From the Washington Post:
Police and security officials displayed a massive show of force here and in other Chinese cities Sunday, trying to snuff out any hint of protests modeled on the uprisings in the Middle East. In Shanghai, several hundred people trying to gather were dispersed with a water truck…
As China’s government is really no more than a criminal conspiracy – think of them as a Mafia which has got control of a nuclear-armed nation – they are being very swift in cracking down on the ripples of dissent flowing in from the rest of the global revolution. The grievances of the Chinese people revolve around economic matters, for the most part, but those are swiftly turning political…the reason why, after all, there is economic stress in China is because of the corrupt political system.
I know we’ve all been told by just about every bankster and bureaucrat out there that China is experiencing massive economic growth, but that is just so much utter BS. What has happened in China is that China’s gangster rulers have given out licenses to steel on the part of some Chinese (and some non-Chinese, too…especially western banks which are willing to sink a lot of money in to China). This has allow an appearance of growth which masks the continued, grinding poverty of most Chinese…and the Chinese are getting rather angry about it (you would, too, if your ancestral farm was seized in order to make a golf course for rich people to play on).
We’ll see how well the thugs who run China manage this. My bet is that they will maintain control until the Chinese economy completely collapses (it is inevitable – they are nothing but a mountain of fake money and bad debt). But, I could be wrong – and, indeed, I hope I am.