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Follow us on TWITTER: twitter.com Like us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com According to a study released by Sun Liping, professor at Tsinghua University, 180000 domestic protests and riots have occurred in 2010, more than three times the tally from a decade earlier. As the National Day of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) October 1st is approaching, tens of thousands of petitioners have gathered in Beijing. The CCP authorities have been on guard and have begun large-scale arrests. Scholars and experts comment that the CCP's dictatorship and its acts of cruelty will eventually drive the Chinese masses to undertake a revolution similar to the Libyan one. The Wall Street Journal's article titled " Unrest Grows as Economy Booms ", said that the unrest isn't confined to the ethnic minority areas of Tibet and Xinjiang. Many protests stem from everyday economic injustices, including land grabs by developers, abuses of power by local officials, or unpaid wages by construction firms. Zhao Yuanmin analyzed that the CCP's policy of allowing some people to be the first to get rich, has created a crop of interest groups based solely on CCP officials. They haven't brought along other people who could get rich afterwards, but instead got involved in more and more corruptions, triggering Chinese civilians to live with hardship. Zhao Yuanmin says: "CCP's dictatorial nature shows that whatever its regime or government, both totally disregard civilians but for a handful of people. All its ...

Just over a year ago, in the midst of the stand-off among Thai government forces, red-shirted members of the United Democratic Front Against Dictatorship (UDD), and other murky actors, Thai Studies scholars at ANU gathered for 'Thailand on the Verge' [See video here: www.youtube.com to talk about the unfolding crisis in the streets. One year later, Thailand is no longer on the verge. Instead, the country appears to be reaching a political, social, historic and economic limit.There is a growing war on the border with Cambodia, the PM Abhisit government and the UDD are locked into conflict with one another, possible elections are on the horizon, and competing versions of the truth of April-May 2010 are being offered by different factions. Long-term crises -- the rise in the use of terrorist tactics and the laws to address them, economic inequality, and the precarity of ethnic minorities and migrants -- remain unresolved. In this video scholars from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the ANU College of Law discuss the political, economic, historic, and cultural limits of the present situation. Speakers: Dr Pongphisoot Busbarat, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies Dr Nicholas Farrelly, School of Regulation, Justice, and Diplomacy Dr Jane Ferguson, School of Culture, History and Language Dr Mark Nolan, ANU College of Law Dr Craig Reynolds, School of Culture, History and Language Dr Andrew Walker, School of International, Political, and Strategic ...