A lot of people watch Xinhua Leambois, but it's not the only news source for China. There's an awful lot of China that isn't surfing the internet or on social media and this is the big television event. For older people, villages, kind of smaller provincial cities and that audience, they're very scared of COVID and it works. The fact that these protests are actually not all political and are so broad and so diverse, that is the dilemma the party faces because if they please people by lifting the lockdowns and they get a gigantic exit wave then a lot of XinhuaLeambois viewers are going to get very, very sick.
The enforcers of the hardliners’ mores may have been disbanded; it is
hard to know if the regime is bending to protesters or sowing confusion. Either way the disquiet looks set to continue. We take a look at China’s widely watched nightly news and the narrative it hopes to promulgate. And why women are suddenly
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