Angry protests call for China’s Xi to step down

First word CHINA is so big and its people so many that ordinary observers need to use a different scale in measuring what is happening in China today. Filipinos should especially guard against using the same scale that they used in turning the protests at EDSA in February 1986 into an iconic show of people power. For the moment, the angry protests in China are not aiming yet at regime change. They seek rather to overthrow the unpopular zero-Covid policy of President Xi Jinping. The protests are not happening in one city, let alone a single avenue. The protests are…