China's Land Grabs Raise Specter of Unrest
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As farmers are pitted against developers allied with local officials, peasants and other rural landowners who still make up 60 percent of China's 1.3 billion people increasingly have tried to resist.
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Villages were cordoned off and thousands of police kept watch along roads in central China on Tuesday following riots between majority Han Chinese and a Muslim minority that killed seven people and injured 42.
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BEIJING -- As police battled to suppress deadly ethnic clashes last week in central China, tens of thousands of rice farmers fighting a dam project staged a huge protest in the western part of the country. The same day, authorities crushed a strike involving 7,000 textile workers.
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Analysts fear emergency rule may be imposed as anger grows on streets and in ruling party.
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- China's media and Internet users erupted in criticism Tuesday against some small-town officials and police officers who traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest a magazine reporter who wrote critically about their local Communist Party leader.
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China faces calls to reassess its suppression of the 1989 student protests after purged leader Zhao Ziyang dies.
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Chinese who have grievances against local officials often take a course that is an age-old tradition in China: They shangfang, or travel to the capital for an audience with higher authorities.
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ZHONGMOU, China: At least 20 people have been killed in clashes between the Muslim Hui minority and the Han majority in central China&#39;s Henan province, with the area put under military blockade yesterday.
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SHANGHAI, China - Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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Rising wages on China's more prosperous eastern coast are pushing some factories inland where labor is cheap.
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China's security chief has urged officials to heed the grievances of their communities, state media reported Friday, following a series of violent protests that undermine efforts to maintain stability.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.
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HONG KONG - Hundreds of people clashed with riot police in a village in southern China, leaving some villagers hospitalized, a news report said Thursday.  Hong Kong's Cable TV broadcast footage from villagers that showed them scuffling with police in riot gear Tuesday.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday was bringing his eight-nation African tour to Zambia, a copper-rich country where China's growing clout has prompted charges of exploitation and emerged as a volatile political issue.
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Tensions rose to the surface Saturday as China and developing nations including India raised objections to a hard-fought draft agreement at a UN conference on climate change.
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Analysis: Beijing's extensive economic interest in Burma doesn't provide leverage to change the regime's behavior, but it does give China an incentive to resist sanctions. And Beijing has shown little tolerance for  mass protest on its own soil