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Despite the increase in protests, some scholars have argued that they may not pose an existential threat to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule because they lack "connective tissue"; [7] the preponderance of protests in China are aimed at local-level officials, and only a select few dissident movements seek systemic change. [8]
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 ...
Scandals and corruption in China shook people's confidence of the country's political systems; the Moral and National Education controversy in 2012, the Express Rail Link project connecting Hong Kong with mainland cities and the subsequent co-location agreement proved highly controversial. Citizens saw these policies as Beijing's decision to ...
Anti-Chinese sentiments have been on a sharp rise in Japan since 2002. According to the Pew Global Attitude Project (2008), 84% of Japanese people held an unfavorable view of China and 73% of Japanese people held an unfavorable view of Chinese people, which was a higher percentage than all the other countries surveyed. [60]
The popular online forum Reddit went down hours after thousands of Reddit communities launched a protest taking their communities private. Reddit says protesting communities crashed the site Skip ...
Later, some advanced students in Shanghai and Guangzhou joined the protest movement, gradually forming a wave of mass student strikes across China. Until June, the Beijing government carried out the "June 3" arrests, arresting nearly 1,000 students one after another, but this did not suppress the patriotic student movement but angered the ...
The protest is over one of Reddit’s efforts to bring in more money. While many people use its official app or website, others get a similar experience through apps made by third-party software ...
The protests were precipitated by the death of pro-reform Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989 amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social change in post-Mao China, reflecting anxieties among the people and political elite about the country's future.