At a Jasmine Revolution protest in Toronto’s City Hall Square, Mr. Ren, a Chinese man born in the 1980s, stood among the crowd and shouted: “Give freedom back to the people.” He said he took to the streets in the hope of helping more people see the reality: “Only when the iron fist of socialism truly comes crashing down on your own head will you realize that your bowl is already full of sand — you simply can’t eat any more.”
Before the pandemic: Choosing to adapt to problems at hand
In an interview with the media, Mr. Ren said that before the pandemic, he had longed for a happy life where his family could live in harmony and stay together. “Although we weren’t wealthy, we believed there was still hope for the future. We seemingly knew about the various problems of Communist Party authoritarianism and the present chaos in society. Since these situations hadn’t affected us personally, we didn’t have a very deep understanding of them, and it wasn’t enough to awaken me. “As a Chinese citizen, standing up for our rights and resisting the system was never our first choice. Everyone was afraid, controlled by that servile mindset that ‘the people must not fight the authorities.’”
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