During the 2008-2010 period in China, there was an incredibly vibrant civil society with a lively internet, protests, entrepreneurs and human rights lawyers meeting in salons to discuss democracy, with entrepreneurial groups visiting Taiwan to observe Chinese democracy, and approximately 180,000 protests in 2010 around issues like environment and pensions, along with non-party-affiliated individuals running for local elections.
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“You had uh entrepreneurs and human rights lawyers and um scholars meeting in these salons to talk about the future of democracy in China. Uh you had, you know, a big entrepreneur taking a group of other entrepreneurs to Taiwan to show them what a Chinese democracy could look like. Um I I think there was a lot of and you know you had what was it the count I think in 2010 was 180,000 protests right in China”
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Breaking The Engagement: How China Won And Lost America | Hoover Institution— Hoover InstitutionCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:09:14 AM
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