Team Biden needs to publicly defend democracy against brittle dictators in Iran and China
COMMENTARY
By Daniel N. Hoffman - - Thursday, December 22, 2022
OPINION:
Sparked by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in September, a wave of popular protest, strikes and civil unrest against Iran’s dictatorship has spread throughout the country that shows no signs of slowing down. Students, middle and working-class city dwellers and rural communities are courageously asserting their right to freedom of speech and assembly.
In China, brave demonstrators staged mass protests against China’s unrelenting COVID-19 lockdowns in November after an apartment fire killed ten people in the provincial city of Urumqi. Beijing’s rigid and widely disliked “zero-COVID” policy reportedly impeded firefighters from reaching the victims in time.
Protests, which began against Iran’s brutal enforcement of its law requiring women to wear the hijab head covering, transformed into outrage and demands for regime change over the corrupt, failing command economy. Similarly, in China, demonstrators’ grievances over the Communist Party’s authoritarian COVID policies expanded to include human rights abuses against ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang province and China’s economic policy failures, with some even demanding President Xi Jinping step down just weeks after he secured an unprecedented third term as party general secretary.
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