Xi Jinping may scrape through protests with bruises: But, remember, China is not as strong as it appears


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French philosopher Albert Camus once asked, “What is a rebel?” And answering his own question, he said: “A man who says no.” When fear is gone, it marks the beginning of the fall of a tyrant. Soon the whole nation says no. And the tyrant falls. China — currently witnessing protests of the scale, intensity and magnitude not seen since the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident — looks edgy but it seems too strong to meet the challenge. Yet, what would keep people interested is the fact that tyrants, historically, look stronger than they actually are. But when the end moment...