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.

Chinese protesters have turned to a uniquely plain everyday object in their demonstrations against the strict “zero COVID” strategy — a blank sheet of paper. As mass demonstrations first erupted in ...

China is entering its fourth day of rare, widespread protests. The protests have become known as the “white paper protests,” due to citizens holding up blank A4 sheets of paper in defiance of ...

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Protestors in China are voicing their outrage over the country's strict COVID-19 lockdown policies, demanding increased freedom and calling for President Xi Jinping to step down. With protests ...

In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math ...

The rare protests that spread across China over the weekend often featured demonstrators holding pieces of blank white paper, a phenomenon that has caused problems for the country’s top stationery ...

In a rare show of defiance, crowds in China gathered for the third night as protests against Covid restrictions spread to Beijing, Shanghai and other cities. People held blank sheets of paper, ...

Chinese exiles gathered in cities around the world to mark the second anniversary of the “White Paper Movement” in China, saying the demonstrations against the COVID-19 lockdown policies have inspired ...

HONG KONG — There were no slogans and no words, only blank white sheets of paper, quivering in the hands of a few dozen Hong Kong residents standing in a shopping mall, saying nothing at all. The ...

The Disney Store in Japan is selling items that depict Winnie the Pooh raising a blank piece of white paper on them, including T-shirts, hoodies, tote bags and mugs. T-shirts on Japan’s Disney Store ...