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Head to Ace of Spades - Riots in China.
2020-03-27
[Ace and Twitter]
Hit the "continue" button and the riots pop up.
Posted by:3dc

#33  Heh™, #30 AA5839. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2020-03-27 23:41  

#32  Big big battle between authorities and citizens on a major bridge at coronavirus ground zero area China. See top story www.breitbart.com.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2020-03-27 23:05  

#31  Good catch, AlmostAnonymous5839.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-03-27 22:55  

#30   Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative

tw, some intern had to burn some midnight to fit the words to the acronym. 8-)
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2020-03-27 22:50  

#29  All the spring break idiots have the cell phones from china talk about getting chipped like a fuxking dog!
Posted by: Otto Greating6823   2020-03-27 22:24  

#28  Always remember while the CCP cries it is just superstition , "The Mandate Of Heaven" and the loss of it is believed by an awful lot of Chinese.
The Corona Virus is being cited as Xi's loss of the "Mandate".


It's not so much belief as an opening. Pandemics have kicked off a bunch of major revolts in the past, and ambitious men are wracking their brains for a way to exploit this opening. I don't blame them - any opportunity to turf a vile dictatorship that stomps on you at every opportunity is a good one.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2020-03-27 21:59  

#27  I was in the first hundred or so that exited and by the time we got to the outside courtyard, armed CCP soldiers had already blocked the access to the outside streets.

I'm guessing that these were People's Armed Police, paramilitary gendarmes charged with suppressing riots and insurrections. No heavy weaponry (i.e. tanks and artillery), but mostly jeeps and AK's.

Point of this post is the CCP military doesn't staff huge bases off in the hinterland, but rather cluster mid sized outposts all over the cities, ready to respond on a moments notice. They can respond with very real non PC force quicker than most city PD's in the US.

A big part of Chinese revolts in the past has been local commanders deciding to make a bid for the throne. There's a lot of excessive overt servility masking bottomless personal ambition.

Xi Jinping came to power because the various Chinese factions thought of him as a toothless tiger and chose him as a compromise candidate. Then he bared his fangs and imprisoned a bunch of the people who put him in power. He needs to stay dictator for life. If he ever steps down, the only way he stays out of prison is by going into exile.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2020-03-27 21:55  

#26  This appears to be a clash between police force of 2 provinces and that probably at some border. Not a generalized thing.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520   2020-03-27 21:41  

#25  If you have you read many translated Chinese Web Novels with a modern setting you will notice: The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army is uniformly treated with far, far more respect than the CCP, industry or government.

As long as the PLA stays steady this will fade away. If not, then the Mandate Of Heaven will pass...
Posted by: magpie   2020-03-27 20:48  

#24  From Matt’s UPI article:

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law the Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative, "sending a strong message to nations that there will be consequences for supporting Chinese actions that undermine Taiwan," according to U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., who introduced the bill last May.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-03-27 19:52  

#23  Always remember while the CCP cries it is just superstition , "The Mandate Of Heaven" and the loss of it is believed by an awful lot of Chinese.
The Corona Virus is being cited as Xi's loss of the "Mandate".
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163   2020-03-27 19:40  

#22  Remake of Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be wild.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-03-27 18:42  

#21  Toured China in 2008, before the Olympics but after a major quake. Was in Xian at a natural history museum when an aftershock hit. I didn't even feel it (and I lived in CA for 14 years) but the crowds started rushing for the exit doors. I was in the first hundred or so that exited and by the time we got to the outside courtyard, armed CCP soldiers had already blocked the access to the outside streets. We spent the next 45 minutes locked in the courtyard.
Point of this post is the CCP military doesn't staff huge bases off in the hinterland, but rather cluster mid sized outposts all over the cities, ready to respond on a moments notice. They can respond with very real non PC force quicker than most city PD's in the US.
When China falls, it will shatter quickly and violently.
Posted by: Capsu78   2020-03-27 18:28  

#20  #16 @grom I love it
Posted by: KBK   2020-03-27 18:20  

#19  The world debates quarantining itself from China while Chinese provinces are apparently quarantining themselves from each other.

Wouldn't be the first time this happened in the Central Realm.
Posted by: charger   2020-03-27 17:59  

#18  China population=1.386 billion x 10%=138,600,000 infected, x 3.5% death rate = 4,851,000 fewer cell phone subscribers.
Posted by: Fred   2020-03-27 17:49  

#17  If I lived in China my cell would be broken most of the time.
Posted by: Lonzo Hapsburg5562   2020-03-27 17:43  

#16  China been breaking up for 4000 years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-27 17:36  

#15  They were at the edge before the virus.

How many Chicom leaders have been infected? Part of me has always wondered about the idea of this being a bio weapon used against the Chinese people by a Chinese government that didn't want to be torn apart in the streets.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-03-27 17:34  

#14  if you had a phone and pictures... they have you in their databases and the AI can follow you.
Posted by: 3dc   2020-03-27 17:09  

#13  I thought they were required to carry a phone as part of the "social credit" system.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-03-27 17:08  

#12  You can’t be easily tracked/monitored if you don’t have a cell phone.
Posted by: Lonzo Hapsburg5562   2020-03-27 16:58  

#11  It's like that old Tibetan curse: May the Chinese live in interesting times.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-03-27 16:53  

#10  /\ Well, if there is any validity to the WND article at #7, I can see why 3dc's wife could be on to something. Hope things are settling down in the UK. I'd still like to get over to the museum at RAF Duxford in the Fall.

BTW, I know an Agency headquartered in Maryland who might be able to confirm a 21 million cellie user reduction rather quickly. Just say'n.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-27 16:51  

#9  "difficult-to-explain decline by about 21 million in the number of mobile phone users in China, according to The Epoch Times."

Maybe closed business?
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520   2020-03-27 16:50  

#8  My wife says we need to watch Chongqing carefully right now. Their party leadership was jailed and some executed in the last bit before Xi. They are angry... Which way will they pull?

When Xi made himself lifetime god emperor there were gun fights in the great hall of the people between Chongqing party and other party factions.

It looks like we may live in much more interesting times.
Posted by: 3dc   2020-03-27 16:48  

#7  21 million Chinese terminate the use of mobile phones ?

If Chinese government authorities are to be believed, the new coronavirus thought to have originated within its city of Wuhan in 2019 has largely run its course in China and, contrary to worst-case estimates, only a few thousand people died from the COVID-19 disease.

Of course, the Chinese regime can't exactly be trusted completely as virtually all "official" information coming out of the country is carefully controlled propaganda designed to promote the Communist Party's preferred narratives, with information that reflects unfavorably on the regime often being suppressed or countered.

However, it appears that one particular piece of official information slipped past the censors that might contradict the "official" death toll from the coronavirus: an unfathomable and difficult-to-explain decline by about 21 million in the number of mobile phone users in China, according to The Epoch Times.


Strange, very, very strange.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-27 16:41  

#6  Tom Friedman to the white courtesy phone.

Much to my surprise, the UPI actually has an article on this.
Posted by: Matt   2020-03-27 16:15  

#5  The loss of CCP mystique and prestige is damaging. People realize they're just gangster assholes on a larger scale
Posted by: Frank G   2020-03-27 16:09  

#4  China’s Defense Spending Is Larger Than It Looks
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-27 15:57  

#3  Possibly. The CCP will continue as long as they get their monetary cut. Once that stops all bets are off.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-03-27 15:50  

#2  DV, I hope you're right but figure you're overly optimistic.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-03-27 15:46  

#1  Beginning of China starting to come apart? CCP is in major trouble I think.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-03-27 15:29  

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