140 Killed In China - Ethnic Unrest

[Jimbeaux]

Here is another article explaining the ethnic stirrings a bit more:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530321,00.html...

[Fittster]

munroman said:

I worked in China a few years ago, and all is not well.

As long as every year peoples' standard of living was rising this helped keep a lid on a lot of the inequalities and corruption.

I was lucky enough to sit beside a Polish guy on a flight back to Europe, he had been working a long time in China pre the opening up of the Bamboo curtain. He was finding that as people got better informed they were also more aware of the huge gulf between their standard of living and the West and the top brass in the Communist Party, and were staring to ask questions.

I believe that China is by far and away the largest purchaser of riot control equipment.

There are many incidents which go unreported due to censorship.......

Err, the is a huge gap in income between the rich and poor in the West, it's not led to social unrest for a while.

[thehawk]

Trouble and violence where Muslims live, who would have thought it, eh?

[Jimbeaux]

Fittster said:

munroman said:

I worked in China a few years ago, and all is not well.

As long as every year peoples' standard of living was rising this helped keep a lid on a lot of the inequalities and corruption.

I was lucky enough to sit beside a Polish guy on a flight back to Europe, he had been working a long time in China pre the opening up of the Bamboo curtain. He was finding that as people got better informed they were also more aware of the huge gulf between their standard of living and the West and the top brass in the Communist Party, and were staring to ask questions.

I believe that China is by far and away the largest purchaser of riot control equipment.

There are many incidents which go unreported due to censorship.......

Err, the is a huge gap in income between the rich and poor in the West, it's not led to social unrest for a while.

Ummm, the gap between rich and poor in the West vs. what is found in China is a hell of a big difference.

[Colonial]

thehawk said:

Trouble and violence where Muslims live, who would have thought it, eh?

Trouble and violence in a disputed chinese province, who would have thought it, eh?

[ATG]

Whether or not at a cursory glance it seems irrational to any of us as outsiders (including Han), people value self-determination, their cultural heritage and identity more highly than they value economic and material progress. Like the Tibetans, the Uyghurs demonstratively resent their political and economic domination, completely regardless of what the Chinese state has to offer in terms of economic and, arguably, social development. The Chinese state is repeating many of the mistakes that Western nations made during their imperial eras. it is inevitable that if you try to export your "better" system of government and economic model to a region, particularly if you do so by encouraging immigration into that region, you will turn the indigenous cultural group into second-class citizens at the very least in their own eyes.