OK, so in the past few days, there has been posts on the internet encouraging Chinese citizens to protest like the Tunisians, to "take down the government".
The result was pathetic.
According to estimates, there was around 100 people that showed up to protest in Beijing. Against 300 cops waiting for them. More than 2000 people showed up in total though, but they were people and journalists there "to watch".
Around half the protesters were arrested, they were arrested not for "disrupting transportation" like what happened last time in the Tian an men square protests. Since Tian an men square can accommodate around 3000 people easily. Instead, they were arrested for littering, and creating excessive noise.
There was even traffic cops directing onlookers and reporters to parking spots.
news link:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin
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It is unclear if they were trying to protest.
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as we can see from this picture:
1 guy was arrested, the rest of the crowd was just watching
also, nothing made the Chinese news, probably because there is usually 2000 people per morning in Tian an men square to watch them raise the flag. While there was only slightly more than 100 protesters.