Cueball, I think if you look at the issues identified by Chinese activists, I think you'll see they are far from Western-inspired. True, Western language like that used by the China Democracy Party gets more ink in the Western press than groups working on social/economic rights or groups inspired by their interpretation of left-Confucian ethics. But what else would you expect from the Western press?
I don't see that the government of China is about to fall or anything, but there is plenty of new activity that takes place outside the government's control. They can't even manage to suppress Falun Dafa, and through their own ham-handed actions have created a massive enemy for themselves.