MaxedOutMama
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Tran Sient on Chinese Riots
Tran Sient asks "Could Unrest In China Lead To War?" He also includes a reference to widespread riots in 2003 and closes:
Since a Communist Party backed magazine published this, I suspect the number is higher. I was not aware that the internal unrest facing China was this bad. It certainly does add another element into the China situation that does not bode well for peace in Asia.This Reuters report cites members of the Chinese administration who seem concerned:
In the latest riot on Sunday, in the poor eastern province of Anhui, armed police who tried to quell the disturbance were driven back by rocks and firecrackers. Later, power to the police station was cut and fireworks thrown inside.Here is another story in Epoch Times about the riots this week, which also cites a report in the NY Times saying that there were over sixty thousand incidents of unrest in China in 2004. The story cites comments in chatrooms:
Protests are becoming increasingly common in China, fuelled by corruption and a growing gap between rich and poor, but such brazen attacks on authority are bound to worry a leadership bent on maintaining stability in the vast country of 1.3 billion.
In another riot in the western municipality of Chongqing last October, thousands took to the streets burning police cars and looting government buildings after a man passed himself off as an official during a quarrel between residents, enraging bystanders with the attempted abuse of power.
“People are always ‘unidentified bad persons.’ Marches are always ‘illegal assemblies.’ Troubles are always created by ‘persons with ulterior motives.’ The governing authorities are always ‘glorious and correct.’ ”Boxun News Network carried a story in April about the Chinese National Party being revived. I read about all of this and wonder what the effect of a flu pandemic might be on China, and I don't know.
“In this oppressive society, there are rarely courageous revolutionary heroes. In the end, who is always hiding the truth or even manipulating the truth?”
“Mobs are created by tyranny.”
“Dictatorship is just like a person sitting on the volcano, it may have been dozens of years, but when it erupts, it will eliminate all the sin and evil on this planet, and give everyone justice!”
