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Tao Zhang, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University

Projecting dissent: China’s new politics of resistance under surveillance

As China ramped up its security in Bejing ahead of its largest military parade in history, over in Chongqing, a city of 30 million people, slogans mysteriously appeared projected on the walls of a university residential complex. “Only without the Communist Party can there be a new China,” read one. “Freedom is not given but seized,” said another. A third urged: “Down with red fascism, overthrow Communist tyranny.”

When the police finally tracked down the source of these projections to a hotel room nearby, they found it empty apart from a projector and remotely controlled cameras which captured their confusion at the puzzling scene. This footage was uploaded on to X along with the slogans projected on the university building walls.

Translated X post with pictures of slgans projected on the walls of buildings.
News of the incident was quickly shared on social media. @whyyoutouzhele via X
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