Three years have passed since the White Paper protests in China. The legacy may be the awakening of a new generation and greater solidarity between ethnic groups, writes Yalkun Uluyol of HRW
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/23/the-legacy-of-the-white-paper-protests
The latest China Dissent Monitor is out now. It notes a persistent increase in dissent events and an increase in protests related to schools and education.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/china-dissent-monitor/2025/issue-10-july-september-2025
Freedom House's China Dissent Monitor has documented more than 10,000 protest actions over three years
"The insights that CDM gains into protest actions often shed light on broader trends within China: for example, the recent increase in demonstrations against unscrupulous residential property management companies has exposed another layer of the country’s complex economic woes."
https://freedomhouse.org/article/protests-appear-be-increasing-china-what-can-we-learn-them
Peng Lifa (彭立發 aka 彭載舟) was disappeared by Chinese authorities after hanging banners critical of CCP policies from a bridge in Beijing in October 2022.
News has recently come out that he has been sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges including “arson” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”
https://www.nchrd.org/2025/07/china-quash-wrongful-sentence-of-beijing-bridge-protester/
Freedom House has relaunched its China Dissent Monitor. The project was on hold due to budget cuts by the Trump government. It now has funds to operate for 60 days. It provides data and reports on protest and dissent activities in China
I ended up writing a general 'explainer' for The Spinoff on the #ChinaProtests #A4运动 because Madeleine asked me to, and even though I'm sick, I woulda stayed up hope-scrolling anyway. Mainly keeps my 😭😭😭😭😭😭 out of it, that's just for you...
Hundreds of Chinese communist youths gathered for a huge demonstration at the Mao Zedong Square in the city of Shaoshan, Mao’s birthplace, on the eve of the communist leader’s birthday. With paroles echoing across the square, the protesters condemned the capitalist restoration policies of the ruling Communist Party of China, calling for a return to socialism and collectivization.
Hundreds protest in Chinese cities over health insurance reforms
An outpouring of frustration has been sparked by reforms to China’s vast public health insurance system that have reduced allowances paid monthly to retirees.
https://hongkongfp.com/2023/02/15/hundreds-protest-in-chinese-cities-over-health-insurance-reforms/
河北某地农民工讨要工资警局门前举起白纸
Migrant workers in a certain place in Hebei begged for wages and held up blank papers in front of the police station
I talked about the role of women and feminists in the covid protests and the emerging interethnic solidarity in diaspora communities in the latest episode of the little red podcast, and honoured to be in great company.
https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/the-death-of-covid-zero
#podcast #chinaprotests #A4Revolution
RT @MoDem: 🇨🇳 #ChinaProtests | Soutenir le peuple Chinois
💬 “La #Chine voit sa jeunesse et sa population se soulever contre le régime dictatorial.
L'#Europe doit se tenir aux côtés des Chinois qui manifestent pour leurs droits fondamentaux et leur quête de liberté.”
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MariePierreV/status/1603781627850653697
因支持“白紙運動”的學生
南開大學講師遭校方強送精神病醫院
Lecturer at Nankai University was sent to a mental hospital forcibly by the school for supporting the students of the "White Paper Movement"
What happened in China after they dropped their zero-Covid policy? HC fellow in China, Renzong Qiu, tells us "A massive wave of Covid infections has begun...The ethical imperative facing Chinese people and our government is to find a way to both fulfill people’s urgent desire to lift Covid restrictions (and restore normal life and the economy) and to minimize the resulting harms." He tells us how. READ #ChinaProtests
#bioethics #ethics #covid
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/a-warning-from-china-after-the-zero-covid-policy-2/
12月12日四川南充市川北医学院
在四川高校基本全部遣返的情况下学生还在继续考期末，因此今晚学生们自发游行，本科生要求返乡，专硕要求同工同酬
December 12, Sichuan North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong City, Sichuan
Under the circumstances that almost all colleges and universities in Sichuan are repatriated, students are still continuing to take the final exam, so tonight the students spontaneously marched, undergraduates demanded to return to their hometowns, and postgraduates demanded equal pay for equal work
12月12日 福州大学，因为针对返乡的方案朝令夕改，导致今晚学生聚集在三区操场抗议。
On December 12th, Fuzhou University, because the plan for returning home was changed day and night, so students gathered in the playground of the third district to protest tonight.
On the evening of the 12th Beijing time, several universities or institutions were still organizing protests, including:
Xuzhou Medical University Protest
Guangxi University
Jiangsu People's Hospital Protests
Nanchang University Jiangxi Medical College Protests
Sichuan West China Medical University Protest
Anti-blockade protest at Chongqing Medical University
Kunming Medical University
北京时间12号晚，有几间大学或机构仍在组织抗议活动，其中包括：
徐州医科大学专硕抗议
广西大学
江苏人民医院专硕抗议
南昌大学江西医学院专硕抗议
四川华西医学院抗议
重庆医科大学反封控抗议
昆明医科大学
长期的半公开的剥削和压迫，让医学生、规培生、住院医等底层医护苦不堪言，并对所谓“潜规则”充满不满。哪里有剥削，哪里就有反抗。很多地方爆发了医护工作者们对剥削压迫者们的抗议和反抗行为。
昆明医科大学附属第一医院，12日爆发研究生学生游行，发生冲突。据说不让学生放假，不给工资还上最苦最累的班。
The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, on the 12th, a parade of postgraduate students broke out and clashed. It is said that students are not allowed to take vacations, and they are not paid to work in the hardest and most tiring classes.
