China's Law-And-Order Czar Warns That Slowdown Will Lead To Social Unrest

AP ^ | 12-3-2011 | AP

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China's Law-And-Order Czar Warns That Slowdown Will Lead To Social Unrest

AP
Dec. 3, 2011, 6:28 AM

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese leadership's law-and-order czar is warning that China is ill-prepared for social unrest generated by changes in the economy, in the latest sign that the government is worried about the consequences of flagging growth.

The government needs better methods for dealing with "the negative effects" of the economy, Politburo member Zhou Yongkang said in remarks to provincial officials Friday that were published Saturday by the official Xinhua News Agency. Zhou called for innovative approaches to social management — a euphemism for a clutch of policies as diverse as stepped-up policing and unemployment insurance meant to dampen unrest.

"Especially when facing the negative effects of the market economy, we still have not formed a complete mechanism for social management," Zhou said. How to do so, he said, "is the great and urgent task before us."

Zhou's remarks underscore growing government uneasiness about an economic slowdown and the social unrest it might bring. In the past week, a much-watched index showed manufacturing contracting sharply, and the government lowered controls on bank reserves to encourage more lending. Meanwhile, strikes and other job actions have ticked up recently as factories retrench to confront higher labor costs and reduced demand for exports from Europe.

Zhou urged provincial officials to eliminate wasteful spending that has contributed to the mass protests, riots and other unrest that have proliferated in recent years.

In another instance of frayed tensions, Xinhua reported that hundreds of people overturned four police and government cars Friday in the central city of Xi'an after a truck hit and killed a girl and police did not arrive at the scene for two hours.

[Travis McGee]

The Chicoms know how to deal with "social unrest." And ammo is cheap.

Heck, they even turn a profit on the harvested organs.

Andy Stern must be SO jealous.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Occupy Tienenmen Square?

[nathanbedford]

Andy Stern will be very pleased, if he and his friends who are bringing us the occupy movement can manage the quantity of riots that are presently infesting China, Stern will probably celebrate by wearing a Mao jacket.

[Brilliant]

May I suggest democracy?

[Caipirabob]

THE TIENENMEN PROTESTER REUNION - WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

[traumer]

No s...

[kaila]

Can you give us some background of that picture?
When was it taken?

[steveab]

The bliss of “Central Planning”.

[Travis McGee]

Just google “china executions” and peruse what is out there. There are a lot of Chinese freedom fighters doing what they can, mainly on the internet.

Behind this line of prisoners are a line of surgical vans, with Chinese doctors and nurses waiting to harvest organs for resale, mostly to Westerners with no souls.

And Andy Stern thinks we should copy them.

[familyop]

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[familyop]

"Meanwhile, strikes and other job actions have ticked up recently as factories retrench to confront higher labor costs...Zhou urged provincial officials to eliminate wasteful spending that has contributed to the mass protests..."

Sound familiar? Look for prices of Asian and other imports to go up before long (most of the non-food, non-toiletry items that we buy). It's a free market consequence of the global trade regime--a consequence that global business/political leaders are trying to prevent (but won't).

And the dollar? It will fall. And oil will go up.

[familyop]

Good one, and true.

http://www.laogai.org/