George Washington University (GW), amid widespread criticism, has reversed its decision to censor criticism of Beijing, admitting it was a mistake to remove political posters on campus at the behest of a Chinese student group controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The posters in question are designed in a way that at the first glance they look like real advertisements for the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing that are currently underway, but in fact contain satirical messages against ongoing human right abuses in China. One of the posters depicts a Chinese biathlete pointing her rifle execution style at a blindfolded Uyghur man. In another poster, a Chinese figure skater skates over a bleeding flag of Hong Kong, representing the dramatic decline of the city’s freedoms under ever-tightening CCP control.
