Go! Go! Tuesday
(allez, allez, le mardi)
SECTION I: Chinese Riots
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China vs. Japan
My commentary in response to the anti-Japan riots in China in April.
Friday, May 13, 2005
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Now back to the consistent rule of the Japanese. What seems to have created the positive image of the Japanese in this regard is the contrast of the negative by the Chinese. There is an incident that occurred in 1947, known as the 2/28 Massacre (the date of its occurence). Basically, the government of mainland China got mad at the Taiwanese and killed 18,000 to 28,000 people, according to one source I read. This day is still remembered in Taiwan with a holiday, and the event is anchored deep in their psyche. The killing was viewed as totally unnecessary. The government was considered oppressive and corrupt, and as one Taiwanese told me, "...unpredictable. You knew where you stood with the Japanese occupiers, but the Chinese, you never knew where you stood. They executed people at random."
http://homepage.mac.com/catservants/iblog/C1532646353/E20050703165051/index.html
Feb 12, 2009
Riots 'won't lead to rebellion'
By Tracy Quek, China Correspondent
Social unrest goes against President Hu Jintao's political mantra of a 'harmonious society' and is seen by the ruling Chinese Communist Party as the biggest challenge to its rule.
China's Public Security Ministry reported 87,000 mass incidents in 2005, up 6.6 per cent over the number in 2004, and 50 per cent over the 2003 figure. The ministry has not released the latest figures.
According to Dr Wang's presentation yesterday, which he said was based on official statistics, there were at least 10,000 mass incidents recorded in 1993. The number ballooned to more than 60,000 in 2005. Two years later, it exceeded 80,000.
Asked if he had an estimate for the number of mass incidents last year, Dr Wang said a study had been done, but he would say only that the number was 'higher than that in 2007, but the increase was not as big as the rise between 2005 and 2007'.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_337288.html
Crime Up 15% in CCP China, Riots Increase as Well.
Posted in the China Forum
12/22/2009 13:12
CHINA
Academy of Social Sciences: increase of mass revolts and crime in China
The "mass incidents" are caused by the growing difference between rich and poor, and abuse of power by government representatives. In the first 10 months of 2009 criminal cases increased by 15% compared to last year. The social concerns are a risk to the survival of the Communist Party.
The report cites six examples of popular revolts, from the taxi strike in Chongqing and elsewhere, to those in central China, due to the suspicious deaths, presented by the police as a suicide (see the 22/06/2009 " Clashes between police and people who can't take it any more become daily occurrence).
The report does not include the revolts of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, in July last year, with 200 deaths and thousands of arrests.
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/china/TBFLOK54VKREB8IPG
Uighur leader says 10,000 killed or detained in China unrest
Nearly 10,000 Uighurs were detained or killed earlier this month in ethnic unrest in the Chinese city of Urumqi, the group's exiled leader said yesterday.
By Our Foreign Staff
Published: 6:25PM BST 29 Jul 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5933478/Uighur-leader-says-10000-killed-or-detained-in-China-unrest.html
China riots: 140 killed and 816 injured
At least 140 people have been killed in rioting in the capital of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Published: 9:20AM BST 06 Jul 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5755782/China-riots-140-killed-and-816-injured.html
China fears riots will spread as boom goes sourToday millions will leave the cities to return to their rural family homes for the new year celebrations. But this year Beijing hopes the newly jobless revellers will stay there - to prevent a fresh wave of unrest in the cities
Tania Branigan in Dongguan The Observer, Sunday 25 January 2009
That spirit has pervaded a spate of recent disturbances in Dongguan: protests outside government offices by unpaid workers; clashes with police as plants shut down. "Mass incidents", as officials describe them, have been on the rise for years. According to the Ministry of Public Security, there were 10,000 across China in 1994. By 2005, that had risen to 87,000. Experts believe the numbers have increased again, not least because the government has stopped publicising them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/25/china-globaleconomy
Chinese state steel workers beat private firm boss to death
• Staff rioted over planned buyout of company
• Violence said to be biggest disturbance for a year
Tania Branigan in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 July 2009 18.57 BST
Thousands of angry Chinese steel workers clashed with police and beat to death an executive of the firm trying to take over their company, a Hong Kong-based human rights organisation has said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/26/china-steel-workers-riot
updated 3/24/2008 2:16:06 PM ET 2008-03-24T18:16:06
BEIJING — One policeman was killed and several others injured in riots Monday in western Sichuan province, China’s state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency gave no other details regarding the riot.
Xinhua also said that 381 people involved in protests in another Sichuan county, Aba, had surrendered to police, according to local authorities.
The Communist leadership has faced the biggest challenge to its rule in the Himalayan area in nearly two decades after protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa exploded into violence on March 14, sparking sympathy protests in the neighboring provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai.
Protests also have spread to Nepal and India.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23780660
2010 Suzhou workers riot
For a long time the company have been suffering from poor management of staff, bonuses compensation problems and poor catering services. In 2008 the company wide bonuses were canceled due to the economic down turn.[2] In 2009 a factory employee provided info to a reporter about being poisoned on the job. The company switched from the regularly used alcohol to a more toxic and dangerous ethane solvent. In September 2009 some employees came in contact with the chemicals.[3]
Also, according to a report of the 83 suppliers in China, 45 did not pay overtime costs to its employees. Another 23 suppliers were paying below the minimum wage.[3]
On January 15, 2009 at 8:45 to 9 am about 2000 factory workers gathered at the company and began destroying the factory properties.[2][4] The workers also blocked a road and threw stones at the police
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Suzhou_workers_riot
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Unrest in China Worse Than Widely Reported
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Even security guards and teachers have staged protests as disorder sweeps through the industrial zones that were built on cheap manufacturing for multinational companies. Worker dormitory suburbs already resemble ghost towns…
The Communist party is so concerned to buy off trouble that in one case, confirmed by a local government official in Foshan, armed police forced a factory owner to withdraw cash from the bank to pay his workers.
“Hundreds of workers protested outside the city government so we ordered the boss to settle the back pay and sent police armed with machine-guns to take him to the bank and deliver the money to his workforce that very night,” the official said.
On January 15 there were pitched battles at a textile factory in the nearby city of Dongguan between striking workers and security guards.
On January 16, about 100 auxiliary security officers, known in Chinese as Bao An, staged a street protest after they were sacked by a state-owned firm in Shenzhen, a boom town adjoining Hong Kong.
About 1,000 teachers confronted police on the streets of Yangjiang on January 5, demanding their wages from the local authorities.
In one sample week in late December, 2,000 workers at a Singapore-owned firm in Shanghai held a wage protest and thousands of farmers staged 12 days of mass demonstrations over economic problems outside the city.
All along the coast, angry workers besieged labour offices and government buildings after dozens of factories closed their doors without paying wages and their owners went back to Hong Kong, Taiwan or South Korea.
In southern China, hundreds of workers blocked a highway to protest against pay cuts imposed by managers. At several factories, there were scenes of chaos as police were called to stop creditors breaking in to seize equipment in lieu of debts.
In northern China, television journalists were punished after they prepared a story on the occupation of a textile mill by 6,000 workers. Furious local leaders in the city of Linfen said the news item would “destroy social stability” and banned it.
At textile companies in Suzhou, historic centre of the silk trade, sales managers told of a collapse in export orders. “This time last year our monthly output to Britain and other markets was 60,000 metres of cloth. This month it’s 3,000 metres,” said one.
She said companies dared not accept orders in pounds or euros for fear of wild currency fluctuations. Trade finance has all but ceased. Some 40% of the workforce had been laid off, she added.
Nearby, in the industrial hub of Changshu, all the talk was of Singapore-listed Ferro China, which exported steel products to customers in Britain, Germany, Korea and Japan. Last October its shares were suspended.
The company is reported to have been weighed down by $800m in debts and, according to the specialist business magazine Caijing, has started a court-or-dered restructuring.
A researcher found the gates closed and under tight guard, 2,000 employees out of work and witnesses who told of company vehicles being seized by impatient creditors. Holders of Ferro China debt include Credit Suisse and Citi-group.
Even in the city regarded as the most entrepreneurial in China, Wenzhou, the business community is reeling. “We estimate that foreign companies have defaulted on payments for 20 billion yuan (£20 billion) owed to Wenzhou firms,” said Zhou Dewen, chairman of the city’s association for small and medium-sized businesses.
Yves here. Now these are all separate incidents, none mass scale, but consider: this report was prepared by a Western paper in a country with a controlled media and state apparatus that does not want news of unrest leaking out. For every incident they heard about, there are anywhere from two to ten more that they didn’t.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/unrest-in-china-worse-than-widely.html
Page last updated at 21:47 GMT, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:47 UK
Ethnic tensions taboo in China
By Vaudine England
BBC News, Guangzhou
On 26 June Han and Uighurs at a toy factory in the Guangdong town of Shaoguan fought each other for hours, leaving at least two dead and 118 injured.
It was over this violence that Uighurs in Urumqi, in the north-western Xinjiang province, rallied on Sunday, leading to much more deadly clashes.
...The difference in China is that people are reluctant to discuss the issue, and the tensions are hard to measure.
Amateur footage of toy factory riots
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8141541.stm
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Mat 10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Mat 10:18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Mat 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Mat 10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.