Global protests, local ramifications: Why protests in China, Iran and India resonate here
LA TimesLijian Jie yells in protest during a candlelight vigil for victims who suffer under China’s stringent COVID-19 lockdowns on the campus of USC on Nov. 29. Los Angeles likes to refer to itself as a global city in matters of culture and commerce, but we pay less attention to the city’s role as a stage for global protest. The protests, which experts called the largest Chinese demonstrations since Tiananmen Square in 1989, were sparked by China’s harsh zero-COVID policies, which many blamed for the deaths of 10 people in an apartment building fire in Urumqi. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor of modern Chinese history at UC Irvine, said there’s a feedback loop between U.S. attention and international protest. “Attention can really matter in terms of influencing elite behavior, but it’s also important to activists and people suffering to feel that they’re not forgotten,” Wasserstrom said.
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