Given the CCP’s relatively advanced state surveillance/censorship regime, the mere fact that the images below have leaked into the online sphere is a minor miracle.

Their survival in the face of the CCP’s level-ten censorship speaks to the insatiable human hunger for real information, or maybe to the still-unconquered Wild West that the internet was intended to become.

In any case, the imagery emerging from Orwellian nightmare Shanghai is, without exaggeration, jaw-dropping. Even in the context of widespread authoritarian government abuses carried out in the name of “public health,” to which we have become increasingly desensitized, it shocks the conscience.

Here is Canadian PM Justin Trudeau describing his admiration of China – not in spite of, but rather specifically because of, its authoritarian trampling of human rights with impunity: “There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-04-20/unreal-images-emerge-orwellian-nightmare-shanghai