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China's Response to Xi Jinping's Market Opening

In dictatorships where liberalization and growth have produced a middle class, the regime's first response is to maintain its hold on power. In South Korea and Taiwan, economic liberalization led to calls for greater political freedom but repression did not work. Why has Xi Jinping's campaign of repression worked in China? The answer lies in a brilliant 2021 essay by China's column Mingxing Pei.

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