World: China quickly quashes modest “Jasmine” protests of its own
- 100+ Chinese protesters have been arrested by the government in the wake of an anonymous call for protests
- 13 number of cities where the protests were expected; police have been out in full force in each of them
- no China won’t let people talk about “Jasmine” online, and protest discussion has been prevented source
- » China doesn’t screw around: The pro-democracy “Jasmine Revolution” protests, inspired by the situations in the Middle East, haven’t drawn very large crowds. But China’s elaborate and sophisticated response has basically been designed to discourage dissent against the state, making the road the anonymous protesters took much harder than, say, in Egypt.