Report: China Locked Away Wuhan Residents at Gunpoint to Protect Xi Jinping
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping finally visited Wuhan, epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday. Xi’s visit was meant to signal the virus is under control and Wuhan can get back to work, but residents of the city used social media to illuminate what Radio Free Asia (RFA) called the “massive security and propaganda operation surrounding Xi’s visit.”
Much of that operation reportedly involved armed security forces clad in hazmat suits making sure the unhappy people of Wuhan behaved themselves during Xi’s visit:
Some said the police were likely there to stop people heckling the president, as they did last week during a visit by vice premier Sun Chunlan.
“When #SunChunlan visited last time, #Wuhan citizens hailed “fake”,” wrote Twitter user @jerome_coo. “When #XiJinping visited this time, #CCP arranged #police to prevent such an incident.”
Others accused Xi of going to Wuhan when the greatest danger to his own health had passed, and “picking peaches,” a phrase suggesting he was taking the credit for others’ work.
Wuhan resident Liu Guoqiang said Xi had visited Leishenshan Hospital, before moving onto the Donghuyuan residential compound.
“General Secretary Xi Jinping flew into Wuhan to make an inspection today,” Liu said. “He went to Leishenshan and a few other places to visit frontline medical staff, grassroots officials and People’s Liberation Army soldiers and volunteers.”
“It was all a big show to let us know that the head of state had arrived.”
A resident surnamed Sun said local people were barred from leaving their homes during Xi’s visit.
“They wouldn’t let us go out, and there were sentry posts every few meters,” Sun said. “Local residents had to shut their windows, and there were armed police guarding each home wherever he went.”
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