> There are not "massive uprisings" "every year" in China. At least in 2012, there were apparently 500 protests _every day_: https://www.theatlantic.com/intern

> There are not "massive uprisings" "every year" in China. At least in 2012, there were apparently 500 protests _every day_: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/how-china-stays-stable-despite-500-protests-every-day/250940/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/ho... When I was there in 2014 there was a HUGE protest in Changsha. None of these are reported in the media inside or outside China. I concede that my source on policy-making is dated, but I highly doubt the the functioning of a country as vast and complex as China can be completely transformed in forty years. Still, I'm not sure, so I emailed the author to verify.