“The nature of the Communist Party is anti-humanity and anti-human. It will bring endless disaster to China.”
This is the message, premised on an expectation of historical continuity, of one of two anti-CCP banners unfurled in Beijing’s Chaoyang district after the Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenum in October 2025. The protest is only now becoming more generally known as footage posted on March 17 on the social-media platform X makes the rounds (Vision Times, March 22, 2026).
The other [banner] calls for political change, including the legalization of opposition parties, free political competition, and free elections, as well as the establishment of a system based on freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law.
The man is also seen using a loudspeaker to address people gathered below, though the audio is unclear. Several onlookers appear to be watching and recording the scene on their phones. A separate image shows individuals removing the banners shortly afterward.
Online users identified the location as a commercial building in the Taikoo Li South district in Sanlitun, a popular shopping and nightlife area in Beijing’s Chaoyang district. The site includes venues such as Casa Bacardi and the Shan Ju Man Long restaurant.
The protest is believed to have taken place on Oct. 25, 2025, two days after the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenum that year. Another X user, posting under the name “Yesterday,” shared the same video on March 19 and said the protester has not been heard from since….
Since the Sitong Bridge protest [in October 2022, in which Peng Lifa hung banners calling for political reform and criticizing CCP leaders], similar incidents have surfaced intermittently across China, often appearing first on overseas platforms due to domestic censorship.
Peng, author of the 2022 protest, was detained by police and eventually sentenced to nine years in prison on such serviceably nebulous charges as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
In August 2025, a man named Qi Hong used projection equipment to cast a rotating image of protest messages on a building near Chongqing University. He had set things up so that he could trigger the display from a safe distance—in London.
Nobody seems to know anything about the man responsible for the October 2025 protest banners or whether he got caught. “Online reactions have centered on concern for the individual’s safety.”
