Protest Banners Denouncing the CCP Appear in Beijing’s Upscale District

An anonymous protester unfurled banners denouncing the CCP as ‘an anti-human cult,’ echoing the 2022 demonstration by Peng Lifa.

On Oct. 25, 2025, just after the conclusion of the CCP’s Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee, two anti-CCP banners appeared on a street in Beijing’s Sanlitun district, denouncing the Party as an “anti-human cult.” Screenshot from social media by The Epoch Times

A rare act of public dissent was seen in the upscale Sanlitun Subdistrict of China’s capital city, Beijing, on Oct. 25, just as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded its Fourth Plenum of its 20th Central Committee.

Photos circulating on X showed two protest banners hung in the city’s Sanlitun district, denouncing the CCP as an “anti-human cult.”