Source: Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times.
Reporting from Beijing —With a wary eye on popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Chinese leaders are calling for new ways to defuse social unrest in what appears to be an ominous harbinger of tighter controls on the Internet and elsewhere.
Splashed across the front page of Monday’s People’s Daily newspaper were highlights of a speech given by President Hu Jintao at a Saturday meeting that included all nine members of the Politburo’s standing committee and senior cadres from around the country.