Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Mao Zedong’s communist regime, warned the public that the Chinese Communist Party will use “any means necessary” to block the protests against Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy. “During the past 75 years, Chinese people put up [with] so much abuse from the totalitarian communist government. But it was the past three years, Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy that brought people to the breaking point” Van Fleet said. Yet China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted, “What we want is to protect our people’s lives and ensure them a better life.â€