Comments on: China Crime http://www.chinahearsay.com/china-crime/ China law, business and economics commentary Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: optimizing http://www.chinahearsay.com/china-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-28950 optimizing Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:00:36 +0000 http://www.chinahearsay.com/?p=505#comment-28950 Hmm.. More foreigners = more crime. Shouldn't there be a very simple solution to the crime problem ? Or, didn't crime increase ever since Mao died ? If Mao can be resurrected.. Hmm.. More foreigners = more crime. Shouldn’t there be a very simple solution to the crime problem ?

Or, didn’t crime increase ever since Mao died ? If Mao can be resurrected..

]]> By: Allroads http://www.chinahearsay.com/china-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-28945 Allroads Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:37:14 +0000 http://www.chinahearsay.com/?p=505#comment-28945 Stan, Reading this story, I can only feel that the reporter is grasping a bit to bring the story together. While in BJ, and while here, there is definately a higher risk of petty crime around the national holidays as people are making their way home, but one rarely hears of violent crimes. IN the case of kidnappings, every case I have heard to date either involved a HK/ TW manager being held for ransom or a group of foreign managers being held in a factory office as a result of employee unrest (factory closings/ potential layoffs). For those who end up in a cafe with two girls and a 1000USD pot of tea, or decided to actually temp fate with the more professional variety, that is a self inflicted wound. I won't say they deserved it, but by thinking with the little guy... they surely increased the likelihood that something was going to happen. Xi'an however was different, and I will admit that I was a bit concerned. I can only feel that the guy must have been totally out of options and this was an act of desperation... and I think this is where the questions of unemployment, inflation, equality, etc become so important. R Stan,

Reading this story, I can only feel that the reporter is grasping a bit to bring the story together.

While in BJ, and while here, there is definately a higher risk of petty crime around the national holidays as people are making their way home, but one rarely hears of violent crimes.

IN the case of kidnappings, every case I have heard to date either involved a HK/ TW manager being held for ransom or a group of foreign managers being held in a factory office as a result of employee unrest (factory closings/ potential layoffs).

For those who end up in a cafe with two girls and a 1000USD pot of tea, or decided to actually temp fate with the more professional variety, that is a self inflicted wound. I won’t say they deserved it, but by thinking with the little guy… they surely increased the likelihood that something was going to happen.

Xi’an however was different, and I will admit that I was a bit concerned. I can only feel that the guy must have been totally out of options and this was an act of desperation… and I think this is where the questions of unemployment, inflation, equality, etc become so important.

R

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