Mass Defiance in China Shows Populace Fed Up With Communist Control

Mass Defiance in China Shows Populace Fed Up With Communist Control
A demonstrator holds a blank sign and chants slogans during a protest in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Bloomberg via Getty Images
Eva Fu
Updated:

A blank sheet of white paper has become the latest symbol of defiance in communist China.

From Beijing to Shanghai, throngs of protesters over the weekend held wordless papers high to vent their frustrations about the regime’s harsh COVID rules, while digital white rectangles inundated feeds on the country’s largest social media platform WeChat—even as censors scrambled to scrub them off the web.

Eva Fu
Eva Fu
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Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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