{"id":20762,"date":"2020-07-20T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/jul\/20\/howey-ou-chinas-first-school-climate-striker-video-profile"},"modified":"2020-07-20T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T08:55:56","slug":"howey-ou-chinas-first-school-climate-striker-video-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20762","title":{"rendered":"Howey Ou: China’s first school climate striker – video profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the first young person in China<\/a> to engage in Greta Thunberg-inspired Fridays for Future climate strikes, Howey Ou says she has become a target for the authorities who see that activism as a challenge to their control.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old claims she has been told to ditch her climate activism as a condition for her restarting studies at Guangxi Normal University affiliated high school in Guilin, where she studied until late 2018.<\/p>\n

It is not necessarily her concerns for the climate that have sparked a pressure campaign from authorities, Kecheng Fang, an assistant professor at the school of journalism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Guardian. He said: ‘Most importantly, because it is about collective action … No matter what kind of collective action it is, it\u2019s considered highly sensitive’<\/p>\n