2011-06-15

The Australian sums of the current protest wave in China

Beijing battling protest fires on all fronts

Western media likes to hype the instability as reflecting poorly on the Communist party, but this is just the manifestation of negative social mood. There is no organized movement here, it's much less organized than Greece and other European protests, for instance, where national government policy is at issue.
A Monday editorial in the Global Times, a tabloid linked to the Communist Party, warned against trying to connect the recent incidents of unrest and draw conclusions about China's social stability. "China is not a nation where public anger collectively seeks to topple the existing order. It is time to debunk this ludicrous lie," it said.

It is ludicrous, but there's probably more public anger on the way...

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