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2022年11月，中国发生了广泛的反政府抗议活动，抗议为应对COVID-19大流行病而进行的封锁、大规模监控和强制测试。
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这些抗议活动被记录在31个城市的68个城市中，被称为 “白纸运动”。
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作为对抗议活动的回应，中国警方使用监控录像和面部识别技术，拘留了众多抗议者。
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据中国人权维护者称，超过30人被拘留，至少有100人被传唤、审讯或拘留。
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许多逮捕事件仍未被报道，许多抗议者被保释，但仍被警方严密监视一年之久。
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抗议活动使许多普通的中国年轻人变成了偶然的活动家，并重新点燃了中国的维权运动，在长达十年的对活动家、持不同政见者、维权律师和非政府组织的镇压下，这一运动几乎被彻底消灭。
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白纸运动 "与以前的 "维权 "运动不同，抗议者有一系列的动机，但他们带着对基本权利的相同渴望。
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长达10年的 "维权运动 "始于2003年，但在习近平执政期间对公民社会进行了一系列镇压后解散了。
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尽管政府批评者沉默了十多年，但2022年11月要求自由的声音之多显示了对习近平统治的持续不满。
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In November 2022, there were widespread anti-government protests in China, which decried the lockdowns, mass surveillance, and compulsory testing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The protests were recorded in 68 cities across 31 cities and became known as the “Blank Paper movement.”
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In response to the protests, the Chinese police used surveillance camera footage and facial recognition technology to detain numerous protesters.
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Over 30 people have been taken into custody, with at least 100 people being summoned, interrogated, or detained, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders.
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Many arrests remain unreported, and many protesters have been released on bail, but remain under close police surveillance for one year.
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The protests have turned many ordinary young Chinese into accidental activists and rekindled China’s rights defense movement, which was almost completely eradicated under the decade-long crackdown on activists, dissidents, rights lawyers, and NGOs.
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The “Blank Paper movement” is different from the previous “Weiquan” (rights defense) movement, as the protesters had a range of motivations, but they carry the same desire for basic rights.
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The decade-long Weiquan movement started in 2003 but dissolved after a series of crackdowns on civil society under Xi’s rule.
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Despite the silence of government critics for over a decade, the number of voices demanding freedom in November 2022 reveals ongoing discontent against Xi’s rule.