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scape goat found handy -
China's Xi Jinping begins his most important year at his weakest pointCNN - Jan. 5, 2019"As in recent years, even the most roundabout references to the event get censors worked up and maybe even lead to arrests," Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine, told CNN. … Wasserstrom said Trump's opposition to China's economic development might be the one silver lining for Xi in a difficult situation. "Economic times are going to get tougher in China and this leads to discontent. But now there's an ability to blame a lot of those hard times on the US," he said. |