Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Selina Wang, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Selina Wang, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 How a Twitter account with a cat avatar took on Beijing https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2022/12/11/how-a-twitter-account-with-a-cat-avatar-took-on-beijing/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 10:55:14 +0000 https://newswatchplus-staging.azurewebsites.net/?p= (CNN) — The unprecedented protests that swept China late last month, posing the biggest challenge to leader Xi Jinping’s authority since he came to power, had a peculiar focal point: a Chinese Twitter account with a cat avatar. As people took to the streets to call for greater freedoms and an end to zero-Covid restrictions, the account

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