Word: unrested
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...Environmental concerns are a common cause of unrest in China. Last summer a handful of villages in the country's interior exploded with anger over heavy metal factories residents suspected of polluting the air and groundwater. Those protests were cases of poor residents who, having had their complaints ignored by factory managers and local officials, felt compelled to take matters into their own hands, sometimes shuttering the offending plants by force...
...potential to torpedo military relations between the two nations. Almost every other conceivable area of disagreement between China and the U.S. will have been raised during Obama's visit by one side or the other - even such highly sensitive issues as human rights and the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang province. But even if U.S. officials try to raise the issue of what they believe is a constant and growing campaign by China to infiltrate U.S. networks, steal secrets and hone Beijing's ability to wreak havoc in case of military conflict, the likelihood is that Chinese officials will simply...
...found that while his subjects earn vastly higher salaries in the cities than they do in the countryside, their material gains cannot adequately compensate for the enormous sacrifices they make. "They watch TV and see pictures of worlds they will never be part of," he says. "That can create unrest." Such is the dark side of China's boom...
...building now known as the Den of Spies. But in a square not far away, hundreds gathered to protest the government itself, clashing with police and dodging tear gas. Thirty years after Iranian students took 53 Americans hostage, U.S.-Iran relations are nearing another nadir: Tehran has blamed its unrest on Western meddling, and October's U.N.-brokered deal to reduce Iran's nuclear stockpile appears to be collapsing. Yet many Iranians no longer buy their leaders' anti-American orthodoxy. While the Nov. 4 displays of defiance were not as large as June's protests over the re-election...
...embassy takeover was not, to use an American phrase, fair and balanced. The Islamic Republic News Agency, as part of its coverage of the protests in Tehran, wrote that global news television stations such as al-Jazeera, CNN and France 24 were "seeking to create widespread unrest ... by broadcasting phony stories and images." Instead of reporting on the "epic public turnout" for pro-government rallies outside of the former U.S. embassy, foreign news reports "referred to a small group of agitators as 'the people of Tehran...