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NYT: China’s Faltering Security Forces
By Paul Midler | March 24, 2008
In the comment section on a recent post, we suggested that events in Tibet revealed an amount of ineptitude among Chinese leadership.
I suspect that patience has been confused with indecisivenesses. When Beijing made its move, it made its move all right. There is nothing subtle about military force.
The New York Times ran a piece that is worth a look.
The absence of police officers emboldened the Tibetan crowds, which terrorized Chinese residents, toppled fire trucks and hurled stones into Chinese-owned shops. In turn, escalating violence touched off a sweeping crackdown and provided fodder for a propaganda-fueled nationalist backlash against Tibetans across the rest of China that is still under way.
Topics: China |
March 24th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
The problem for the Tibetans is that they are largely located within certain geographic areas and when they begin rioting, a huge military machine can easily march in and squash it. The same was true in 89 with the Tiananmen situation. Too localized…like shooting students in a barrel. If the 89 demonstrations were “city-wide” they probably would have succeeded, as the number of military might to clamp down the entire city would have taken weeks to mobilize…
March 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’m sure the PSB at the local level were cowering under their desks when the whole thing flared up until the WuJing commanders with their properly riot geared reinforcements came thundering in with the mandate from heaven to crush the pukes of the “Dalai clique”…
It will forever be a Chinese organizational clusterf**k situation at the local level until they get their asses booted by the big boys.