Chinese Citizens REVOLT in Wukan!!

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Joshluot-34-85

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I must respect your idealism, but politics are just too dirty these days. If you think U.S. politicians are corrupt, you should really visit China, India, or Russia.
 
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Joshluot-34-85 said:
I must respect your idealism, but politics are just too dirty these days. If you think U.S. politicians are corrupt, you should really visit China, India, or Russia.
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Really? So how many of the CCP government members are working desperately on their austerity problems? Don't even make me bring up about the US Congressional Super Committee. Your flat incoherent thinking displays your ignorance about history and the world.
 
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jantxv

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Interesting that yet another region is erupting in defiance of the powers that be, this time in Haimen, a much bigger city of at least 100,000 people with at least 30,000 actually protesting. That's a third of the population!! Quite stunning really.

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times

December 20, 2011, 3:34 p.m.
Reporting from Shenzhen, China—
Residents revolted Tuesday against development plans in yet another town in Guangdong province, redoubling the challenge to the Communist Party in China's most affluent and open-minded region.

The newest uprising involved as many as 30,000 people protesting plans for a coal-fired power plant in the southern seaside town of Haimen. Residents stormed local government offices and blocked a busy highway that runs from the manufacturing hub of Shenzhen to the city of Shantou.

Although organizers denied there was any copycat effect from protests in Wukan, a village 70 miles away where residents booted out local government two weeks ago, the similarities were striking enough to be unnerving to a central government that values stability above all.

Protesters say riot police reacted harshly to the Haimen uprising, beating demonstrators and firing tear gas into the crowd. There were unconfirmed reports that a 15-year-old boy had been killed and dozens of people badly beaten.
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Finally, an article that sheds more light than heat!

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Wukan denies land protest aims at revolt

The villagers also called for a transparent election to select a village committee to replace the officials who fled. Party secretary Xue Chang has held his post, the most senior in the village, for more than four decades. Xue and vice secretary Chen Shuiyi, who were removed from their positions on December 12, have been put under shuanggui - a form of detention that requires suspects to make themselves available to investigators at a specific time and place, according to the mainland media.
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The villagers have been given 3,300,000 yuan (US$520,000) compensation for the 400 hectares of farmland, although it is worth more than 1 billion yuan, according to Cai.
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It also appears that the Police blockade is to prevent the residents from carrying through the threat to march in protest into the county Capital Shenwei.

Overall though it seems to reflect my original suspicion that this was little more than a family squabble that has got out of hand.
 
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I do not understand why this thread is allowed when it is so obviously political, while other political topics are not. If the reason for not allowing politics is indeed to avoid being blocked by the great firewall, then this isn't helping. If the reason is something else, maybe choosing topics of conversation, this needs to be brought into the open in a more clear manner.
 
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Put it this way. I was born in China, and I saw officials receiving bribes from their rich businessmen for land development and infrastructure projects. If you want to open a business and do something big, you need to have "relationship" in the government. These "relationships" coup be friends or relatives, and in order to maintain these "relationships," you gives bribed in forms of gifts during important holidays. You call them "personal" gifts, but in fact inside the gift boxes could be cash, jewelry, Channel, Rolex, etc. As soon as you maintain these "relationships" in the government, your company would most likely be the one be granted important construction projects, even if your construction quality is literally unsafe.
 
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