The Economist: Angry China
From The Economist this week, outstanding insight:
Popular anger, once roused, can easily switch targets. This weekend China will be commemorating an event seen as pivotal in its long revolution—the protests on May 4th 1919 against the humiliation of China by the Versailles treaty (which bequeathed German “concessions” in China to Japan). The Communist Party had roots in that movement. Now, as then, protests at perceived slights against China’s dignity could turn against a government accused of not doing enough to safeguard it.
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