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...years the Chinese people have been willing to put up with an authoritarian government so long as it generated jobs and opportunities. Now, with the economy slowing, growth needs to be maintained, goes conventional wisdom, at a minimum of about 8% - in part to forestall the labor unrest that Beijing fears could spread and turn into protests against the ruling Communist Party. Despite its domestic agenda, the stimulus package has been warmly welcomed overseas, too. The day after it was revealed, share prices from Hong Kong to London surged. And by again taking action along with the rest...
...since Action Directe was smashed in 1987. "The economic and financial crisis the world is now experiencing is a dream come true to the extreme-left, especially with mainstream leftist political parties unable to mount any real opposition to ruling conservatives," Jacquard notes. "That brings the possibility of social unrest radical leftists may seek to exploit - or even provoke through violence of their...
...response could have significant implications. With up to 2.5 million migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta forecast to lose their jobs in the coming months as the worldwide economic crunch deepens and many already flooding back home to their villages, some political analysts have expressed concern that social unrest in rural areas could worsen...
...Americans are not interested in our bad guys.' SENIOR PAKISTANI OFFICIAL, saying U.S. operations are targeting only militants involved in strikes on American troops in Afghanistan rather than those causing violent unrest in Pakistan...
...keep. And Pakistanis have begun to take their anger to the streets. In parts of Lahore on Monday, scores of protesters laid siege to the local office of the electricity utility, ransacking the building and burning their electricity bills. The mounting economic crisis is likely to fuel social unrest - "The general mood is one of despair," says Yousuf Nazar, a leading economic commentator. And despair and anger among Pakistan's poor are likely to swell the ranks of the militants...