Good breakdown, but it also matters that the government’s own response — cutting the internet, labeling protesters as puppets of foreign powers, and cracking down hard — is feeding the narrative that this isn’t a blip you can manage. Once people see repression instead of reform, the protest becomes about legitimacy, not just prices.
Good breakdown, but it also matters that the government’s own response — cutting the internet, labeling protesters as puppets of foreign powers, and cracking down hard — is feeding the narrative that this isn’t a blip you can manage. Once people see repression instead of reform, the protest becomes about legitimacy, not just prices.