These days, if you're a regular citizen, even a large group of regular citizens, trying to start a violence escalation game with your government is going to get

These days, if you're a regular citizen, even a large group of regular citizens, trying to start a violence escalation game with your government is going to get you killed, and fast The most powerful militaries in the world are regularly confounded by widely dispersed rural insurgents with little more than ancient rifles. What do you think is different about China? Do you think the PLA would have fared any better in Iraq or Afghanistan? “These days” escalating violence against a government has proved to be very viable.