NewsMax.com: Labor Unrest Rocks Southern China
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Thursday, July 11, 2002
A violent three-day riot of exploited workers injured dozens of migrant
factory employees in China's Guangdong province in southern China, according to
a report in the London Financial Times.
The report, cited by the authoritative American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC),
which monitors developments in Red China, revealed that the riot at the Nanxuan
Wool Textile Factory in the town of Shuikou was one of the worst incidents of
industrial unrest reported in China since the turmoil in a northeastern mining
town in early 2000.
While northeast China is notorious for its mixture of corruption, industrial
decay and flawed welfare systems, the labor situation in the booming Pearl River
delta near Hong Kong is different, the Times noted, since the area is rapidly
becoming the workshop of the world as foreign companies take advantage of a
seemingly limitless supply of cheap labor.
[...]
In other news, the AFPC reports a Reuters story that the British Broadcasting Corporation's global TV channel may be off the air in China for some time
after Beijing stopped transmission of its broadcast signal to protest BBC's news
coverage on Friday of a Hong Kong protest by [practitioners] of the [suppressed]
Falun Gong spiritual movement who were demonstrating against a visit to the
former British colony by Chinese President Jiang [...].
China cut transmission of the BBC's World Service Television channel after it
broadcast uncensored footage relating to Falun Gong, which ranks high on China's
list of banned media coverage, along with any mention of Taiwan or Tibet in ways
that stray from the Communist Party line.
AFPC says this is not the first time China has cut foreign news channels,
which are shown in the country only to foreigners who live in housing approved
by the government, and to guests in upscale hotels.
The ban comes as China seeks to move foreign TV channels onto a single
encrypted broadcast satellite, the state-owned Sinosat, which gives Beijing the
opportunity to censor foreign channels with the flip of a switch, media analysts
told Reuters.
"Our encrypted signal through the Sinosat 1 satellite was stopped by the
Chinese authorities on Monday," a BBC spokesman told Reuters. "No official
reason has been given, but we understand there was dissatisfaction with the
content of a news bulletin."
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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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