With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Protests have exploded across China against President Xi Jinping's three-year zero-COVID policy.

It's a reaction to a number of incidents like widespread hunger and Shanghai,

forced lock-ins at factories like Foxconn's 200,000-worker iPhone plant,

and most recently the deaths of 10 people in a residential fire,

where first responders were delayed because of pandemic restrictions.

The brutality of the state has left many ordinary Chinese with no alternative but to resist.

127-year-old protesters said,

We want our basic human rights as citizens.

And later on social media, he said,

If my speech was useful, I'm one step closer to being an ideal Chinese.

Look in the worldview of China's atheist regime,

there are no metaphysical grounds for human rights for speech for the dignity of the individual.

There's only the state and the will of those that are in power.

That creates a culture both inhumane and unstable.

Please pray that by the grace of God, what comes from this chaos

will be a better future for the Chinese.

For the call sincere, I'm John Stone Street.