Egypt ≠ China's Political
A Wave of Protest currently unparalleled on the Arab world, more and more people want to part with their unpleasant authoritarian governments. If you read the relevant reports in recent days, is related to the Arab protests and more often the word China - many feel that the democratic spark could now also affect China. Yet it is not so. A correction.
First, one should compare the conditions and causes of the protests in Egypt. Here If it is not is a pure democracy movement, as is often falsely claims, but an articulation of general resentment towards the government of Mubarak. Of course, was one of the key demands of the demonstrators more political voice, but that was not the reason that at times drove more than a million people on the street. This was even more reasons such as the immensely high youth unemployment verwantwortlich. In recent decades, the population structure of Egypt has changed dramatically. Counted the Egyptian population in 1966 only 30 million inhabitants, there were 2008, 79 million - more than twice as much. This massive population growth exercised in turn from an enormous pressure on the labor market that was already full capacity. The result: massive unemployment, especially among young people. No wonder the revolution in Egypt was one of the mostly young, economically disadvantaged people.
sees in China the situation is different, however, it is believed at least the official sources. That the economic growth of China in a different league play as the Egyptian, is beyond question - hence the standard of living. As for unemployment, you can sadly only to official figures from the chines. Government support, which deliberately only the urban China's central theme room - a space that had to show in China traditionally low unemployment rates. Officially, the period from 2004 to 2010, unemployment in chines. Cities decreased from 10.1% to 4.3%. Foreign experts estimate that China's unemployment rate would amount to about 10% if one would involve the rural population in the calculations. That would be about 130 million unemployed - not even a little, but not nearly as dramatic as in Egypt.
Which brings us already talking about the next problem. Trouble spots are concentrated in rural China has always been traditionally Areas - a huge area of China in view of the mind very extensive area. A circumstance that prevents the government benefits, the geographical dispersal of the rural population but significantly the opportunity to network among government critics. Every year in various chines. Average of 70 000 villages uprisings of the local population instead, these protests, however, operate completely independently and are directed mostly against local cadres. Simultaneously, a numerical increase in protests over the last few years is recorded away, suggesting above all indicate that corruption in the country is constantly increasing. Mao Zedong had already said "A single spark can cause an entire prairie fire. " But as long as these protesters do not crosslink with each other, there is no way a wave of protests across to bring the country to roll, primarily because there have said rebellions always against the local government and not against the central government .
Finally, the communications of people in urban areas is also limited significantly. In this blog already, the sophisticated system of censorship was very
explained in detail. Freedom of expression exists only on paper in China, de facto anti-government messages, blogs etc on the internet censored immediately and the sensor of the censorship system, even penetrate well into the telecommunications sector. However, the personal contact between people is limited long standing. This is especially clear in Beijing, the cultural and political center of China. Since the trauma of Tiananmenmassakers 1989, officially at least one meeting ban exists on Beijing's streets. If you want to put words on a warm summer evening with 3-4 friends on the street and drink a beer, it will not be long until the next military police officer comes to the "Meeting" dissolve-friendly as will be noted that even in own stay at home or in the yard could.
When the Communists in 1949 as a winner against the Kuomintang in Beijing, China invaded and proclaimed one of the first concerns of Mao was to build today's Tiananmen Square before the gates of the Forbidden City. It should be a central meeting place for discussion and debate within the population and the first principle of the communist community to stress - Mao was always of the opinion that differences of opinion and open discussion that were absolutely necessary for the unity of the socialist nation strengthened. Today, this development in the complete entgegengesezte rond. True, the government is nervous, perhaps sogar in ihrer Machtbesessenheit ein wenig zu nervös. Die Berichterstattung über die Proteste in Ägypten wurde auf ein Minimum hinuntergefahren, Begriffe wie „Ägypten“ oder „Kairo“ sind bei Internetsuchmaschinen mittlerweile blockiert, Medien wurden aufgerufen nur Protestberichte der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua zu übernehmen. Die chinesische Regierung schützt ihr Machtmonopol behutsam, man weiß, dass der Staat am Brodeln sein wird, wenn das derzeit hohe Wirtschaftswachstum – der momentan vordergründige Legitmitationsgrund für die autoritäre Regierung – in einigen Jahren mal ins Stocken kommt.
Ähnlich rigoros responded to in 2009 when they finished the film avatar with a confused "performance ban. It was feared by the government that the
viewers might be reminded of the movie plots based on the authoritarian Umsiedelungspolitik the government with all their injustices and constitutional orders. Since the film, however, such a box office hit and was for several weeks in the chines. Cinemas, could ban the film completely impossible in retrospect. The solution: The film was allowed to run only in IMAX 3D cinemas in China this can be counted on two hands - a de facto ban on performance. The film was popular in China yet, it was he just sold to any third street corner as a pirated copy under the hand - the mass protests failed to materialize. Similarly, it would also now in the context of the Egyptian revolution - the framework for a nationwide uprising against the chines. Government is far from given.