Some are comparing Peng Lifa, the man behind the banners, to the 'Tank Man' of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
The twice-decade Chinese Communist Party leadership meeting begins Sunday
Residents in Xiangtang Village were told their properties were illegally built, and they had seven days to pack their belongings and move out as their homes would be demolished.
Policy disagreements are overshadowing areas of engagements such as on bilateral trade and North Korea's nuclear program.
Yu Wensheng was detained in January 2018, hours after he provided journalists with a letter calling for constitutional reform.
A political blogger was sentenced, and a veteran rights activist who criticized Beijing's COVID-19 response was arrested.
Wang was one of more than 200 lawyers and activists detained in a notorious crackdown on Chinese civil rights lawyers starting in July 2015.
Two members of the group Tiananmen Mothers speak to VOA of the death of a child and a husband.
Sun Wenguang, 84, told the friends that after he was detained on August 1, he was moved to several locations including Yanzi Mountain Villa at Jinan Military Region, a military-linked hotel and reception center in Jinan, eastern China, his hometown.
