They went to their first demonstrations. They chanted their first protest slogans. They had their first encounter with the police.
Then they went home, shivering in disbelief at how they had challenged the most powerful authoritarian government in the world and the most iron-fisted leader China has seen in decades.
Young Chinese are protesting the country's harsh COVID-zero policy and even urging its top leader Xi Jinping to step down. It is something China hasn't seen since 1989 when the ruling Communist Party brutally slapped the pro-democracy demonstrators, mostly college students. The young protesters have presented a new threat to the rule of Xi, who has eliminated his political opponents and suppressed any voice that challenges his rule, no matter what happens in the days and weeks ahead.
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