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发帖数: 7918 | 1 China calls for domestic unrest to be defused
By Chris Buckley
Mon Feb 21, 7:37 am ET
BEIJING (Reuters) – China must find new ways to defuse unrest, the domestic
security chief said,
underscoring Beijing's anxiety about control after police quashed calls for
gatherings inspired by uprisings
in the Middle East.
A Foreign Ministry official separately blamed the political violence
sweeping the Middle East on too-slow
growth and stunted efforts at reform.
Zhou Yongkang, the ruling Communist Party's top law-and-order official, told
cadres they had to "adapt to
new trends and imperatives in economic and social development", official
newspapers reported on Monday.
"Strive to defuse conflicts and disputes while they are still embryonic," he
told an official meeting on Sunday,
the China Police Daily and other papers reported.
Over the weekend, Chinese police and censors showed the Communist Party has
little to fear from
protesters hoping to emulate the unrest that has unseated Egypt's long-time
president, Hosni Mubarak, and
now threatens Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
Police dispersed dozens of people who gathered in central Beijing and
Shanghai on Sunday after calls
spread on overseas Chinese websites urging "Jasmine Revolution" gatherings.
The police and foreign
reporters outnumbered aspiring participants and curious passers-by caught up
in the crowd.
There were no signs of protests in Beijing on Monday.
"I don't think this was ever a serious plan. It was more like a performance
or a stunt," said Cui Weiping, a
Beijing-based scholar who said she was not allowed outside by authorities on
Sunday. "In fact I'd never even
had any involvement. They seem to have just confined anyone they could think
of."
"JASMINE" STILL UNSEARCHABLE
The senior Foreign Ministry policy planning official said the Middle Eastern
turmoil arose from the failure of
countries to grow and adapt quickly enough.
"Three feet of ice doesn't freeze over in one day, as we say. This has deep
social, economic and historical
background," said the official, speaking to a small group of reporters on
condition that his name was not
cited.
"I think these countries may have not been able to keep up with the times in
their social and economic
system," he said. "Some countries have had relatively slow economic
development. Their rate of economic
growth hasn't been fast enough."
That is hardly a worry for China, whose economy expanded by 10.3 percent
last year. But a flurry of
speeches and statements since last week show leaders are nonetheless worried
about longer-term
challenges to their rule.
China's fast economic growth has undercut discontent that could challenge
the government. It has also
enabled sharply higher funding for domestic security forces, which bristle
with surveillance equipment and
intimidating hardware.
Yet despite harsh restrictions on independent political activity, China has
many local riots, protests and
strikes, often sparked by anger over corruption, land disputes and job
losses.
The central government fears those tensions could accumulate. Provincial and
ministerial level officials have
been meeting in Beijing to discuss how to cope with these worries through
stronger "social management",
and President Hu Jintao himself told them that they should be worried.
"The problems remain of development that is unbalanced, ill-coordinated and
unsustainable," Hu said in a
speech on Saturday. He urged the officials to "strengthen governance to nip
social conflicts in the bud".
The Chinese words for "jasmine" and "jasmine revolution" remained blocked
Monday on the searches of
China's Twitter-like website Sina.com, and on Tianya.cn, a popular chatroom.
Chinese state media have been largely silent on the planned protests,
although state news agency Xinhua
published two short articles that described how police dispersed the small
crowds that had gathered in
Beijing and Shanghai.
The Communist Party's zeal in smothering dissent to maintain stability at
all costs has created a domestic
security system so expensive that it is sapping funds needed elsewhere to
maintain the country's economic
health.
Critics say the Communist Party's reluctance to embrace political reforms
will ultimately doom its efforts to
create a more "harmonious society", particularly if it can't control
officials who are the target of discontent.
"The Chinese government is extremely powerful vis-a-vis society," said Pei
Minxin, a political scientist at
Claremont McKenna College in California. "But this is a government that is
very weak at disciplining or
policing its own agents."
(Additional reporting by Huang Yan and Sui-Lee Wee, Editing by Nick Macfie) | p**********d
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: China calls for domestic unrest to be defused
: By Chris Buckley
: Mon Feb 21, 7:37 am ET
: BEIJING (Reuters) – China must find new ways to defuse unrest, the domestic
: security chief said,
: underscoring Beijing's anxiety about control after police quashed calls for
: gatherings inspired by uprisings
: in the Middle East.
: A Foreign Ministry official separately blamed the political violence
: sweeping the Middle East on too-slow
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