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Beijing, China (CNN) - I had thought China's situation was significantly different from the Middle East because the government has been successful in bringing better living standards to the people here. You would think that would make Beijing feel less vulnerable. But perhaps all authoritarian regimes react the same.

The freedom movements in northern Africa have been fueled by electronic communications between citizens. The Chinese government controls that technology so tightly that a freedom movement there doesn't have much chance to succeed without the unifying force of Facebook or Twitter. As the CNN article above shows, the Chinese government is so paranoid about the Internet and social unrest that they will snuff out the slightest stirrings of anti-government activity.

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Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 4:54am

No more revolutions here !

CNN Beijing correspondent , Eunice Yoon

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Posted: Feb 20, 2011 - 1:06pm

China tries to stamp out pro-democracy rallies

Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution," with only a handful of people joining protests apparently modeled on the pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.

Authorities detained activists, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some cellphone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities. (...)

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Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 5:18am

miamizsun wrote:

Mao: Greatest Mass Murderer in World History?

Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'

By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent

Mr Dikötter is the only author to have delved into the Chinese archives since they were reopened four years ago. He argued that this devastating period of history - which has until now remained hidden - has international resonance. "It ranks alongside the gulags and the Holocaust as one of the three greatest events of the 20th century.... It was like Pol Pot's genocide multiplied 20 times over," he said

I was aware that, as with Stalin in the USSR, Mao's collectivization of agriculture was a total disaster with starvation being rampant.

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Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 4:55am

Mao: Greatest Mass Murderer in World History?

Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'

By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent

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Posted: Aug 24, 2010 - 9:02am
100-km Chinese traffic jam enters Day 9 This may be posted in another thread already. It's probably old news to some folks, but...

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Posted: Feb 7, 2010 - 2:28am
Servo wrote: Shorter. Depends where in China. In the South yes, still true, in the North, not anymore. The average heigth has increased twice as fast as in the US in the past decades. Treasury bonds effect?

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Posted: Feb 2, 2010 - 12:42pm
I was going to post this in the Obama thread, but decided not to jack it. However, since it's copied into my browser already, I'm putting it here. *********************************************************************************************************************************************** http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/China_water_crisis http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Lake_Baikal 1+1 =?

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Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 9:40pm
ytrav24 wrote: Are we in china now? How is everyone? Shorter.

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Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 6:29pm
Thanks for the reminder! Happy New Year

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Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 11:11am
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Welcome Year of Earth Ox 2009

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Posted: Oct 3, 2008 - 1:02pm

Skype Messages Monitored In China
"Human-rights activists have discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives Internet text conversations sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and eBay. Researchers say the system monitors a list of politically charged words that includes words related to the religious group Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, the Chinese Communist Party and also words like democracy, earthquake and milk powder. The encrypted list of words inside the Tom-Skype software blocks the transmission of these words and records personal information about the customers who send the messages. Researchers say their discovery contradicts a public statement made by Skype executives in 2006 that 'full end-to-end security is preserved and there is no compromise of people's privacy.' The Chinese government is not alone in its Internet surveillance efforts. In 2005, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency was monitoring large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of an eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. 'This is the worst nightmares of the conspiracy theorists around surveillance coming true,' says Ronald J. Deibert, an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. 'It's "X-Files" without the aliens.'"

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Posted: Jul 21, 2008 - 9:39am

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Posted: Apr 24, 2008 - 3:35am

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Posted: Jan 3, 2008 - 5:20am

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Posted: Jul 10, 2007 - 3:25pm

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Posted: Mar 20, 2007 - 10:01pm

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Posted: Nov 2, 2006 - 3:50pm

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