Reason Number 29 - Blue China Crime
Rabu, 27 Agustus 2008
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‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 55
"Shanghai is remarkably safe. The Shanghainese are still the ‘special ones’ of China. They still get the added respect from criminal elements from other parts of China that affords them an additional layer of protection, something the folks in booming cities like Shenzhen across from Hong Kong no longer have. In Shenzhen if they want your purse but you hang onto it too tightly, they might just cut your arm off.
But even as residents here in Shanghai for over 20 years, the authors have not been touched by it, or even really seen it. Sure, a pick pocketed wallet and a pinched mobile, both lost more from carelessness than to an exercise of someone’s criminal ability. But real crime? Best to watch the late night local TV news to see that.
But the bad guys are coming sure enough. And the young ones are in training.
Blue (collar) China Crime forms the most fearful element of the 4th Army of Instability. In the end, the White and Red elements of the 4th Army may cause more financial long term harm, but it is the physical nature of the Blue Army that paralyzes most people with fear."
Shanghai is indeed a point of relative calm in China. Rich city, there is less of the desperate crime of the provinces. Closest I ever came to crime was getting my pocket picked, and pretty ineptly at that. I was with Gloria, taking her to the Shanghai railway station to see her off on her journey back home at Lunar New Year. The crowds were intense, as always, but I was paying a modicum of attention and I felt a hand slide into my pocket. I grabbed that hand, and with it a youngish boy of 14 or 15 or so. And, having caught him, had little idea of what to do with him. But Gloria was in a hurry to get her train, and urged me to let him go. That’s what I’d have done anyhow, I guess, for I would not leave him to the care of the coppers and, besides, I am sure he had few options but to be a pickpocket, China being what it is.
But often I think if China had the crazy level of gun ownership of the United States, Shanghai crime would be a different story. You only have to look at the city’s drivers to see that – the anger, the mad, enraged, passionate anger that most all drivers show a dozen times a day is evidence enough; these are guys who, armed, would leap from their cars and shoot each other dead over the most trivial incident.
But often I think if China had the crazy level of gun ownership of the United States, Shanghai crime would be a different story. You only have to look at the city’s drivers to see that – the anger, the mad, enraged, passionate anger that most all drivers show a dozen times a day is evidence enough; these are guys who, armed, would leap from their cars and shoot each other dead over the most trivial incident.
‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 56
"China, a country that often professes its modesty, its calmness, has its own demons to slay. Rapidly following the path of developed countries, China’s list of serial and mass killers grows ominously.
In southwestern Guizhou Province in November 2006, a magistrate, Wen Jiangang, his wife, his son, his sister-in-law, his mother-in-law and even his nursery maid were all murdered. Police rapidly arrested 42-year-old Cao Hui, announcing he had murdered Wen and his family purely for money. Yet other swirling rumors suggested that since Wen had been in charge of closing down illegal mines in the area, it might have been resentful mine owners who arranged his killing. The same month that Wen was killed also saw the murder of a restaurant owner and three of his relatives in Dongguan city in Guangdong Province.
The month after, December 2006, saw the murder of a family of five in southern Guangdong Province’s Foshan city. Also in December 2006, another magistrate, Chen Yiming, was murdered along with his wife, seven-year-old grandson and housemaid in northwest Gansu Province. Another family of six was murdered in southern Guangdong Province in May 2007. After taking the contents of the safe the burglars killed everyone present, including four children, the youngest of whom was four years old.
According to Ministry of Public Security spokesman Yu Xinmin, mass killings in 2006 were 63% lower than in 2005. In the same report, a professor at the Chinese People’s Public Security University, Li Meijin, said that 'In a big country such as China, 10 mass murders a year is relatively low.'
With the acceptance of such figures, does this mean that mass-murder is a tradition in China?"
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Judul: Reason Number 29 - Blue China Crime
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