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The New Epicenter of China's Discontent

On August 14, about 12,000 people gathered in Dalian in a protest organized through online social networks to demand the closure of a dangerous chemical plant. The protests succeeded, and almost immediately, authorities announced the plant would be closed. In Foreign Policy, Christina Larson gives a detailed account of the protest and the events leading up to it: The former party boss whose tenure