Why Should We Care About Rising Dissent in China?
About This Episode
Ray and Jim speak with Kevin Slaten, who leads Freedom House’s China Dissent Monitor, on the rise of protests across China, examining labor unrest, housing disputes, rural land conflicts, censorship, state responses to dissent and what more than 15,000 recorded protest cases reveal about social and economic pressures beneath Beijing’s official narrative.
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