Social media users have slammed China’s reported use of military tanks to intimidate bank customers protesting against the freezing of their savings. Some users claimed the deployment of military tanks exposes the country’s underlying economic problems. Crypto proponents see the issue as a vindication of their long-standing argument.
Savings Now Investment Products
Some social media users have derided Chinese authorities’ reported decision to deploy tanks around the central bank’s offices in Henan where bank customers have been protesting against the freezing of their savings. The deployment of tanks follows reports the central bank in Henan Province told the protesting clients that their savings were now investment products. This meant affected bank clients could not withdraw their savings.
In some of the videos, which have since gone viral on Twitter, military tanks are seen rolling in and around the area said to be the Bank of China’s offices. The deployment of the tanks comes less than two weeks after Bitcoin.com News reported that angry bank customers had tussled with security guards protecting the premises of the Bank of China.
Still, some Twitter users questioned claims that the videos, which were posted on July 20, were shot in Henan. One user, Angelo Guiliano, insisted the video was in fact shot in Rizhou City, Shandong Province, some 440+ kilometers away.
Invoking Tiananmen Square Protests Aftermath
Nevertheless, the doubts about where the video was shot did not stop it from going viral and eliciting a reaction from Twitter users. As per reports, the tank deployment has led to speculation that Chinese authorities may be attempting to pacify angry customers by reminding them that the government will brutally crush the protests as it did in 1989. At that time, a student-led protest against corruption, inflation, and the country’s political system sparked a brutal reaction from the government which responded by sending armed troops to Tiananmen Square where protestors amassed.
It is thought the deployment of the tanks, as well as images of a tank crushing a protestor, eventually helped to end the demonstrations which lasted for a month and nearly three weeks. Thousands of protestors are believed to have died during the Tiananmen protests and more are said to have been injured.
According to a report by The Print, the deployment of tanks is intended to intimidate protesting bank customers, some of whom are seen in another…
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