Sunday, February 20, 2011

China aborts with several attempts at protests decisin

There may not be much interest among China's population by copying the riots that live the Arab world, but the Beijing government does not want any risk of infection. Authorities decisively aborted attempts at two separate protests in Beijing and Shanghai, apparently inspired by the live demonstrations that the Middle East for weeks.

The call to follow the "Jasmine Revolution", in reference to the riots in Tunisia, was conducted through a website abroad. Police arrested at least three people in Beijing, the Wangfujing Street, one of the most commercial of the capital, while dozens of people watched curious wondering what happened.

Several hundred uniformed policemen and plainclothes were concentrated in the area, scattered and filmed people who were at the scene, reports France Presse. In Shanghai, the police took three twenties. The call, released Saturday by the U.S. website Boxun urged to protest in Beijing, Shanghai and other 11 cities, but only in the first two were no signs of protests.

Boxun, which is blocked in China, urged the demonstrators to shout phrases like "We want food," "We want jobs," "We want housing," "We want justice," "Long live freedom" and "Long live democracy ". About 100 activists and lawyers "disappeared" were detained or put under house arrest throughout the country before the start of potential protests, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong.

The search for the words in the search Jasmine Revolution Baidu and short messaging site on the Internet (the product) t. sina gave no results. Is unlikely to inspire Arab revolutions in China major events that threaten the one-party rule of the Chinese Communist Party. Although the country accuses enormous social differences, corruption is rampant and many members of the intellectual elite defend democracy, the vast majority of Chinese do not feel the anger that has erupted in the Arab world.

For several reasons: today live better than it was 100, 20 or 10 years and think that their conditions will improve, and despite the many social conflicts, unemployment, illegal expropriations, labor abuses, and ethnic-Tibet, Xinjiang, China enjoys stability, at least on the surface-an important factor in a country that has suffered a great deal of violence and riots in recent history.

This is coupled by the fact that the population is more concerned with making money than to achieve some political freedoms, and the resurgence of national pride, thanks to the international promotion of the country by the hand of economic progress, after a history of foreign domination.

To make matters worse, the Chinese government has more experience and more controls that steely Tunisia and Egypt both the Internet and many other aspects of society.

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