Outraged citizens in Henan province, China, attacked cops and overturned a police car on Monday after authorities attempted to enforce a ban on new year fireworks, social media videos and local reports revealed.
Expecting censorship, many Chinese-language outlets abroad downloaded and saved videos of the incident apparently taken at the scene.that the local public security bureau confirmed the incident and charged six people with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a catch-all crime for any display of dissent or disrespect towards the government. Police added some details – that the incident appeared to occur at 11 p.m.
Voice of America noted that, while fireworks have a long and storied tradition of being used in celebrations in China, the Communist Party has imposed a nationwide ban on the private use of fireworks since 2018. Defiance of that edict appears to be a separate public expression of disapproval but connected to a growing lack of respect for the regime and its brutal forces nationwide.
“The Chinese have learned that they can use protest to get what they want, which is a huge improvement on the way things were,” Wang Jian, a public commentator, told RFA. Wang noted that the protests this week appeared to be in the same line as those in November, many of which did not identify a specific grievance but instead consisted of protesters holding up blank pieces of paper – to represent everything the government allowed them to legally say.
Henan province is developing into one of the country’s major hotbeds of civil unrest. Its capital, Zhengzhou, is home to the world’s largest iPhone factory, managed by the supplier Foxconn. The iPhone factory endured a state of chaos and rioting for much of the end of 2022 as a result of its onerous coronavirus lockdown policies.
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