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China protests test the limits of Xi Jinping’s authority

The Rachman Review

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Student Demonstrations on Chinese Campuses

Yuan Yang: China's biggest political movements have come out of its student campuses over the last 100 years. He says that comparison is not lost on the party, it's wise. Most careful to try to stamp out protests on campus because it sees the capability they have for sparking huge movements in China. The students at Qinghua, for example, in Beijing have been told by their teachers that they can go home early.

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