Chinese leaders fret about unrest as economy sours

[ellisonz]

Source: McClatchy

By David Pierson | McClatchy Tribune newswire

BEIJING - One of China's most senior officials has acknowledged that the souring global economy has the government on edge.

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Zhou Yongkang, a member of China's nine-person Politburo Standing Committee, said the country should focus on developing better "social management" - a euphemism for control aimed at stamping out opposition and demonstrations.

"Faced with the negative impact of the market economy, we still have not established a complete social management system," Zhou said. "How to establish a social management with Chinese characteristics to suit the socialistic market economic system in China is the most pressing task we face today."

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If mass unrest does break out, the government appears prepared. For the first time, China this year will spend more on "public security" than the military, boosting the budget nearly 14 percent to $95 billion to cover surveillance, jails and paramilitary police.


Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/05/132241/chinese-leaders-fret-about-unrest.html

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The PRC will collapse from the inside, I would reason within our lifetimes.

[DCBob]

1. The Chinese people are already on edge due to the looming housing bubble about to burst.

And the Chinese officials plan to manage this with "social management". That doesnt sound good.

[ellisonz]

2. Nope.

The cover-up won't work. There are too many foreigners in the PRC to hide it all.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/a-self-immolation-in-tiananmen-square-is-reported/

[Newest Reality]

3. I'm sure we have some

excellent consultants here that can help them repress and turn-back the tide of resentful peons who dare to speak out and protest being screwed with extra sauce and abandoned like unwanted dogs.

We can probably export some great repression gear and useful tools, as well. I would assume that China already has essentials like the ability to disappear people without due process and the Patriot Act, since they are already familiar with totalitarianism.

We are going to be number one in the world, when it comes to total control, soon. America F**K Yeah!

[bemildred]

4. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt

[unkachuck]

5. "How to establish a social management with Chinese characteristics..."

....this should be relatively easy....develop, maintain and enlarge the state sector and create a huge safety net to meet the needs of the Chinese people....

....you are Chinese Communists, aren't you? What would Chairman Mao suggest?

"Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy."

'Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art' (May 1942), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 70.

[DeSwiss]

6. They've been rioting in China for quite a while now......

...but you have to go looking for the news reports because the Chinese are better at controlling their press than we are. If the Chinese press don't write the ''correct'' things, they get this:



Chinese riots:

http://libcom.org/news/riots-china-14062011

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/china-protests-guizhou-economy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15482319

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15032458

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/12/thousands-riot-in-chinas-guizhou-province-xinhua/

For less biased news about China, check out the NTDTV Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/NTDTV

- K&R

[ellisonz]

8. Thank you for resources!

[DeSwiss]

9. De Nada

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abo7ZGdMaNA&feature=channel_video_title">Today's NTD News is especially relevant to the question of labor issues and riots. Not to mention the Communist official who stole billions of dollars and had 49 mistresses......

[Javaman]

7. If you think Europe doesn't have effective economic control over the Euro...

You ain't seen nothing yet.