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March 20, 2012

Political Crisis or Civil War Will Not Stop China

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

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The country is still burdened with an immature political system. If and when China achieves the "fifth modernisation", as the dissident Wei Jingsheng once called democracy, it will have surmounted the biggest remaining obstacle to superpower status

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