PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Several hundreds of Chinese students at the University of Pennsylvania held a candlelight vigil to mourn those who lost their lives in the Urumqi fire in Xinjiang on Tuesday night, and support the demonstrations in China calling for an end to COVID-19 lockdowns.
At 7 p.m., Chinese students gathered around the LOVE Sculpture on Penn’s campus. Most wore masks, likely to protect their identity, and some held signs like, “Give me freedom or give me death.” One held a big Shanghai road sign reading “Urumqi Middle Road,” in support of the Xinjiang protests.
Some students took the lead and others followed shouting over and over again: “Reject the communist party,” “Communist party step down,” “Xi Jinping step down.”…