From AFP, via The Africa Leader:
China risks serious social instability unless it quickly tackles widespread discontent over worsening pollution and officially-backed land requisitions that have sparked major public demonstrations, analysts and environmentalists say.
Violent public protests throughout China are happening with increasing regularity as anger erupts at what is seen as the ruling Communists party’s inability to enforce laws and guarantee basic rights.
“It shows that they feel the social conflict and the solution is so bad that there is no choice but to protest, given the channels that they have,” said Sze Pangcheung, of Greenpeace China.
