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7/16/2013

Topic Reading-Vol.461-7/16/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Protest prompts China to cancel Jiangmen uranium plant.
It seems that public protests have more power than ever before in some of the Arabian countries that had been or have been ruled by tyrants. But it took not only considerable time and numbers of demonstrations but also bloody fights on the streets and lives of people.
Now even in China, public protests, though still heavily curtailed, seem to have effective force to the ruling party or local governments to change their decisions.
Just about 24 hours after by a mere 1,000 protesters marched the streets of a southern city near Hong Kong, the local government announced that it would call off its ambitious project to build and operate a uranium plant.
Enjoy reading and thinking of what made the powerful ruling party make such a quick decision to back off its plan in response to such a small protest, which could set a precedent for future cases. 

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