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Xia Ming is correct that ethnic tensions were much milder in the 1980s PRC because the party-state had not yet frozen itself into a crackdown mode that it has maintained to significant degree ever since the violent 1989 military crackdown on unarmed protesters in Beijing and other cities.
Jan 07, 2016 03:05 PM
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