Radio Free Asia reported (March 31) that Zhang Wenbin, a university student in Shandong Province due to graduate this academic year and who described himself as "once a little pink" supporter of the CCP, posted a video to social media calling on President Xi Jinping to step down. He said “Since I scaled the Great Firewall, I gradually came to the realization that the Chinese Communist Party has extended its dragon claws into every corner of the world, including collective farming [1950s], the Cultural Revolution [1966-1976], the Great Famine [1958-1961], the One-Child Policy, the Tiananmen massacre [1989], as well as the persecution of the Falun Gong [spiritual movement], and the peoples of Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang. And yet everyone continues to turn a blind eye, singing the party's praises. I just can't bear it. When I look at the courage with which Hong Kong and Taiwan stand up to the Communist Party, I want my own voice to be heard". He added "I call on you all to look upon the true colors of the Communist Party, and stand together to bring down this wall. Xi Jinping, you can leave now. So can the Communist Party". Sources said he had been taken in for questioning by local police, on suspicion of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble."
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