I have been warning for years of the brittleness of the regime in China, despite (actually because of) its seemingly limitless autocratic power. While democratic India has trouble finding land for new steel mills and airports, roads and refineries, and above all electrical power plants, thereby limiting its growth, in China the regime just clears people out, more or less. Except that the Chinese people, human beings like you and me, hate this treatment. And they rebel against it tens of thousands of times a year. Mostly we don't hear about it, but violent civil unrest is a daily fact of life there. News rarely comes to the West, because China exercises censorship whenever it can. But a new riot has made the Western press:The International Herald-Tribune reports:An intensive campaign to enforce strict population-control measures prompted violent clashes between the police and local residents in southwestern China in recent days, witnesses said, describing the latest incident of rural...(Read Full Post)