Jasmine Revolution in China
 

Chinas been dispelling protests for quite sometime especially in rural areas (rather large protests and riots i might add)

Its been known that the govt was concerned that riots would occur in major cities and we've heard of censoring the internet, to dissuade notions of revolutions, occurring as recently as the Egypt riots


So it looks like "someone"* tried to organize a revolution in China modeled after those seen in the middle-east

calling it a Mo-Li-Hua (Jasmine) Revolution the same name as the revolution in Tunisia


It called for people to come out with jasmine flowers in Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities within China

apparently the call first started on Feb 19 and it sounds that a few small groups showed up randomly @ the specified locations Along with a Huge presence of Police/Military uniformed/plaint clothed

Beijing
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...c44ecf9&size=l

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...1352319&size=l

HK
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...8ca5996&size=l

Shanghai
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...e4d0f37&size=l


A couple protesters were beaten, a Lawyer had his legs broken (shown on tv dont have an article)



http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...b29a14c18ace30

http://www.rferl.org/content/china_p...s/2315158.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12522856

Taiwan issued a call supporting dissent in China

http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNe...D=201102210025



* Im guessing that unorganized call for a Jasmine Revolution may have even begun internally (by chinese intelligence) just so dissenters foolish enough to come out could be arrested and from then on be monitored

yawn...

Oh yeah this is the webpage/blog that started the call




http://www.boxun.com/ (us based, chinese site)






well the real news story here isn't the "rioting" but rather the obvious presence that China deployed to the gathering areas as well as all the onlookers attracted to the sites solely because of this Jasmine call

We'll know when the shit hits the fan cause they will shut down their internet.
Until then, from their government's perspective, it's nothing out of the ordinary.

wth, who in their right mind would want any type of civil unrest in China??

instability in the world's second largest economy is not good for ANYBODY (*ahem* taiwan DPP....)

those are the cryer babies who missed the boat the first time.

I read about this and my first reaction was
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...9a2wo1_500.png,

and then I went to look up some videos and clips,
Regardless of the roots of this event, those damn Chinese people are having way too much fun with this. This "revolution" is essentially no different than your knockoff iPhone or LV bags. People see it and think it's cool. Cannot get it, they replicate it.

GTFO, China.

Also, lawl

protest failed.

No matter how "bad" the state of some places poverty in China are.
If more than just the Government people are making money. It really is hard to have a revolt.... Loook at how many f-ing ppl are getting crazy rich.

well this was unorganized, it was just 1 simple message on that boxun website and yet people turned out


what most people in the West haven't really heard about are all the major riots and protests going on in the rural areas, major ones; but since the media etc is kept out you only get reports and maybe the odd hidden video

but like the Internal defense minister noted there have been 90,000 Mass Incidents of unrest since 2007

what's lacking though is organization that's why when this website posted a call China reacted so heavily because it was the first semblance of any kind of organization (albeit a weak one)

video (in cantonese)

it shows beijing, shanghai, then hong kong.