Is China headed for a social 'red alert'? by Francesco Sisci

But if the Chinese government were democratic - one head one vote - it could well be more difficult than it is today to hold the hundreds of millions of peasants crowded in Henan, Hebei, Hunan and Hubei from storming the deserted west, just as American pioneers swarmed through the thinly populated prairies of the American West in the 19th century.