Ping!
The important question that is never answered in these articles about Chinese protests is "what is the protest about?" If these guys only want the government to reduce the price of rice, then these protests are not all that significant.
Thanks, I was going to ask if this story had been confirmed by other media sources because frankly, I just don't believe anything that comes out of the Epoch Times.
It's like reading the People's Daily but from the other end of the spectrum.
Of course, if they are planning to take Taiwan soon, then they may reckon on nationalism as a quick fix, but I don't think that it will suffice as a cure.
Why does this quote make me think of Hillary Clinton?
What is the Epoch Times? I see from the link that it's Korean. Why would it be untrustworthy about China?
I had an interesting discussion a few weeks back with an Army Officer who is a China FAO (Foreign Area Officer). He's of the opinion that China may well face a disintegration along the lines of the USSR. They have many minority groups in far flung places who don't like being ruled from Peking.
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Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs indirectly confirmed Anhui Chizhou has ten thousand person of rebellions Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Liu Chiench'ao 28 indirectly to confirm Anhui Chizhou has ten thousand person of rebellions. He said that, the Chinese government can properly process based on the correlation law. Holds in 28 afternoons reporter at the meeting, the foreign media inquired Liu Chiench'ao the related report, Liu Chiench'ao as soon as started to use a pretext, regarding the Anhui Chizhou matter certainly was not very clear, suggestion media to News Office of the State Council public office inquiry. But he afterwards said the expression that, "in brief, the related question already occurred, the Chinese government could defer to the law to carry on properly processing." The Hong Kong Ming Daily 28 reports, mainland China Anhui Chizhou has the rare large-scale populace violence, surpasses the up to ten thousand people to take to the streets hits, pounds, snatches, the fever, flushes the local police station, at least burns down three police vehicles, a town center between large-scale supermarket is plundered one is spatial. The report pointed out that, the event cause is a 26 middle-school student and personal hospital chief has the transportation dispute to injure by the person, the hereafter spreads the middle-school student to injury the heavy death, causes the large quantities of angry populace to gather in front of the local police station gate to protest, some person of affiliations machine disturb, the scene loses control. The event shocks the Anhui Province government, the authority urgently assigns over a thousand armed polices to put down a rebellion to Chizhou, the tumultuous nearly ten hours, Chizhou partial areas 27 still declared martial law. In the report said that, the Chizhou market condition 27 atmosphere extremely were still intense. The local resident disclosed that, nine Chinese road local police station and east around the East China supermarket all is an armed police, creates a disturbance the scene to clean up, the local police station already changed beyond all recognition, the public security cleaned up from house to house three does not have, also was does not have the identification card, does not have the resident certificate and the non- work identification public figure.
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It's from Radio Taiwan link is
http://www.cbs.org.tw/big5/CbsRealNews/Detail.aspx?news_id=39449
Sounds to me like the people are just waiting for anything that will allow them to riot. The thing that ought to worry the Chinese authorities is that the crowd appears to me more middle class.