Watch China’s new weathervane

The resolution of China’s most dramatic protest of 2011 at the end of December has injected a potentially innovative influence into the frozen national political framework. This seems unlikely at first glance in view of the leadership’s perennial obsession with stability on its own terms. Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, his annointed successor, ended 2011 by backing a campaign for regimented uniformity in culture and education. Repression of the handful of active dissidents has been stepped...

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