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Is political stability assured in China?

The ongoing ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang province has far more in common with last year’s unrest in Tibet than the Tiananmen Square demonstrations two decades ago. Investors will shrug it off, but should also remember that the last 20 years of stability are not necessarily a guide to the future.

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