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The British Museum only actually exhibits 1% of what it's got.

Our correspondent looks for plans to change that. First up though, though.

So in November,

So in November 2022, discontent was brewing in China.

People had endured two years of pandemic restrictions

and there'd been these huge lockdowns in giant cities where millions of people were kept home.

Rosie Bloor is an international China correspondent for the economist.

There was a particular incident of fire in an apartment building in a room chingang which provoked widespread protests across the country

more than anything anyone had seen in decades.

These were not huge protests but they were in lots of places and people came out onto the streets with white squares of paper to represent the idea that they just couldn't speak.

And for a lot of people the way they tracked what was happening

was by following a particular account on Twitter

now X where one person was reposting videos and photos of protests happening back in his home country.

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