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Widening Discontent Among the Party Faithful

The New York Times’ Edward Wong connects several of the year’s major stories so far, including the Southern Weekly anti-censorship protests and cases of severe air and water pollution in Beijing and elsewhere. Each of them, he argues, shows signs of dissatisfaction with “Wizard-of-Oz-style” government and a growing appetite for a political voice among China’s elites an

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