Growing ‘Occupy’ movement makes China nervous – The Globe and Mail

Could Occupy Wall Street be America’s Arab Spring? the China Daily asked gleefully before going on to argue the Arab Spring was in fact “objectively non-existent.” (China’s leaders have opposed the uprisings in the Middle East every step of the way, perhaps seeing a little of themselves in Hosni Mubarak, Moammar Gadhafi and Bashar Assad.)

With no apparent sense of irony at all, the state-controlled Chinese press even joined those accusing the mainstream U.S. media counterparts of imposing a blackout on the Occupy Wall Street protests.

But that was back when the “Occupy” protests were safely an ocean and a bit away in New York City. But the movement’s rapid spread across North America and Europe to Asia – Occupy Tokyo, Occupy Seoul and Occupy Taipei protests began on Oct. 15 – has clearly rattled the Communist Party leadership. There’s even a small but ongoing Occupy Hong Kong protest camp in front of the HSBC headquarters in that separate-but-still-part-of-China city’s financial district.

Growing ‘Occupy’ movement makes China nervous – The Globe and Mail

2 Comments.

  1. The style of leadership coming from China really hasn’t changed since Mao. The communist structure has not changed from generation to generation, therefore life still has little or no value to those who have been in in power since him. Hundreds, if not thousands of demonstrations are quelled every year. Why would they worry when they can still make them “disappear” as they have done to thousands of dissidents throughout the years?

    I’ll say it again: Communist China has ZERO respect for human life.

    Think I’m joking? Watch this video as a Chinese child gets ran over twice, by two separate trucks, then 20 Chinese walk by and ignore a writhing kid… and these aren’t the military. These are actual Chinese CITIZENS.

    (Note: It’s graphic but censored and not bloody/gory. Don’t click if you don’t think you’ll stomach it.)

    http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEzMDY4OTcy.html

  2. You would also think these “Occupy” flea baggers in America would take heed of an ex-Soviet citizen’s warning… But nah, he’s just some crazy guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, possibly out of medication. People have eyes, but they do not see. They have ears, but do not listen. Watch on:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jMV0TR3pGzg#!