Mid-Week Links: Street protest movement, Donnie Does (Fake Christmas), and Christmas parties for you Beijingers

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Street movement. “Wang [Aizhong] took to the streets after his blog kept getting deleted from the Internet, joining an ad-hoc alliance of demonstrators who call themselves the Southern Street Movement. The dozen or so loosely allied protesters is taking causes that draw attention on the Internet — such as demanding democracy and free speech — to public spaces, something that can be deemed illegal under Communist Party rule. Doing so, they argue, is a more effective way to bring about change.” (Bloomberg)

Christmas meeting cancelled. “Lawyers and Christian churchgoers said they were blocked from meeting in a central Chinese county Monday to commemorate Christmas and draw attention to the detention of a pastor and his aides. // The canceled meeting at the church in Henan province’s Nanle county came during a monthlong crackdown on the church over a land dispute that pits its popular preacher against the county government.” (AP)

Tunnel! “Border authorities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen have discovered a 40-metre long underground tunnel linking the two cities. The tunnel was dug with the utmost sophistication and would have cost an estimated 3 million RMB. The owner of the building in Shenzhen from which the tunnel began is in police custody, iFeng News reports.” (The Nanfang)

One-child policy. “Changes to China’s strict one-child policy, which will allow more parents to have a second child, will begin to roll out early next year, state media said.” (Reuters)

A man dances at the opening ceremony of the snow and ice festival in the Golden Horde grassland in the Inner Mongoli… pic.twitter.com/p4OO1ge80s

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 24, 2013

Yet another reason to chuckle at the whining and whimpers of Tier-1 city expats #livingthesoftlife http://t.co/QoZEJytkh7

— tbCh (@blackChinahand) December 24, 2013

Lavishly wrapped apples as Christmas presents in China. This Global Times piece tells you why: http://t.co/1lULeHCEXo pic.twitter.com/7OtjlA5LSA

— Helen Gao (@Yuxin_Gao) December 24, 2013

It's Christmas. Nobel Peace Prize winner #LiuXiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison on X'mas four years ago. pic.twitter.com/fVNXlxG4W0

— Venus Wu (@wu_venus) December 25, 2013