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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/business/china-chongqing-protest.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20250902&instance_id=161747&nl=breaking-news®i_id=122976029&segment_id=205119&user_id=b25c5730c89e0c73f75709d8f1254337
A Chinese activist used projection and surveillance footage to protest against the Communist Party, highlighting the irony of state surveillance. His actions, documented and shared online, garnered millions of views.
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- A Chinese activist used projection and surveillance footage to protest against the Communist Party, highlighting the irony of state surveillance. His actions, documented and shared online, garnered millions of views.
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In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China’s Surveillance State By Li Yuan Sept. 2, 2025Updated 11:57 a.m. ET On the eve of China’s grand military parade, an activist in a city with 30 million people staged a protest that doubled as performance art, proof that defiance can still surface, and survive, even in one of the world’s most surveilled states. At 10 p.m. on Friday in Chongqing, a large projection on a building lit up the night with slogans calling for the end of Communist Party rule. “Only without the Communist Party can there be a new China,” read one. Another declared: “No more lies, we want the truth. No more slavery, we want freedom.” It took the police 50 minutes to locate where the projection was coming from — a hotel nearby — and shut it down. That’s usually the end of such protests in China. But not in this case. A few hours later, the activist released video footage of five police officers entering the hotel room, rushing to the window and finding the projector hidd...
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Simplified: Activist staged demonstration against Communist Party in Chongqing before fleeing China.
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Simplified: Activist staged protest before China's military parade in city of 30 million.
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Simplified: Projection in Chongqing displayed slogans against Communist Party rule Friday at 10 p.m.
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Simplified: Police took 50 minutes to locate and shut down projection from nearby hotel.
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Simplified: Activist released video of five police officers finding projector in hotel room.
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Simplified: Qi Hong had left China nine days before police arrived.
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Simplified: Qi Hong activated projection and recorded police from remote location in Britain.
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Simplified: Technology strengthens Chinese government's ability to control people.
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Simplified: Post of projected slogans received over 18 million views in four days.
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Simplified: Peng Lifa 'Bridge Man' was seized by police after protest and has not been heard from.
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Simplified: China's economy is experiencing yearslong slowdown many struggle to find jobs.
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Simplified: Blogger Li said more people sent protest footage this year than in prior two years.
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Simplified: Qi Hong born in 1982 grew up in poverty near Chongqing.
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Simplified: Qi Hong dropped out of school at 16 joined migrant workers seeking work.
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Simplified: Qi Hong's fortune turned in 2006 selling items online on Taobao.
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By 2021, with their eldest daughter about to enter middle school, the family returned to Chongqing.0.900Simplified: Qi Hong's family returned to Chongqing by 2021.
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Simplified: Qi Hong checked into hotel August 10 practiced laser projection for 10 days.
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The police detained one of his brothers and a friend, and interrogated his mother outside her home.0.900Simplified: Police detained Qi Hong's brother and friend interrogated his mother.