re: #212 Justanotherhuman

Where is our Man in China, Wheat? Is this kind of attack getting more common?

Attackers wound 6 people in an attack at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, police and state media say - @Reuters
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Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) is the third largest city in China. It looks quite modern, big and bustling with over 12M people residing within the city proper, according to the 2010 census, and up to 40M within the area surrounding it in the Pearl River delta. That’s more than 10% of the entire US population within an area of about 7,700 sq miles.

The entire Black population of the US is 39,623,138, as of 2012. factfinder2.census.gov

en.wikipedia.org

Even we lizards in China have to go to work once in a while. But I am back from teaching.

To answer your questions, jah, I live in western Hunan, which is well north of Guangzhou.

There have been several knife attacks in railway stations this year. A couple of years ago, it was knife attacks at schools. There seems to be a trend with copycat crimes here. The school incidents were by solo attackers, generally by frustrated, angry or mentally disturbed men. The railway attacks seem to be by Uyghur separatists. At least the attack in Kunming, Yunnan province, several weeks ago was. The Beijing government is trying to suppress Uyghur unrest in Xinjiang province, and the Uyghurs in other parts of China are fighting back. Or so the official word goes.

I wouldn’t say they are becoming especially common, any more than school shootings in America are common. I do tend to stay more alert in railway stations now, even in my sleepy “little” city of 300,000.