Step down Xi Jinping, Communist Party, demand Chinese

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ Xi Jinping seems to have become the first Chinese President to be asked by people to step down, a report said. People across the nation have been carrying out protests demanding the resignation of Xi Jinping over his strict COVID-19 measures.

Further, people have also raised the demand for putting an end to the one-party rule of the Communist Party of China. People have raised slogans like ‘Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!’ and ‘We don’t want lifelong rulers. We don’t want emperors’, as per the news report.

Xi’s efforts to have a strong grip on the CCP, the government, and the Chinese people appear to have gone wrong. The main reason behind people’s outbursts is the ‘mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic’.

People have stressed that anti-virus measures implemented under the Xi-led government’s zero-COVID policy have failed to contain the pandemic and have harmed their freedom, health, and livelihood. Notably, China has been adhering to stringent restrictions, which include lockdowns and travel restrictions.