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“New Authoritarianism” The Path to Reform?

As part of its “Southern Legacy” coverage of the 20-year anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s famous “southern tour,” a Monday Global Times opinion piece assesses the future direction of political reform in China: Most intellectuals in China today are not the same as those radicals in 1989 who clamored for the adoption of a Western style political system, but instead fully recognize