CHINESE OFFICIAL DISMISSES "JASMINE" PROTEST CALLS
Chris Buckley
Reuters, February 24, 2011
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will not succumb to the kind of unrest rocking authoritarian governments across the Middle East, a senior official said, though a rash of detentions and censorship suggest Beijing remains nervous.
The comments by Zhao Qizheng, former head of the government's information office, were Beijing's most senior public response so far to online messages urging "Jasmine Revolution" protests.
So far, protests in China have been small and overwhelmed by swarms of police.
"There won't be any Jasmine Revolution in China," Zhao said, according to a report Thursday in the Wen Wei Po, a Hong Kong-based newspaper under mainland Chinese control.
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