China ‘faces mass social unrest’

Rising unemployment and the economic slowdown could cause massive social turmoil in China, a leading scholar in the Communist Party has said.

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"The redistribution of wealth through theft and robbery could dramatically increase and menaces to social stability will grow," Zhou Tianyong, a researcher at the Central Party School in Beijing, wrote in the China Economic Times. "This is extremely likely to create a reactive situation of mass-scale social turmoil," he wrote. His views do not reflect leadership policy but highlight worries in elite circles about the impact of the economic slowdown. More...

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