Henan

Angry Chinese citizens this week defied massive government propaganda, and challenged China’s vast army of censors, to blame state policies and mismanagement for deaths from typhoon flooding.

China’s military allegedly deployed armored tanks to the streets of Henan province in recent days to block protesters from gathering outside local banks and demanding access to millions of dollars in deposits unceremoniously frozen in April, Asian News International (ANI) reported on Thursday.

China’s state-run Global Times claimed on Tuesday that Western media was unnecessarily “hyping” protests by roughly 1,000 people in Zhengzhou, China, on Sunday in which participants demanded several rural banks release millions of dollars of deposits after unceremoniously freezing them in April, ignoring the fact that Chinese security personnel physically abused and injured several demonstrators during the rally.

Chinese officials on Wednesday addressed mounting public outrage over the abuse of the mandatory coronavirus “health code” system to suppress protests against a banking scandal – by improbably claiming the whole affair was just a minor technical glitch.

Chinese Communist Party officials in China’s Henan province “either concealed or delayed” the documentation of 139 deaths from floods that devastated the east-central region in July 2021, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

Chinese Communist Party officials ordered the roughly 110 million residents of central China’s Henan province to enter various degrees of lockdown this week to contain a province-wide outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported Wednesday.

Record floods across China’s Henan province in July killed 302 people — three times the number originally reported — Henan Communist Party Officials announced Monday.