China’s white paper protest: Why ‘zero COVID’ activists are holding up blank sheets

By Brady Knox
Published November 28, 2022 7:43pm ET
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China’s white paper protest: Why ‘zero COVID’ activists are holding up blank sheets
A protester holds up a blank paper and chants slogans during a march in protest in Beijing, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022.

In one of China’s greatest displays of public discontent since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, an unconventional item has come to symbolize the new protests: a blank sheet of white paper.

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