If you went to the New York Halloween parade this year, did you see a group of 30 people dressed up in white medical suits and holding signs with Chinese characters? The long-going zero-COVID policy and violence against citizens in China have aroused anger of the Chinese diasporas.
Most of the protesters were students and new immigrants, who still have families in China facing months-long governmental COVID-19 lockdowns and inhumane treatment from the government. Sparked by a recent incident in Beijing, where an anonymous man hung banners on a bridge accusing President Xi Jinping of being a dictator, Chinese diasporas joined the Halloween parade to demonstrate their outrage.
