Demonstrators hold blank signs during a protest in Beijing, China, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Bloomberg via Getty Images “The white paper represent[s] everything we want to say but cannot say ...

The blank sheet of paper has become so pervasive that, online, people have begun referring to the protests in China as the “A4 revolution”—a reference to the standard paper size used in ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper to express their anger over Covid-19 restrictions in a rare, widespread outpouring of public dissent that has gone beyond ...

How blank sheets of paper became a symbol of defiance for China's anti-lockdown protesters Hundreds of people took to the streets in China's major cities on Sunday to protest against the country's ...

In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math ...

A sheet of white paper has become a symbol of protest against COVID lockdowns in China. People in major Chinese cities held up blank pieces of A4 paper while marching in the streets. News about ...

‘If you fear a blank sheet of paper, you are weak inside.’ — One much-quoted social media post from China. The antecedents of white-paper protests stretch back at least as far as 1924, when ...

Chinese protesters have turned to blank sheets of paper to express their anger over COVID-19 restrictions in a rare, widespread outpouring of public dissent that has gone beyond social media to ...

Though the blank paper protest symbol is inconspicuous, even silent, some protesters are also making loud, explicit statements — some so extraordinarily strong that they’re rarely heard in China.