China's Protests and Riots Worry the CCP

Top ten most significant mass protests of 2010, (photo by Epoch Times)

Unrest Grows as Economy Booms

According to a study released by Sun Liping, a professor at Tsinghua University, approximately 180,000 domestic protests and riots have occurred in China in 2010. This is more than three times the tally of a decade earlier.

As October 1st approached, the National Day of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), tens of thousands of petitioners gathered in Beijing. The CCP authorities had been on guard and began large-scale arrests.

Scholars and experts comment that the CCP's dictatorship and its acts of cruelty will eventually drive China’s masses to undertake a revolution similar to the one in Libya.

A Wall Street Journal article entitled "Unrest Grows as Economy Booms", said that the unrest isn't confined to the ethnic minority areas of Tibet and Xinjiang. Many protests stem from everyday economic injustices such as land grabs by developers, abuses of power by local officials, or unpaid wages by construction firms.

Zhao Yuanmin analyzed the CCP’s policy of allowing some people to be the first to get rich, which has resulted in a crop of “special interest groups” created solely by CCP officials. They haven't brought other people along who could also get rich, but instead, got involved in more and more corrupt practices, triggering Chinese civilians to live under extreme hardship.

Cao'an Jushi, an economic commentator, believes that the protests in China have been longstanding, simply because the civilians historically had been enclosed in a vacuum. They did not dare, nor were they aware how, to act. With the internet providing various sources of information, civilians have learned how to revolt, in a peaceful way, against the CCP's infringements on their rights.

Cao'an Jushi says, “The protests that broke out in recent years had reflected the CCP's ‘Doomsday’ mindset. The CCP authorities know that the regime won't last much longer, so it initiated its final large-scale plunder by using might and violence. A typical measure is to ‘maintain stability’, that is, to safeguard the CCP's stability with violence, and hence it intensifies  civilians' outrage.”

The Voice of Germany published an article entitled "China's Future”. In the end, the analysis said, “Back to reality: the CCP is heading on a dangerous path in the name of 'a stable and harmonious society'. They suppress important public discussions and civilians' views on the country's future. In dealing with ethnic conflicts they attribute the problems, actually created by themselves, to foreign countries.”

Zhao Yuanmin commented that the Libyan revolution will become a model and a trend for the future direction of Chinese society. Zhao Yuanmin said, “There is an old saying: 'If the masses don't fear death, what would be the use of threatening them with death?‘ Even if the CCP authorities have troops, most of the soldiers come from the masses. The soldier has friends and families, and all of them are living in misery. Currently they are subject to military disciplines, but when the soldiers eliminate these restrictions themselves, the army will then become unreliable.”

Cao'an Jushi believes that timing is critical for the outbreak of a public protest. Cao'an Jushi said, “The most important aspect of timing is a focal point of the masses. When stress is concentrated to a focal point,an event may occur. So far, the growth of large-scale protests and riots indicates that the focal point is approaching very closely. The outcome is that China will move towards democracy.”

A Wall Street Journal article said that the level of social tension and number of protests against the regime is rising. This is a major concern for the CCP as the government prepares to mark the 62nd anniversary of its National Day.