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Local protests

Carl Minzner of Council on Foreign Relations reported in a short and precise articles of the reasons for local protest, using the example of the province of Guangxi, where corrupt officials of the Authority for population planning through their behavior that the regulations of the central government in Beijing is diametrically opposed, have challenged the protest almost:

So how can there be such disconnect between the bright ideas coming out of Beijing and the hard reality of the Guangxi streets?

One reason is that the Central Authorities are not in full control of their country. This may seem difficult to believe, Particularly to outsiders accustomed to images of Chinese security forces dragging away protesters in Tiananmen Square. But Beijing actually has major difficulties supervising local officials.

Sure, you can demand that the local authorities meet designated birth control, tax revenue or economic development targets. But how do you supervise this? How do you ensure that local officials don't simply falsify data? Or that they don't rely on their own private goon squads to brutalize local residents into meeting whatever targets have been set?

In other countries, a range of independent, bottom-up channels help monitor and check the behavior of local officials. A free press exposes government corruption. Independent judicial institutions evaluate whether the actions of the local authorities accord with national law. Open elections allow citizens to remove officials engaged in unethical behavior.

These channels don't exist under China's one-party system. Local Chinese party secretaries exercise sweeping control over the local media, legislatures and courts.
Naturally, this breeds corruption and abuse of power. It also means that local party officials can effectively choke off information to Beijing, blinding the central authorities as to exactly how their mandates are carried out.

Some localities have degenerated into private fiefdoms run by local party officials. This has serious consequences for people whose rights have been violated by local officials. Citizens are far from passive. They resort to any and all channels to get redress - lawsuits, petitions, foreign media. But these often don't work.

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Faced with a lack of alternatives, what do people do? They riot.

Rising social unrest reflects desperation. It is also one of the few ways that ordinary citizens have to alert central officials that local authorities are engaged in widespread violations of national policies. In short, official abuses and riots in Guangxi are natural outcomes of China's authoritarian controls. If Chinese leaders are serious about addressing these problems, they need to undertake institutional reform.