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China: A Year of Tumult and Hope

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China: A Year of Tumult and Hope
Protesters shout slogans during a protest against China's strict zero-COVID measures in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Anders Corr
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The latest tumult from China is a microcosm of the past year. The People’s Liberation Army attacked across the de facto border into India and swarmed the Philippine Islands. Chinese leader Xi Jinping supposedly ended strict COVID-19 lockdowns because of the biggest protests since Falun Gong protesters surrounded the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Zhongnanhai leadership compound in 1999.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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