Authorities across China are cracking down on thousands of college students who took part in mass night-cycling events that commentators said could be seen as a new form of protest against the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
The police department in Henan’s Zhengzhou city issued a warning to students on Nov. 9, following a mass “night ride to Kaifeng” by thousands of young people a day earlier, as a social media video about riding to the city in search of dumplings spawned dozens of copycat outings, eventually expanding to a mass cycle ride that some observers said left the authorities rattled, concerned that it could turn into a political protest like the “white paper” movement two years ago, or Halloween in Shanghai.
Edit: these events are widely reported by diverse news sources:
BBC | CNN | ABC (Australia) | Sky News
Wasn’t that also their issue with Falun Gong, which started out as an apolitical mass meditation/exercise movement, though committed the crime of challenging the Party’s monopoly on organising mass activities of any sort?
Falun Gong were never innocuous. They’re about as sane as Aum Shinrikyo or the Moonies. I despise the CCP, but those whackjobs are no better.
Suppressing homophobic, antivax racists who want to return China to the era of foot binding is good actually.
It’s funny that, despite having zero idea what either of you are talking about, I knew you’d be a .ml account?
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They did challenge the state and also are an insane cult. Go to a shenyun concert in america and youll see