A Chinese girl has been pictured defiantly standing up to baton wielding police as people protest against the zero Covid strategy and repression.
She has now been dubbed the “tank lady” in reference to the iconic images of the Chinese man who stood in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square holding bags in each hand during the 1989 uprising in Beijing that was brutally repressed.
Over 30 years later and demonstrators have been pouring onto the streets in cities including Shanghai and Beijing, criticising the zero Covid policy, confronting police - and even calling for leader Xi Jinping to step down.
