Tension Grows Between the CCP and the Chinese People

A policeman (C) wearing protective clothing reacts in an area where barriers are being placed to close off streets around a locked-down neighborhood in Shanghai, China, on March 15, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

During the era of China’s economic reform and opening up to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese people accepted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule. The principal reason was that the Chinese leadership secured its legitimacy through economic growth.