Peasants fighting back in rural China

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It also takes some pretty hardcore and brainwashed government soldiers to fight their own countrymen.
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Not really. China is a big country and very diverse and not everyone really gets along.
 
Especially when the people attacking the farmers are hired for their willingness to attack the farmers... You can always find then in any country in any time.
 
Especially when the people attacking the farmers are hired for their willingness to attack the farmers... You can always find then in any country in any time.
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Hired? I didn't read the article since I didn't want to register, but my impression was military service was mandatory?
 
Same stuff used to happen in the Evil Empire before it fell. NKVD/KGB units used to have attached artillery and IFVs/AFVs, not to fight the running dog capitalists but their own subjects.

Skunky, may not be PLA (I would speculate if PLA no one would be left alive). May be the hired thugee units of the CPPRC brought in from other areas. Like you said, all is not puppy dogs and rainbows between different peoples of PRC. :uhoh:
 
El T, I thought all Chinese people were the same? :evil:

What thug units? I was brought up with anything wearing green and red star is not to be trusted...PLA conscript or state security or customs agent.

Skunky
[of the rice and banjopickin' variety from the Pearl River delta...reeehawww!]
 
Not really. China is a big country and very diverse and not everyone really gets along.
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You can say that again. I think I can echo Skunk's premise here. China is very diverse; from the northwest regions to the southeast you have a wide amount of history, culture, language, and wealth. Outside of the cities, it can be a very different place. Chinese here in the US come from even diverse backgrounds. I think people should consider traveling there... if you are the traveling type. Also makes you value more the liberties we have here in the USA.

Many Chinese US side don't care for communists. Myself included.
 
Many Chinese US side don't care for communists. Myself included.
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Yeah, else we woulda stayed huh? ;) Grampa reaved on a jet prane back in 1947 or so. Actually it was a prop job.
 
And when you have the military doing riot control in American cities, that'd be the time to wake up and realize it ain't America anymore!
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Then we should have woke up many, many years ago. Anybody here remember the 60's?
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You don't even have to look back that far. The reserve was called in during the LA riots. That was one time when I said to hell with the CCW laws in CA.

One of the most amusing stories I heard out of that episode was that the LAPD guys asked the Marines to "cover them" as they went to a building. So of course some guy takes a shot at the cops and the Marines opened fire. They had not explained that "cover" meant being prepared to shoot someone if they presented a threat, not laying down cover fire like in a combat situation. :p
 
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