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This logic doesn’t pass the smell test. It’s not any less illegal to protest your regional government than the central Chinese government.
by janalsncm 4y ago
This logic doesn’t pass the smell test. It’s not any less illegal to protest your regional government than the central Chinese government.
- roywiggins 4y agoThere was (is?) a whole thing where local governments would kidnap people trying to petition the central government to crack down on some local government wrongdoing. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/world/asia/chinese-petitioners-suffer-regular-abuse-group-says.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/world/asia/chinese-petiti...
- krainboltgreene 4y agoIt's weird to read pieces like this from the NY Times when I watched it happen in Portland and the same media basically brushed it off.
- muglug 4y agoYeah, but it's easier to complain about a different region's government.