THE COSTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA

OUT OF

THE MOUTHS

OF ...

THE HAMMER & SICKLE

DOMINATES

THE SETTING OF

THE 17th & MOST RECENT

CONGRESS OF

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY

(October 2007)

"Unrest is still imprinted deeply into Chinese society. Revolution catalyzed a new China, but society also paid heavy costs for the revolution."

This is the message not of some opposition group -- no whiff of jasmine, here, directly -- but of the March 7, 2011, editorial of the Global Times, owned by the flagship publication of the Chinese Communist regime, the People's Daily (as reported by the Washington Post).