{"id":50658,"date":"2022-11-29T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/blank-paper-equations-and-alpacas-the-symbols-of-chinas-zero-covid-protests"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:57:28","slug":"blank-paper-equations-and-alpacas-the-symbols-of-chinas-zero-covid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50658","title":{"rendered":"Blank paper, equations and alpacas: the symbols of China\u2019s zero-Covid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in China deploy creative means to make political statements in order to evade censors<\/p>\n<p>Blank sheets of paper, mathematical equations and even alpacas: protesters in China have found creative ways to express anger at the government\u2019s zero-Covid measures, unleashing a wave of dissent against long and severe lockdowns, the deaths of factory workers in Urumqi, and the censorship they\u2019re not allowed to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary protests, which began over the weekend and spread to cities across China including Shanghai and Beijing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-protests-explained-why-are-people-demonstrating-blank-piece-white-paper-a4-what-will-happen-next-zero-covid-policy-protest\">have been characterised by acts of civil disobedience<\/a>, including clashes with police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/blank-paper-equations-and-alpacas-the-symbols-of-chinas-zero-covid-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in China deploy creative means to make political statements in order to evade censorsBlank sheets of paper, mathematical equations and even alpacas: protesters in China have found creative ways to express anger at the government\u2019s zero-Covid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50658","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50659,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50658\/revisions\/50659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}