Article: State of Fury; If the meltdown comes, it will begin in Manchuria, long a vortex of intrigue.

Byline: Stephen Glain

A senior U.S. security official on a visit to Beijing last year was having drinks with Chinese counterparts when the talk turned to rising social strife. The American assumed China's poor western provinces, plagued by ethnic and religious tensions, were the most restive. Not so, said his hosts. "Their biggest nightmare is Manchuria," says the official, who requested anonymity because he deals frequently with China. "That's where all the state-owned industries are being sold and that's where the unions are the most organized. They're in a race against time."

Manchuria is reasserting itself as China's epicenter of unrest. According ...

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