Beijing Protest Art Reveals Anger Over Zero-COVID Policy


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Protest art scrawled upon Beijing covid testing stations reveals an undercurrent of anger about China’s zero-COVID policy in the capital. The two seemingly unrelated protests are part of a larger stream of oft-censored artistic dissent against the country’s pandemic policy. Both protests turned testing booths, which have sprouted up everywhere in order to create “ 15-minute Testing Service Circles ” in compliance with central government mandates , into a canvas. CDT Chinese archived photographs of the protests, both of which were hastily scrubbed off of the testing stations and censored from the internet . The first protest: The first protest,...