Journalism of Courage
As protests in China continued to escalate, countries such as the United States, Canada, Japan, and Malaysia, among others, expressed their solidarity with Chinese protesters who have been demonstrating against the stringent zero-COVID measures, and demanding the resignation of President Xi Jinping. (Photo: Reuters)
Protesters in the United States demonstrated near the Chinese consulate. In this picture, a person holding an umbrella with a slogan on it, takes part in the anti-Chinese government protests, near the Chinese consulate in New York City. (Photo: Reuters)
Hundreds of students and faculty at Harvard University in Cambridge participated in the protests on November 29. In this picture, a demonstrator chants beside the John Harvard Statue which has a mask over his eyes, at the Harvard Yard. (Photo: AP)
Outside the Chinese consulate at Toronto, Ontario, in Canada, people held banners against Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as commemorated the victims of the fire in Urumqi that killed 10 people in China. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has supported the Chinese protesters’ right to express themselves. (Photo: Reuters)
A Chinese resident living in Japan is seen taking part in a solidarity protest against China's Covid-19 lockdowns, in Tokyo. (Photo: Reuters)
At the University of Hong Kong (HKU), people held up blank sheets of paper, in solidarity with the protesters in other parts of China. (Photo: Reuters)
The White House on Monday, in a statement, upheld everyone's "right to peacefully protest, in the United States and around the world." However, it has stopped short of criticising Beijing over the zero-Covid policy. (Photo: Reuters)
South Korea also witnessed protests, denouncing the COVID policies in China, in the capital city of Seoul on November 30. (Photo: AP)
In New York City, people installed a hazmat-suit upon a tree, in a show of resistance against lockdowns in China, as the country inches closer to three years into the pandemic. (Photo: Reuters)
Support also poured in from San Francisco, US, where protesters demonstrated by holding up banners at Portsmouth Square. (Photo: AP)
Moreover, about a dozen people gathered at the University of Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, chanting against virus restrictions and holding up sheets with slogans critical of the stringent Chinese Covid policy. (Photo: AP)
