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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Did you ever see any protests on the streets of China?
For example people protesting local government decisions or similar.
10 years 20 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
No, but there is a crowd outside my hotel wanting free ''Ted Was Here'' T-shirts. Well they aren't really free, take a number. I will get to you. So many women, so little time.
Anti-Japanese protests? I have seen them occur twice. First round in Chengdu in Autumn of 2010. Second round tail-end of 2012 here in Shenzhen. I saw that the protests in Chengdu were bigger, but the protests at the end of last year were more troublesome.
There was a big protest here in Ningbo earlier this year (or was it last year? how the time flies....). People were protesting the government's approval of the expansion of a local petrochemical plant due to fears of increased negative impacts on the environment. I didn't get to see it....local authorities stopped any and all traffic from entering the city center where the protest occurred.
Yeah, I did saw some. about 30-40 people, with transparents about bad air and some kills from the pollution, walking around our complexes, I got some photos, but not here. nothing special
Quite a few: land disputes, environmental, anti-Japanese. I heard recently that the number of environmental protests is now higher than the number of protests over land disputes, which is kind of interesting.
CARLGODWIN1983:
When it is in foreign news that the number of lung-cancer cases in Beijing has shot up, is it really any wonder?
Local shop keepers didn't want the main road torn up outside their shops for a underground mall , they had a sit in for about a week then they got board and the construction started up again .
There was a protest about safety on constructions sites...well...LACK of safety actually....in Yixi about 2 years ago. It was a low key protest with blackboards and cardboard signs. Even as I drove past I could see police working to move the protest on. By the time I came back that way after class it was like it had never happened.
Across the road from my apartment about 4 months ago I observed, very early in the morning, about 6-ish, a protest getting started with signs and stuff. It was being done rather surreptitiously, like they knew it was going to get stopped which it duly was. Street was all clear by 7.30am and I doubt anybody saw anything as it was a Sunday morning. Strange.
Anti-Japanese protests. Nutbags burning everything down all across China. I barely went outside because people kept giving me dirty looks. They could've sworn I was Japanese, or at least loosely-related to them.
I also saw a really super-ghetto protest of some old lady protesting the CCP as well. It was kind of hilarious, and went like this:
Legend: OPC = Old Protesting Chick, GB = Guilty Bystander
OPC: Look! Take these computer CDs. The atrocities of the CCP are all exposed here!
GB1: She's a reactionary!
GB2: I know! She wants to rebel!
OPC: You two are stupid cunts
GB1: Old aunty, you should shut your mouth if you know what's good for you.
OPC: Fuck your mother
GB2: No, I fuck your mother!
OPC: You don't know what's good for you! You're stupid!
GB1: No, you're stupid!
GB2: Stupid old woman! She is SHENJINGBING!
OPC: *sighs and walks away*
After witnessing that (my wife translated), I realized why the Chinese have never rebelled against the CCP, lol.
Scandinavian:
The first chairman wrote in a letter to some geezer that "the Chinese people are weak and can easily be controlled" (not an exact quote)
I saw a guy sitting wayyy up high on the top-most part of a bridge in Liuzhou years back in protest of his late wages. Seemed a stupid protest to me, they were probably hoping he'd jump. That reminds me of a video I saw some years back too where a guy was on a bridge, again wayyy up high, threatening to jump. Some old looking fella climbed up there like a monkey and pushed him off. The guy landed on an air-cushion below but it was kind of a gamble. Priceless.
A couple of hundred local government drivers staged an outdoors protest over their poor working conditions in my city early last year.
In an effort to get them away from the staring eyes of the public they were ushered into a big hall on the premise their concerns would be addressed by the fat controller.
After herding them all into the room the a/c was promply shut down, the lights turned off and the doors locked.
Ten hours later they were released.
A week or so later the drivers hired several buses to take them to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, 4,000 km away, to register their protest.
The authorities got wind of their plan and had the buses pulled up 30k out of town, forced the protesting drivers out, and left them with no alternative but to walk home.
Thus ended the disgruntled drivers' protest.
They duly returned to work and enjoyed zero improvement to their pay and conditions.
Life goes on....Happy Every Day!!!
Vyborg:
’After herding them all into the room the a/c was promptly shut down, the lights turned off and the doors locked.
Ten hours later they were released.‘
... because somebody forgot to turn on the showers?