Meaning of white terror | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any one of several specific white terrors in history.
2. Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
   countable, uncountable
3. The erosion of democratic freedoms under Chinese rule.
   Hong-Kong, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“I looked out the window of the former Grand Hotel de Pekin and thought of the days before World War II when I waltzed there with assorted Nazi, fascist and Scandinavian diplomats. On the street the slow‐moving bicycles moved silently where once I listened to the shuffling pad‐pad of camels bringing coal from Mentoukou. On these streets on Dec. 9, 1935, desperate Peking students had declared war on all kinds of fascism (so had I) and marched to break the “white terror,” as they called it.”

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