Chinese People are Fighting Back

In the past couple of days, videos and articles about Chinese people fighting back against oppression have popped up on social media.

In one video, villagers gather en masse and throw rocks at police. The story is, supposedly, the police were coming to enforce the harsh lockdowns in their town, just like in Shanghai, and the people were not having it. (Sometimes these videos are fake, or totally out of context by the way, so I won't post it here.) I would take it with a grain of salt, but a similar story is unfolding elsewhere with some better documentation.

Other videos show workers busting out of their factory/prison (where they make MacBooks). The Tesla factory in China had similar conditions, by the way. Workers there are putting in 12 hours a day 6 days a week on behalf of USA corporations, which is hard to even imagine doing indefinitely when you could go home or have a vacation once in a while, but in the circumstance where you are living in the factory, how is it any different than a prison camp?

It's good that the people finally stood up for themselves. That, apparently, is the answer of how far they could be pushed: Weeks of imprisonment.