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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The China White Paper is the common name for United States Relations with China, with Special Reference to the Period 1944—1949, published in August 1949 by the United States Department of State in response to public concern about the impending victory of Chinese Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War.
As unprecedented demonstrations against China’s covid restrictions sweep across the country, protestors from Beijing to Shanghai are holding aloft sheets of blank A4 paper, and WeChat feeds are ...
The 2019–20 Hong Kong protests were a large series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government’s introduction of a bill that would have made it legal for Hong Kong to extradite criminal suspects to mainland China. These protests were the largest in the history of Hong Kong.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park is an enclave within Battery Park City in New York City. The following institutions and facilities have been named in honor of Nelson A. Rockefeller: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, a social science research center. [158]
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 ...