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Tens of thousands of protests occur each year. National level protests are less common. Notable protests include the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the April 1999 demonstration by Falun Gong practitioners at Zhongnanhai, the 2008 Tibetan unrest, the July 2009 Ürümqi riots, and the 2022 COVID-19 protests.
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 ...
Tiananmen Square protests (disambiguation) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre; 2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations; 2008 Tibetan unrest; 1025 rally to safeguard Taiwan; Nanjing anti-African protests; Dongzhou protests; 2010 Chinese labour unrest; Any of the protests in China in 2011; 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
The Zhengzhou Foxconn protests, officially referred to by Foxconn Technology Group as the "Zhengzhou Mass Gathering Incident", began in November 2022. [1] These protests, strikes, and violent clashes were initiated and participated in by some employees at the Zhengzhou factory in Henan Province, China, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group (known as Foxconn in mainland China), in response ...
In 2004 these issues reached their height and with a combination of labor shortages and a growing understanding of rights led to the outbreak of mass incidents. This included 863 protests across the Guangdong province. [7] These protests involved over 50,000 workers and involved rioting over requests for higher pay and violence due to unpaid ...
2010 Tibetan language protest; 2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest; 2011 crackdown on dissidents in China; 2011 Inner Mongolia unrest; 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests; 2011 Yunnan protest; 2012 anti-Japanese demonstrations in China; 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests; 2020 Inner Mongolia protests; 2022 Beijing Sitong Bridge protest; 2022 Henan ...
The European Union and United States embargo on armament sales to China, put in place due to the violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests, remains in place today. China has been calling for a lift of the ban for years and has had a varying amount of support from European Union members.
The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong. [22] [23]