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China Could Use Protests, Indiscriminate Attacks as Pretext to Expand Social Control: Analysts

Freedom House’s China Dissent Monitor tallied 5,343 protest events across China in 2025, marking a 44 percent increase from 2024.
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China Could Use Protests, Indiscriminate Attacks as Pretext to Expand Social Control: Analysts
Members of the People's Armed Police march in front of a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 5, 2026. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Jarvis Lim
4/10/2026|Updated: 4/10/2026
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Following a growing wave of protests and indiscriminate attacks in China, Beijing will likely respond with even harsher “stability maintenance” to prevent any challenge to its rule, experts say.

On April 4, a man allegedly stabbed multiple people in Shenyang, the capital of China’s Liaoning Province, according to footage circulating online.

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Jarvis Lim
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Jarvis Lim is a Taiwan-based writer focusing on human rights, U.S.–China relations, China's economic and political influence in Southeast Asia, and cross-strait relations.
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