“A blank sheet of paper with various expressions is unavoidable in this movement,” Law wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Because the conditions for broad mass consensus … do not exist.” ...

So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a ...

“The blank papers, candles ... Some exiled Chinese activists said the White Paper Movement has also rejuvenated the overseas Chinese democracy movement, which has been mainly headed by activists ...

"The 2023 Halloween parade was the largest social movement in Shanghai after the 2022 Urumqi Middle Road blank paper movement, with thousands of people participating," he wrote. "Each activist ...

He was one of thousands of people demonstrating across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the blank sheets of paper protesters used to represent the country’s strict ...

(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) The movement, however ... pro-democracy demonstrators used blank paper — including plastering walls with empty Post-it notes — to signal their resistance to Beijing.

The “Blank Paper Movement” started with protests in several major cities across China over the past week, after a fire on Nov. 24 in Urumqi, Xinjiang, killed 10 people in a building that was under ...

The blank sheets say nothing and ... Flowers and candles will join paper as dangerous symbols of contention. The Democracy Wall movement of 1978 allowed Deng Xiaoping to gain the upper hand ...

Protests have broken out throughout China, and students and other residents have joined the “blank paper movement” in dozens of places after COVID-19 restrictions reportedly delayed rescue efforts in ...

It was also referred to as the “blank paper movement” because participants held up white sheets of paper to show their opposition. Afterward, she lost contact with friends who were also at the ...

Though the blank paper protest symbol is inconspicuous ... People were outraged, saying pandemic restrictions on movement slowed and made ineffective the firefighters’ ability to rescue the ...