ANALYSIS: This generation of young people is going to be a problem for Xi Jinping
abc.net.au/news/what-football-and-covid-protests-tell-us-about-china-youth/101777326As a Chinese woman living in Australia, the past few weeks have been a depressing and worrying time as I have watched what has unfolded at home.
Now, Beijing has announced an easing of its most severe COVID-19 policies, allowing people to travel freely inside the country again and isolate at home if they have mild or no symptoms. But just as I was texting my high-school classmates who I haven't seen in years, an old memory struck me, taking me back to the first and only protest I attended in China 10 years ago.It was a Friday night and I was at boarding school in a city in southern China.
Yet a week before the game, as we gathered in our classrooms quietly doing our homework, our head teacher announced that all students had to stay in school on the weekend of the Asia Cup final. I also joined them, though I wasn't a football fan. For me, it was a chance to go home after a long week at school and watch K-drama.
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