China’s emergence from that period was abrupt, marking a rare recent instance where public frustrations erupted into protests that prompted a government response. Just five months after the end of the Shanghai lockdown, a deadly residential building fire in Xinjiang ignited China’s White Paper protests.
Residents took to the streets protesting with blank A4 sheets of paper, to express their dissatisfaction with the government’s strict COVID measures.
This reads like shit, people have always been leaving china whether because they dislike the regime or want more money, and it mentions a very small minority instead of something larger, say people leaving USA because of the Anti-Trans policies or polish people leaving UK because of Brexit
Whatever gets you the clicks I guess