China Envoy Blames ‘Foreign Forces’ for Covid Protests
- Chinese ambassador to France says some protesters were paid
- Beijing frequently blames civil disobedience on foreigners
Police officers during a protest in Beijing, on Nov 28.
Source: Bloomberg
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A Chinese diplomat blamed recent widespread protests against Covid Zero on outsiders seeking to spark “color revolutions,” an attempt to shift blame away from the harsh rules that dominated urbanites’ lives for nearly three years.
“At first, people took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with how local governments were unable to completely and accurately implement measures introduced by the central government, but the protests were quickly exploited by foreign forces,” said Lu Shaye, the Asian nation’s top envoy in France.