Cops in Beijing were searching for a group of protestors who hung anti-Xi banners and lit a small fire on a pedestrian bridge near a busy intersection in a rare show of protest against the ChiCom regime and its COVID lockdown policies on Thursday, Bloomberg reports. “We want food, not PCR tests. We want freedom, not lockdowns and controls. We want respect, not lies,” said one of the banners, which also called for elections and described Xi as a “lingxiu” – a term which literally means “leader” but was reserved for ChiCom founding father and lifelong dictator Mao Zedong. The other banner called for strikes and boycotts. The small but significant for China protest comes just days ahead of Xi’s bid for a third term at the ChiCom party’s congress in defiance of the two-five year term norm and, of course, with zero input from actual regular Chinese citizens.