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China’s ‘Blank-Page Revolution’ draws global attention

Blank sheets of paper, held by Chinese protestors, have become a symbol of a mass uprising being witnessed against the strict zero-COVID policy of Communist-ruled China.

A CNN report said that white papers are metaphors for the countless critical posts, news articles, and outspoken social media accounts that were wiped from the internet. China’s crackdown on anti-COVID protests has prompted calls from the global community to stand beside the protesters and take action against the Chinese authorities.

Writing for the American Magazine National Review, columnists Jianli Yang and Bradley Thayer argued that the legacy of the blank-page revolution will be long. They also contended that its implications are multifaceted and likely to light the fuse of a larger revolution that will yield a free China.

In a joint op-ed, Yang and Thayer said that Xi Jinping will do everything in his power to reignite fear in his comrades and in the people and to promote his image as that of an invincible great leader who knows best.

Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) supporters holding white blank sheets stage a protest in solidarity with the ongoing White Paper protests in China, in New Delhi on Friday. (ANI Photo)

“The international community should use all available means to support pro-democracy forces and to deter the Beijing regime from resorting to force, and especially to prevent another massacre on the scale of Tiananmen,” they said.

Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China’s biggest city and financial centre, began publicly protesting the government’s strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authoritarian rule, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

University students across the country gathered on their campuses to demonstrate, and that night, hundreds of people in Wuhan, where Covid-19 originated, Chengdu, Beijing, and other large cities, took to the streets.

The protest in Shanghai was in response to a November 24 fire at an apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of China’s northwest Xinjiang region, in which at least 10 people were killed.

Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) supporters holding white blank sheets stage a protest in solidarity with the ongoing White Paper protests in China, in New Delhi on Friday. (ANI Photo)

In the InsideOver publication, columnist Federico Giuliani argued that the Chinese President is facing an unprecedented crisis.

“The world is keenly watching the Unthinkable collapse of Communist China as analysts believe that if Xi Jinping does not give up the Zero-COVID Clearing policy, it may lead to major changes, and China is in the midst of a major turning point,” he said. (ANI)

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