China's Inhumane Covid Lockdowns Became A Wake-up Call For Some Chinese

The Chinese government has chosen to enforce its 'Zero Covid' policy with a degree of cruelty and zealousness the Chinese people haven't experienced since the Cultural Revolution. By The Federalist Reportedly responding to more infectious Covid-19 variants, the Chinese government has recently put 46 cities and 343 million residents under strict lockdowns. The ruthlessly enforced lockdown policies , empty shelves in grocery stores, and widespread food shortages have become a wake-up call for many. After the Chinese Communist Party brutally cracked down on the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989, it offered the Chinese people an unwritten grand bargain:…