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Protests in China Are a Rebellion Against the Communist Regime’s Suppression: Rights Activist

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Protests in China Are a Rebellion Against the Communist Regime’s Suppression: Rights Activist
A protester shouts during a protest for the victims of a deadly fire as well as a protest against China's harsh COVID-19 restrictions in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
Jan Jekielek
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British human rights activist Benedict Rogers said the wave of protests against Beijing’s “zero-COVID” policy that spread to at least 10 cities in China over the weekend is a manifestation of rebellion against the Chinese regime’s repression.

“They are, I think, a boiling over of not just frustration at the very draconian COVID lockdowns, but actually rebellion against the very severe repression, the surveillance state that has developed under Xi Jinping over the last decade,” Rogers said in an interview with Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program that will premiere on Dec. 3, 2022. He recently authored “The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny.”
Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”
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