For the April 9, 2005 demonstration in Beijing, there is the suggestion that the government had a firm hand, including busing the demonstrators back home afterwards…
But on April 16, 2005, there was a massive demonstration in Shanghai. All the evidence suggested that this was an undirected and therefore disorganized event.
How would you reconcile the two theories? There exists a third theory that would make the Beijing and Shanghai events perfectly sensible. This may be characterized as a paranoid theory, but just because you are paranoid does not make the theory false. Read on.
See also blogger Running Dog’s post about the Shanghai demonstrations.
