[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Fish out of Water]

index bump

[John H K]

And China's positive economic growth stats may be as cooked as Enron's books.

I question whether China is in much better shape than the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe five years before the collapse of either.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

This dislocation of hundreds of millions of surplus labors will compel Chinese regime to enter foreign adventure such as political and military attacks of Taiwan or incursion into India to help Pakistan from Indian wrath. It can even stage terrorist bombing of Beijing landmarks. Both domestic and foreign enemies come in handy when a regime is in trouble. If any of these backfires, it could be the end of Chinese regime. China has a history of massive violent peasant rebellions. Millions of men, who have nothing to lose, rampaged countryside like locust clouds. Chinese regime will be busy for at least several years. If China makes any moves in international arena during this period, the domestic factor has to be taken into account to understand their intention as well as international relations.

[CIBvet]

I can't believe these ChiCom peasants have the audacity to want a union ... another example of greedy, lazy workers!!

[Joe Boucher]

Always pleasent to see unrest in the peoples worker paradise. Hopefully it gets much much worse over there before it gets better.

[Rick_Hunter]

When I look at China's current leaders, I'm reminded of the last sentence in George Orwell's Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

[Frohickey]

Silently, illegally, like xiagang in nearby Daqing and Liaoyang, Fushun's former coal, cement, steel, and petrochemical factory employees marched to government offices, braving police and demanding living allowances they say stopped months ago. Late last week, Fushun officials dispersed the crowd by distributing about $9 to each protester.

What does China think it is? A democracy? Only in a democracy are you supposed to bribe your people with other people's money. China should have given each protester 2 cents worth of bullet. [end_sarcasm]

Paging Jesse Jackson. Paging Al Sharpton. Excellent idea here to encourage reparations for decendants of blacks. Too bad none of the people that are parties to slavery are alive today. But their DNA lives on!!!

[Bonaparte]

"In the Mao era, people had security."

Sixty-five million dead civilians, and he calls it "security."