Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:17:32:00
169 people were arrested for simply praying earlier this week. why is this happening and why now? the china scholar mingshing pei says china's leaders have reason to feel insecure. inflation is rising. there is a housing bubble. unemployment is getting higher. and beijing likes to err on the side of caution. china will have a new set of leaders a year from now. they all need to show they are tough against domestic dissent. to me it's an interesting sign of the nervousness of china's leaders and their own sense of vulnerability. looking from the outside, i don't think the chinese regime has any...