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2022 Beijing Sitong Bridge Protest
The Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest that took place on October 13, 2022, in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. The protest happened three days before the opening of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the morning of October 13, 2022, a protester demonstrated against General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP general secretary Xi Jinping's Xi Jinping's cult of personality, cult of personality, Xi Jinping Administration, dictatorship, Human rights in China, human rights violations, strengthening of Censorship in China, censorship, seeking of President for life, leadership for life and implementation of the zero-COVID policy by hanging banners and burning tires on () in Haidian, Beijing. The protester, Peng Lifa (彭立发; pinyin: Péng Lìfā; b. 1974), has been dubbed Bridge Man or Banner Man in reference to Tank Man. Background Protests took place frequently in China in the 2000s, with 180,000 protests taking p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Democracy Movement
Democracy movements in the People's Republic of China are a series of organized political movements, inside and outside of the country, addressing a variety of grievances, including objections to socialist bureaucratism and objections to the continuation of the one-party rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) itself. The Democracy Wall movement of November 1978 to spring 1981 is typically regarded as the beginning of contemporary Chinese democracy movement. In addition to the Democracy Wall movement, the events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre are among the notable examples of Chinese democracy movements. History Origin The beginning of China's democracy movements is usually regarded as the Democracy Wall movement of November 1978 to spring 1981. The Democracy Wall movement framed the key issue as the elimination of bureaucratism and the bureaucratic class. Former Red Guards from both rebel and conservative factions were the core of the movement. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
