In the 2008-2010 period, China exhibited an incredibly vibrant civil society with an internet alive with protests, entrepreneurs, human rights lawyers, and scholars meeting to discuss China's democratic future, with approximately 180,000 protests in 2010 around issues like environment and pensions, and individuals unaffiliated with the party running for local elections
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“you saw in China an incredibly vibrant civil society, right? An internet that was alive with protests. You had uh entrepreneurs and human rights lawyers and um scholars meeting...the count I think in 2010 was 180,000 protests right in China around issues like the environment um and pensions”
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Breaking The Engagement: How China Won And Lost America | Hoover Institution— Hoover InstitutionCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:24:14 AM
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