00:00Protesters in China are holding up blank sheets of white paper and demonstrations
00:04taking place across the country. So what do these blank papers mean?
00:07Brute can explain in less than 60 seconds. As people across China continue to protest
00:12the country's zero COVID policy and the government's strict enforcement of it,
00:16many protesters have taken to holding up blank sheets of white paper to protest
00:20government censorship. The white paper represents everything we want to say,
00:23but cannot say, said a 26-year-old protester in Beijing.
00:27The tactic has been used before by protesters wanting to evade arrest,
00:31since using words or symbols on signs in some countries could be considered an act of sedition
00:37or terrorism. The white papers were used in the 2020 protests in Hong Kong after several
00:42slogans were banned and were also seen in Russia following Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
00:46Some people have also claimed that the blank papers are a symbol of the pro-democracy social
00:51media accounts, images, and posts that have been wiped from the internet by government officials
00:57amid the ongoing protests.
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