Starving Chinese Citizens Kneel Down to Beg Officials

3/12/2020
Updated:
7/23/2020

Background: Many Chinese people, especially employees in small businesses and self-employees, have had no income amid the coronavirus crisis. In this video, a group of people kneel down in front of a local government building to plead for help.

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Woman in the background: Come take a look. You will see how Chinese people are suffering, as a result of the (corrupt) Chinese officials. They don’t even have food to eat.

Woman: We are demanding justice.

Woman in the background: The Chinese officials are bullying Chinese people to such an extent. They don’t even have food to eat and cannot survive.

Woman in the group: We need to eat!

Woman in the background: Everyone, come check this out. Those officials are bullying Chinese people to such an extent.

Group: We need to eat! We need to survive!

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Many Chinese netizens expressed their disapproval when they saw people kneeling down in this video. One of them said, “It’s wise to act together, but such behavior is not effective. We should choose a better location to protest. If they cannot help us, we must force them to step down.”