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skylar on January 6, 2009 - 10:41am

China seen facing wave of unrest in 2009

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090106/wl_nm/us_china_unrest_7

The unusually stark report in this week's Outlook (Liaowang) Magazine, issued by the official Xinhua news agency, said faltering growth could spark anger among millions of migrant workers and university graduates left jobless.

"Without doubt, now we're entering a peak period for mass incidents," a senior Xinhua reporter, Huang Huo, told the magazine, using the official euphemism for riots and protests.

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Xav on January 7, 2009 - 12:16am

I suspect there will be a lot more unrest around the world. In "non democratic" countries, such as China, Singapore, Gulf states,... the untold agreement between people and government is that as long as the populace has to eat and economic growth, then they wouldn't question their leaders.

Suharto managed to keep power and steal Indonesia's resources for 30 years, but was toppled by street pressure after the Asian economic crisis of 1997.

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