China’s Top Leaders Panic Over Police’s Delayed Response to Anti-CCP Banners: Insider

They are alarmed by potential signs of disloyalty within the police system after anti-CCP banners were left hanging for hours in Chengdu.
China’s Top Leaders Panic Over Police’s Delayed Response to Anti-CCP Banners: Insider
In this file photo, banners hang from Sitong Bridge in Beijing on Oct. 13, 2022. Dissident Peng Lifa unfurled the banners to protest against China’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy and call for an end to the authoritarian regime. Screenshot of Fangshimin’s Twitter account via The Epoch Times
Olivia Li
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Chinese authorities are grappling with internal alarm following a rare public protest in Southwest China, where three large banners denouncing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were displayed on an overpass in a busy commercial district—and remained in place for nearly three hours before being removed.

According to Chinese dissident Yuan Hongbing, who spoke to The Epoch Times citing an insider, Beijing’s alarm stemmed not from the content of the protest banners, but rather, a potentially crumbling foundation in the CCP’s tightly controlled surveillance state.