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Police confront demonstratos and media members after internet social networks called to join a "Jasmine Revolution" protest in front of the Peace Cinema in Shanghai and a McDonalds resturant Beijing on February 20, 2011.Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "

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. Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Saturday for stricter government management of the Internet while calls for gatherings inspired by uprisings in the Middle East spread on Chinese websites abroad. Police dispersed scores of people who gathered in central Beijing and Shanghai on Sunday after calls spread online across China urging pro-democracy gatherings inspired by protest rallies across the Middle East.

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People take part in the 10-km race of the Hong Kong marathon February 20, 2011. More than 65,000 people took part in the 10-km, half-marathon and marathon races in the territory on Sunday, organisers said.

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Lawmaker and activist Leung Kwok-hung ((C)top photo) shouts slogans with others during a "Jasmine Revolution" protest outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong February 20, 2011. Government radio reported that mainland authorities have detained a number of activists as they react to messages spread through internet social networks calling for gatherings across China on Sunday to demand sweeping democratic reforms inspired by the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East.

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Policemen try to stop protesters from throwing joss paper during a "Jasmine Revolution" protest outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong February 20, 2011. Government radio reported that mainland authorities have detained a number of activists as they react to messages spread through internet social networks calling for gatherings across China on Sunday to demand sweeping democratic reforms inspired by the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East.

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Policemen display weapons to a group of school children during a further education and careers fair in Hong Kong on February 18, 2011. More than 700 exhibitors from 17 countries and regions will take part in the event.

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An employee of a gas station adjusts the price tag of gasoline in Beijing Feb. 20, 2011. China raised the prices of gasoline and diesel by 350 yuan (about 53.2 U.S. dollars) per tonne beginning Sunday, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced Saturday night. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

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Hong Kong media prepares for the press conference held on the Blue Ridge ship on February 19, 2010. The USS Blue Ridge, flagship for the Commander of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, started its five-day port visit in Hong Kong on Saturday. Carrying more than 1,400 crews on board, the 194-meter Blue Ridge, with a tonnage of over 19,000 tons, has been in service for about 40 years. [Xinhua]

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BEIJING, Feb.18 (Xinhuanet) -- A 37-year-old man is recovering at the People's Hospital of Yuxi, Yunnan Province after a surgery last Saturday to remove a blade that had spent four years in his head.

The strange discovery astonished doctors of Yuanjiang County Hospital, as well as patient Li Fu's family, after an X-ray examination on January 24, when Li, puzzled by his bad breath and headaches, went there for examination. Li then turned to the People's Hospital for further diagnosis.

"A miracle of miracles: A knife pierced his skull and stayed in the nerve and vascular intensive area," said neurosurgeon Luo Zhiwei of the People's Hospital. The blade entered through his right lower jaw, went past his tongue, nasopharynx and muscles and came to a rest with the tip almost touching his brain.

Doctors carried out a four-hour operation from 8:30 am to take out the 10-centimeter-long, 1.8-centimeter-wide and 0.24-centimeter-thick blade.

And the cause? Li Fu's little brother remembered a robbery case four years ago, when Li was stabbed in his right lower jaw. At the local hospital, doctors debriefed him, sutured his wound and injected anti-inflammatory needles. Police later caught the robber but found only a shank without a blade.

"The wound healed well, so he did not accept further examinations. We never thought the blade was left in his head."

(Source: Global Times)

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Bltizo said:

I suppose an annual growth rate of ~9% isn't good enough for them... "We want cars, we want holidays, we want luxury goods" should be a better slogan... jeez.
I wonder how long it will take for this to be spun and distributed by mass western media as your monthly chinese human rights/dissident report... I give it 24 hours from now?

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jantxv said:

What a harsh response blizzy. The Chinese leadership is very concerned with unequal wealth distribution and these mini-protests, if even that, serve a function that the State hears clearly. Given the unquestioned accelerating growth of the Chinese economy, it is doubtless that the State will increase the tax rates of some of the fat cats who are responsible for creating the wealth inequality in the first place. If the new rich are reluctant to donate a portion of their wealth to the less lucky for the sake of charity, the State's responsibility for social harmony will always error on the side of the less fortunate, as it always had. Thank goodness those "protesters" were rescued by the police before emotions lead to circumstances everyone would have regretted.

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Bltizo said:

I suppose an annual growth rate of ~9% isn't good enough for them... "We want cars, we want holidays, we want luxury goods" should be a better slogan... jeez.
I wonder how long it will take for this to be spun and distributed by mass western media as your monthly chinese human rights/dissident report... I give it 24 hours from now?

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bladerunner said:

Then why react in the manner they do, especially when they portray the numbers as being insignificant.
"More grist to the mill" as far as the Western Press are concerned when it comes to criticising the CCP.

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The Revolution That Wasn’t
February 20, 2011
By C. Custer
Late last night, I noticed that calls for large protests in several major Chinese cities were circulating on Twitter. Using the hashtag #cn220, users were reposting information from the overseas Chinese website Boxun, where an anonymous user had called for a Chinese “Jasmine Revolution.” This morning, those reports were mixed with reports that police and the military had already begun to form up in the locations designated for protest around the country. Naturally, I decided it would be a good idea to grab a camera and head to the Wangfujing area, where Beijing’s protest was supposed to happen.

I should note that I didn’t actually expect to find much. This news was being passed around almost exclusively on websites blocked in China, and many of the people making tweets seemed to be making them from outside China. There were people announcing that China’s jasmine revolution had begun at 11 in the morning, three hours before the protests were even supposed to start. But very few Chinese people had even heard about it, and many of the Chinese twitter users I follow said they had already been threatened, detained, or otherwise instructed not to go by police or Party authorities.

When we arrived, around 1:40, there was already a small group of people clustered around the entrance to McDonalds, the area designated online as the center of the protest. Most of them were carrying expensive photo or video cameras, and it was clear that a good percentage of the crowd was journalists.

I met up with a couple foreign correspondents I happen to know who had arrived slightly before me. We joked for a little whole about the “revolutionary” atmosphere, or lack thereof, and the ridiculousness of the growing crowd of people, photographing itself. Of course, we were also participants.

A little after 2pm, the crowd reached its largest, perhaps two or three hundred people, although there were people coming and leaving all the time because Wangfujing is naturally a fairly busy place. Aside from one moment, where we could see a bouquet of flowers fly above the heads of the center of the crowd–perhaps they were jasmine flowers?–I saw nothing at any point that could be considered protesting. No one shouted slogans, no one held signs, it was just a group of people standing around photographing each other.

Of course, the crowd drew an increasingly heavy police presence, and they herded people around the area for more than an hour before managing to more or less clear the place out. At one point, they drove everyone from in front of the McDonalds, so the crowd moved along the building’s side, blocking the road there, at which point the police herded everyone back in front of the McDonalds.

For the most part, the police showed surprising restraint, at least for Chinese cops. I saw no incidents of violence, although I did overhear an argument between a citizen and a police officer who had confiscated the man’s cell phone, and I did personally get into a shouting match with a police officer who shoved me. There were other reports of roughhousing, but nothing more than a bit of shoving and pushing.

After an hour or so, we left. There were still some people hanging around, but it was clear that everyone was waiting to see what would happen and no one was going to actually do anything. Even the police were getting bored. As we left, we passed a large group of them and overheard their commander say “Back to normal!” As we walked down the stairs and into the subway station, they piled into their vans and began to drive away.

It’s clear that if change will come to China, it will come from within. A revolution cannot be hoped or tweeted into existence by overseas Chinese, or overzealous Twitter fans drunk off their so-called victories in North Africa.

As a side note, I continue to marvel at the Beijing police’s ability to take nothing and turn it into an incident. Had they not come out in such large numbers and not tried to force people to leave, I suspect this would have been an even smaller “protest”.

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