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    Hong Kong protesters step on images of Xi Jinping's face and appeal to the world

    by Alice Su and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, Los Angeles Times Sep 29, 2019 4 minutes

    HONG KONG - As China's Communist Party prepares for its 70th anniversary of rule on Oct. 1, protesters in Hong Kong stepped on, and in some cases stomped on, printed images of Chinese President Xi Jinping's face as they streamed up the stairs of a subway station Sunday to attend a pro-democracy rally.

    "SAY NO TO CHINAZI," read a silhouetted slogan projected onto the Chinese military's building in the semiautonomous Chinese territory. The word is a newly popular term in Hong Kong's protest movement: China + Nazi, a derogatory framing of Beijing's governance.

    Asofficials in Beijing seek to ward off dissent and mobilize the nation to sing

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