Posted on 02/22/2021 7:59:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As people in northeastern China grow increasingly dissatisfied with the central government’s neglect of the region’s economic development, authorities are worried that mass protests could soon break out, according to an insider.
The insider, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely, formerly worked for a senior official at the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD). The agency is in charge of persuading Chinese people domestic and abroad to agree with the Party’s policies and maintain the Party’s rule.
While the insider caught up with his former superior during Lunar New Year, the latter revealed the central government’s chief concerns.
“Both the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the United Front Work Department (UFWD) is monitoring the enormous amount of resentment that northeasterners have toward the central government. They [authorities] are working hard to censor the public opinions” and prevent tensions from escalating, the insider said. The CAC is China’s chief internet censorship authority.
Northeastern China is made up of three provinces: Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. About 40 years ago, the region contributed about 14 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But that figure has dropped to five percent in 2020.
Roughly 107.9 million people live in the region, or about 8 percent of the country’s total population.
But the population is declining, as the local birth rate has plummeted (0.61 percent in 2019) and hundreds of thousands relocate to other regions for better economic opportunities.
“The Chinese government is worried that northeastern China will follow Tibet and Xinjiang and seek independence,” the insider said. “This is one of the biggest concerns that the regime has right now.” For centuries, Tibet and Xinjiang were self-governed regions under the Chinese empire. After the Party invaded those areas, the Chinese regime subjected the local population to brutal suppression,
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They should just murder another 80 million people...
This region could come up with a new dish: Chairman Xi’s long pork.....made with real Chairman Xi!
China is going the way of Japan (without the wealth) rather than some African kleptocracy
The article correctly points out, China’s birth rate has been low, and is now crashing even lower. Its society is denominated by old people. The young, like Japan, see very high property costs, and face massive debt if they join the property-marriage game - so they don’t.
As only-children, who grew up in rising wealth and stability, they won’t rebel on the streets. They will just stay home, get fat, and play video games on their cell phones.
Got in before me.
Chinese Communists “eliminate problems” while we in the West attempt to solve problems. Except for organized crime and the Clinton Crime family. People disappear and difficulties go with them. No witnesses. Tidy.
The problem with China is, well, communism.
The CCP and the Han - same thing in practical terms.
Or they’ll try and get ‘’student visas’’ and come here. Biden will let them in. He has to. The Chinks have been lining his pockets for years. He owes them.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the two countries.
Not a problem for the ChiCom regime. A few hundred thousand killed? No skin off their noses! Look at what they did in 1989 in Tiananmen Square! Look at the hundreds, perhaps thousands who had their DOORS WELDED SHUT and either suffocated or starved to death. They were ‘criminals’. Their crime? Having the CCP-Coronavirus!
A few million killed? Just making room for the more compliant ChiCom proles. Fewer mouths to feed, more food for the remainder.
Is the article about NE China, or the NE area of China’s Vassal State, the United States of America?
A regime like Communist China would not blink an eye at releasing a virus into the general population, murdering tens of millions of its own citizens in the process, or millions of people in other countries if they thought it would achieve a political end.
A political end such as removing a hated President from office, or destroying an economy that was causing problems for its own economy.
They murdered tens or hundreds of millions of their own citizens for purely political ends. To think they would not do the same for political, economic, or even purely retributive means is pure naivete.
Print money and give everyone 2000 yuan/month.
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