The village resident said by phone Saturday that paramilitary police were patrolling Wukan's streets and guarding buildings including the police department, but that shops were open and daily life was carrying on as usual. Another standoff would pose a test for Hu Chunhua, the current Guangdong party secretary and one of the Communist Party's brightest up-and-coming stars. The peaceful resolution of the 2011 standoff amounted to a career boost for Wang, the Guangdong provincial boss who was elevated to the Politburo in 2013 and made vice premier. A resident from Wukan village in Guangdong province said that police swept in late Friday night to surround sensitive government buildings and take away the village's democratically elected leader, Lin Zuluan, who had planned protests Saturday against illegal land grabs. BEIJING (AP) " Police have locked down a village in southern China to ward off fresh anti-corruption protests nearly five years after an uprising there made it an internationally known symbol of grass-roots defiance against the ruling Communist Party.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 18, 2016 07:18 UTC