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| China on highest guard over Tibet protests |
| 2012-02-07 |
| China's anxious leadership has warned security and government officials struggling to control restive Tibetans to be on their "highest guard" ahead of this month's Tibetan New Year festival. Following recent sporadic, deadly riots and a series of self-immolations by monks and nuns in Tibet and Tibetan communities in the country's western provinces, Beijing fears the potentially volatile holiday period – which begins on the 22nd – could muster coordinated and widespread anti-Chinese rule riots. "Officials must put all their efforts into maintaining a stable, unified social situation in our region. They must have a clear head and fully recognise the extreme importance and urgency of the job of maintaining stability," a Communist Party notice said in the state-run Tibet Daily newspaper. "Government departments must unstintingly carry out all measures designed to maintain stability, " the notice ordered. The diktat did not detail what measures should be deployed to quell any further unrest. But with the fifth anniversary of the large-scale March 2008 Tibet uprising also looming, the message to strike hard and stamp out any signs of mass revolt was clear. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 China already has a sizeable garrison in Tibet. It seems to me, an armed confrontation is the last thing the PLA/CCP wants. |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-02-07 07:03 |
| #2 FYI CHINA DAILY FORUM POSTER = CHINA SHOULD MOVE 100.0MILYUHN PEOPLE INTO XINJIANG + TIBET. "Just do it". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-07 00:54 |
| #1 Must be serious when even the legendary SHAOLIN = SIL LUM TEMPLE is suffering a recent decline in tourists??? * ION WORLD NEWS > JOHN MCCAIN RUFFLES BEIJING'S FEATHERS [PRC VFM Zhang Zhijun] BY SUGGESTING "THE ARAB SPRING IS COMING TO CHINA". * SAME > CHINA NOW CALLS THE SENKAKU ISLANDS [China = Daoyus/Daoyutai] ITS "CORE INTEREST". * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA RESPONDS TO REPORTS OF US ARMY [Military = USDOD] PRESENCE, in the Philippines. Sends the "wrong signal" as per resolution of SCS Disputes. ARTIC > MANILA BASED LEFTIST GROUP = BAYAN MUNA REP. TEDDY CARINO - PHIL DECISIONS PROVE AQUINO ADMIN. IS WEAK IN FINDING UNILATERAL SOLUTIONS TO SINO-PHIL SCS DISPUTES. * WORLD MIL FORUM > PLA EXPERTS: US TROOP PRESENCE IN OKINAWA, AUSTRALIA, RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES PROVES CHINA'S STRATEGY OF STRIKING THE US AIRCRAFT CARRIER BEFORE IT ENTERS EAST ASIA. EXPANSION OF PLAN SUB FLEET, ANTI-NAVAL STRATEGIC BOMBERS, IMPROVEMENTS TO DF-21D ASBMS TO ATTACK THE US AIRCRAFT CARRIER BEYOND THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN". "SECOND, THIRD ISLAND CHAIN" ATTACK. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-07 00:25 |