The Chinese government is getting increasingly twitchy about what officials say is a rapid growth in the number and scale of public protests. In its latest bid to quash them, this week it announced a sweeping ban on internet material that incites “illegal demonstrations”. Does China face serious instability? Probably not, for now at least. But in the longer term there are reasons to worry.
The cauldron boils – Economist
Posted by Sophie Beach | Sep 29, 2005
Tags :protests,social unrest
