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May 3, 2012

China's Hardliners Strike Back

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

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Chen's flight may not reverberate as deeply in China itself - dissidents are often better known and more closely followed outside the country than in - but the incident appears to have given hardliners a desperately needed issue, and the consequences for Chinese politics, US-China relations and the political fortunes of the Obama administration could be serious.

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TAGGED: United States, Barack Obama, China, Chen Guangcheng

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