{"id":50641,"date":"2022-11-28T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/28\/why-blank-sheets-of-paper-have-become-a-symbol-of-dissent-in-china-video"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:33:14","slug":"why-blank-sheets-of-paper-have-become-a-symbol-of-dissent-in-china-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50641","title":{"rendered":"Why blank sheets of paper have become a symbol of dissent in China \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People opposed to China\u2019s strict Covid restrictions are protesting in cities across the country, holding blank pieces of paper as a symbol against censorship. The protests, triggered by a deadly apartment fire in the far west of the country, are taking place in defiance of a series of heavy-handed arrests of demonstrators. The protests mark the biggest wave of civil disobedience on the mainland since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a>&nbsp;assumed power a decade ago<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/anti-lockdown-protests-spread-across-china-amid-growing-anger-at-zero-covid-strategy\">Anti-lockdown protests spread in China as anger rises over zero-Covid strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/28\/why-blank-sheets-of-paper-have-become-a-symbol-of-dissent-in-china-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People opposed to China\u2019s strict Covid restrictions are protesting in cities across the country, holding blank pieces of paper as a symbol against censorship. The protests, triggered by a deadly apartment fire in the far west of the country, are taking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641\/revisions\/50668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}