
Every ChiCom regime has terrorized the population by imprisoning dissidents and a rising body count.
Right now, the CCP is “cracking down on covid” by starving citizens, imprisoning them in their own homes, and beating family pets to death.
The Chinese people are sick of being under the thumb of depraved bloody dictators. The Party is willing to crush any uprising and they don’t care how many they have to shoot, run over with tanks, or drag off to jail to be tortured and put through hard labor.
If China is ever going to be a free country, the citizens will have to rise up by the millions to overthrow the brutal commie State in Beijing.