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Chinese state media on July 1 gave wide coverage to the June 30 deployment of paramilitary police in a Chinese provincial town. Police arrested more than 300 people there on charges of setting fire to government and police buildings during a June 28 riot, the South China Morning Post reported. Officers stood on corners and on side streets as police vehicles played recorded messages ordering rioters to surrender, and TV stations broadcast similar warnings.
The timeliness and detail with which the media has been able to report on the riot — in which a reported 30,000 people took to the streets to protest the alleged police cover-up of a teenage girl’s murder — would never have been permitted by Beijing just a few years ago. This incident shows that although Beijing is learning to manage the uncertainties of an information-based world, given the geopolitical realities of China’s size and history, it has yet to find a solution for controlling the periphery.
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