Middle East domino effect reaches China

"I'm quite scared because they took away my phone. I just put down some white flowers, what's wrong with that?" Mr Liu said. "I'm just a normal citizen and I just want peace." In Shanghai and Hangzhou a heavy police presence was also reported by online users, however there were no reports of protests in other cities where people were urged to gather, such as Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu. Despite the ineffectual nature of the call to protest, analysts said the swift reaction of the forces of control that underpin China's one-party state, demonstrated that the government in Beijing is...