From blank paper to alpacas: how protesters in China are voicing their anger

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Oct 23, 2023
The largest protests in a generation erupted in cities across China over the weekend against the government’s zero-Covid policy.
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The most widely used symbol in the demonstrations has been a blank sheet of paper. It symbolises censorship, and may also, some Twitter users pointed out, be read as a reference to the deaths last week of 10 people in a building fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, which was blamed on lockdown restrictions that protesters believe prevented the residents from escaping in time. In China, white is a colour used at funerals. But protesters have found other creative ways to express their anger, as Helen Davidson explains

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