Many observers considered mass protests in China hardly possible because of the surveillance. But the demonstrators surprised the censors with creativity – and foreign messenger services.
In Beijing on Sunday evening, demonstrators present blank white sheets in protest once morest the zero-Covid policy and censorship.
Mid-October, just before the important one 20th Congress of China’s Communist Party, a man in Beijing demonstrated with banners on a bridge once morest the strict Covid policy and the “dictator” and “traitor Xi Jinping”. Many Chinese were amazed. Despite the ubiquitous surveillance by cameras, despite the automated facial recognition and the omnipresent security guards in the capital: a single, courageous man had managed to express his displeasure and openly criticize the regime.
