RFE/RL has an interesting story on the rise of social unrest in China.

Scarcely a month goes by without news coming from rural China of often-violent protests by locals over corruption, land-grabs, taxation, or environmental issues. The authorities are struggling to stem this rising tide of challenges to abuses that are probably inherent in any one-party dictatorship.

It discusses in-depth a lot of the themes I went over in a post I wrote recently. With protests growing in the double-digit percentages a year, their sizes increasing, and the violence escalating, this is something that needs to be watched very carefully over the coming years. It is very possible that the China we know today may not exist within a decade.