China: More than 30 years after Tiananmen Square, students are again on frontline of protest

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China: More than 30 years after Tiananmen Square, students are again on frontline of protest
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Students across China have joined in a wave of dissent hitting the country, holding up blank sheets of paper in silent protest

Hundreds gathered on the campus of Tsinghua University - Sky News has verified the location of videos coming out of Beijing - chanting"freedom of expression democracy rule of law".

One Chinese speaker on Weibo - whose IP registers them as not in mainland China - warned students against speaking up at these"symposiums".Protests in China are featured heavily on English-language sites across the world - but for citizens within the country, that's not the case.

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