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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 ...
Protesters with blank pieces of paper have become a common sight at demonstrations against Chinese authorities in recent days. People held blank signs at a vigil in Shanghai for victims of an ...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper to express their anger over COVID-19 restrictions in a rare, widespread outpouring of public dissent that has ...
The White Paper Movement or Blank Paper Revolution was a series of protests that emerged in China in late 2022 during which thousands of demonstrators displayed blank sheets of paper – a symbol ...
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 ...
In Beijing and Nanjing, protesters held up blank pieces of paper to mourn the victims of the fire as well as criticize the government's censorship policies. [17] Protests also occurred at universities and colleges such as Tsinghua University, [7] Peking University, [18] and Sun Yat-sen University. [19]
During these, protesters sometimes used inventive means to adapt, such as holding up blank sheets of paper, or singing the protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong with numbers instead of lyrics. [7] The month ended with major suppression activities by the local government, including the arrest of four student activists and a ban on twelve pan ...
In a rare display of defiance, protests have erupted across China over the government’s so-called zero-COVID policy. In a rare display of defiance, protests have erupted across China over the ...