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Chinese Worker Demonstration Outside Honda Factory

No, “China Strikes” is not the subheading of the new Red Dawn remake.  I’m talking about the recent labor demonstrations in China that just fizzled out this morning when Honda responded by advertising open positions and getting scabs to break it up.

It’s clear this strike didn’t work.  Still, it’s a step in the right direction.  Without a middle class, and without people fighting to make a middle class living, it’s impossible for China to aspire to greater cultural achievements.  Of course, towards the end of the article it becomes clear that there’s that small problem of the state controlled media.  It’s hard to succeed with a strike when no one else knows about it.  Still, that media firewall may eventually fall too as the country and economy and people become too big to micromanage.