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It would depend on a lot of things.

They really are sensitive to public opinion to a point and in certain contexts and when it involves a significant percentage of the public/grass roots etc.

Li Peng is STILL one of the most hated men in China.

In some respects, the Chinese care little about anything but themselves and their nuclear family and sometimes some parts of their extended family and to put on a front at New Years that the extended family is one harmonious group of warm and fuzzy people.

HOWEVER, in other respects, in certain contexts and contingencies, they are a boiling cauldron underneath the surface and it wouldn't take much to have a mass demonstration spring up and flash into a forest fire.

The leaders would NOT want to trigger undue demonstration and public outcry.

Therefore, they'd want to minimize the deaths and maximize the intimidation.

I doubt they'd want many deaths--especially near to the incident in time or easily tracable to the incident over the next 6-12 months.

Re your post #124

You are correct there

The Chinese Govt would be reluctant to push their luck too far, by having another Tien-An-Men type of incident

Another such tragedy may finally cost them to lose their "MANDATE OF HEAVEN"

HOWEVER, in other respects, in certain contexts and contingencies, they are a boiling cauldron underneath the surface and it wouldn't take much to have a mass demonstration spring up and flash into a forest fire.

I agree! Now satellites are beaming America to China for them to see how life may be lived and the tv's lack of morals going into their subconscious minds.

With that supposed lack of female companionship, and seeing how to get the ladies with the $$$$s, the youth may be mobilized into revolution--or coming our way to get our stuff? They can raise a 200 million-man army according to our State Dept., I believe...