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2005-08-18 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve 2005-08-18 09:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The government, fearful as ever of any instability getting out of control...

That is the problem, the peasents are restless and tired of getting f00ked while the city dwellers get rich. Good old fashioned class struggle, kinda like what China had back in the 40s, huh?

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-18 10:10|| 2005-08-18 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 They include new rules on complaining to the authorities - citizens are now banned from petitioning central government directly.

That is almost the entire problem right there. The people generally *like* the central government, but they *hate* their local authorities. Many of the protests are complaining *to* the central government that the local authorities are *ignoring* the central government decrees.

So this is essentially people on the bottom of the chain-of-command complaining to the big boss that the chain-of-command is disobeying him, and the big boss's response is to tell them to take it up with the chain-of-command.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-18 14:10|| 2005-08-18 14:10|| Front Page Top

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