China’s Military Pageantry Masks Popular Discontent

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on October 1, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein As the Chinese government celebrated the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in World War II and the country’s military might this week, criticism of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights record is building. For 50 minutes on August 29, large slogans projected on a building in Chongqing, one of China’s major cities, urged the Chinese people to “rise up against fascism” and “take back our own rights.” The cleverly executed feat was unprecedented—the activist…

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