What will happen when the economy tanks? What will the governmetn response be? Read this excerpt from that article, and this is for living Chinese citizens and real people (not impersonal foreigners invested in some crashing market):
Police refused to say why they sealed off the site: "We're just following orders from above," one officer said, refusing to elaborate.
Until this week, journalists were free to interview parents who held protests and erected homemade memorials at collapsed schools, with many angrily accusing the government of corruption.
But police ordered a half-dozen reporters to stop filming and conducting interviews at the Juyuan school Wednesday. The group was placed on a bus and sent back to the capital of Sichuan province, Chengdu, an hour's drive away.
Parents said the school had been sealed off since Monday, when dozens of families turned their anger on the school principal, who made a rare appearance surrounded by security officials but didn't address the crowd.
Even at a collapsed rural school that had received little media attention, a Chengdu propaganda official stopped two journalists and asked them to leave. "For your safety," Xu Guangjun said.
