Claims of Injustice Spur Wave of Unrest in China

[tekisui]

Source: McClatchy

ZENGCHENG, China — Pulling out his camera, Zhu Bin grinned and pointed as he scrolled through the images. Two cars sat ablaze against a dark sky in one picture, and in the next, thick rows of police tried to keep order with riot shields.

There, on the street next to the Sun City Hotel and a karaoke bar, it looked like all hell was breaking loose on a sweltering Sunday night. Underneath the streetlights, a mob of hundreds wandered among the smoke and broken glass.

The chaos last weekend that shook this city in Guangdong province, one of China's key industrial bases, was another in a string of especially volatile demonstrations that have swept the country in recent weeks.

The details vary, but the outbreak points to serious challenges for the Chinese Communist Party on the eve of the 90th anniversary July 1 of the party's founding. At its root is the fact that after 30 years of rapid economic development the average Chinese has almost no legal or political means to pursue grievances against the government and those it protects.

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[theophilus]

1. China and the U.S. seem to headed for a "meeting" from different poles. I wonder

if the people can come together and kick the governmental miscreants out?

[femrap]

2. Workers Unite. nt

[girl gone mad]

3. "the average Chinese has almost no legal or political means to pursue grievances against..

the government and those it protects."

And the average American?