Chinese leaders order internet whitewash amid rumours attempted military coup

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 22 March 2012 | Peter Simpson

[THX 1138]

Well, its the Daily Mail, so let’s just wait and see...

[PotatoHeadMick]

It is the Mail and while they do have silly stories relating to minor issues I can’t imagine they’d let their, presumably highly paid, correspondent in Beijing lose the run of himself, I suspect there might be something to this.

[null and void]

Today the government denied rumors that...

[GeronL]

The hardliners want to get rid of the market economy.

I guess they want to impoverish China like it use to be.

They’ll need to call in that debt pretty quick.

[RayChuang88]

If something really serious was up, China would have put all their military forces on alert and likely cut off all communications in and out of the country. That would result in increased surveillance by American intelligence assets, including RC-135 flights 30-50 miles off the coastline of China. And it would put the Taiwanese military on high alert, and American forces on Okinawa, Japan and South Korea would be put on higher alert status also.

[Vince Ferrer]

This isn’t in a backwater area, it is the same as having a shootout on the national mall in D.C. There are tourists everywhere. We may have to wait until they get back home, but if it was big enough, someone saw it.

[mo]

“The hardliners want to get rid of the market economy....”

Maybe they’ll team up with our leaders in DC....

[mountainlion]

Muslim spring?

[bmwcyle]

DC in the east Pacific.

[GeronL]

did anyone get a picture of these tanks?

[hoosiermama]

What are you two hearing?

[driftdiver]

They can call it in all they want. They are bonds. They can sell them or they can hold em. Otherwise Bernake will just print more money to pay them.

[THX 1138]

OK, I looked around, and it looks like a power struggle may be on. Bo is what I guess you would call a hard-liner. There is quite a bit of dissatisfaction with the way economic reforms are going on over there. My wife is Chinese, from the PRC, and I've been there a number of times. One thing that is always preached is "harmony", which, considering the divisions Chinese crony capitalism has created, is in pretty short supply. The last thing the leadership wants is to appear divided.

This guy Bo looks like he wants to derail the market reforms that have been achieved. But I'm guessing the real reason they whacked this guy was because he wanted to crack down on corruption, which is rampant there. Guarantee you that's why the current leadership wanted him gone. They're all crooks and everybody there knows it.

[mo]

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120322000063&cid=1101

[GeronL]

bump

[TigerLikesRooster]

I heard the news before major news outlet picked it up. Nobody knows for sure, but it seems that there is no outright coup. Maybe some low-scale confrontation such as what happened in Chongqing when high ranking police official tried to defect to U.S.. Still the power struggle is real.

[BykrBayb]

That can’t happen here, because our leader doesn’t have the power to... Oh yeah, never mind.

[dfwgator]

China is a house of cards, that can fall at any time.

[THX 1138]

China is a house of cards, that can fall at any time.

What do you mean, economically or politically?

China has a lot of economic problems that are being made worse by corruption. Politically, the current leadership will do whatever it takes to keep a lid on any kind of social problems, even if that means putting tanks on the street. What do you think the 3 million strong PLA is for? Who are they going to attack with that large an army? No, that's for internal control...