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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Erin Hale

How one Chinese Twitter user exposed COVID protests to the world

"Teacher Li," a pseudonymous Chinese Twitter user based overseas, has shared numerous videos and images of China's anti-“zero-COVID” protests [File: Twitter]

Taipei, Taiwan – As China faced its biggest protests in a generation last month, one Twitter account played an outsized role in taking protesters’ message beyond the Great Firewall to the outside world.

“Teacher Li is not your teacher”, a pseudonymous Chinese Twitter user based overseas, shared countless videos and images of defiance as protests erupted across the country in opposition to Beijing’s harsh “zero-COVID” restrictions.

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