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India must watch China closely since progress for the sake of progress can be disastrous.
China will be able to weather the storm because it a totalitarian country and because the people are attuned through historical reasons to obey the Govt.
In India it will be total chaos given that we are a democracy.
This is what a lopsided approach to growth and on a wild frenzied pace can do to a country.Rebellious Chinese village under siege by police
An undated cellphone picture shows thousands of residents of Wukan village in China's Guangdong province carrying a banner saying "Wukan's people were treated unjustly" during a protest of alleged illegal land seizures.
BEIJING– For years, in the name of social harmony, China's ruling Communist Party has been highly successful in masking, placating or simply distorting the tens of thousands of protests – dubbed "mass demonstrations" – that occur here ever year.
The Wukan rebellion will prove a tougher dilemma for Beijing to solve.
From The Telegraph newspaper's Malcolm Moore comes details of the stunning story of Wukan, a fishing village of 20,000 in China's southern Guangdong Province. Earlier this week, the entire town rose up and threw out local party officials and police forces following years of having the people's land sold out from underneath them.
The villagers' frustration mixed with anger over news that one of the protest organizers, Xue Jinbo, died in police custody, allegedly from a heart attack. Since the start of the revolt in September, Wukan residents have successfully thwarted multiple attempts by the police to re-enter the town by creating roadblocks out of fallen trees or just using themselves.
They are now in a tense standoff with security forces, which earlier formed a cordon around Wukan--although a villager inside the perimeter told NBC News earlier today by phone that the cordon has been removed, leaving one checkpoint blocking the central access into the town.
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If the Chinese people use their sheer numbers against the authorities, the leaders would not stand a chance. Why they are holding back on this village is a stumper.
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India must watch China closely since progress for the sake of progress can be disastrous.
China will be able to weather the storm because it a totalitarian country and because the people are attuned through historical reasons to obey the Govt.
In India it will be total chaos given that we are a democracy.