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A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. [6] [4] [7] [8] [9] Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), [10] [11] the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese government to prevent the ...
It set the stage for the White Paper protests, which started with a deadly apartment fire in Urumq i in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. Many questioned whether those who burned to death ...
In a rare display of defiance, protests have erupted across China over the government’s so-called zero-COVID policy. 'Very brave to protest': What to know about China's anti-lockdown ...
A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 "white paper" demonstrations against China's COVID restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week ...
A blank piece of A4 paper, held up in protest by a student at Hong Kong University. Blank pieces of paper, posters and placards have been used as a form of protest. The message sent by such a protest is meant to be implicit and understood, but the lack of writing and slogans on the paper itself is designed to thwart efforts by authorities to prove that their prohibitions and regulations have ...
The Haunted History of Halloween; Heavy Metal; Heroes Under Fire; Hidden Cities; Hidden House History; High Hitler; High Points in History; Hillbilly: The Real Story; History Alive; History Films; History in Color; History Now; History of Angels [19] A History of Britain; A History of God [20] History of the Joke; The History of Sex; History ...
These protests broke out in China and spread from Beijing to the southern province Guangdong. Demonstrators are said to have been furious about Japanese war history books and have thrown stones at the Japanese embassy in Beijing. [56] In 2005, a protest was held in Beijing against the distortion of Japan's wartime past and against Tokyo's ...
After the editorial was published, the students at Peking University in Beijing met during the night to discuss their plans for a march on April 27. [2] [3] Some of the authorities in the school tried to coax the students into calling it off; they gave hints that if the students did not protest, then the school officials would use their government connections to begin dialogues.