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Amanpour
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China's One Party Let in a State
China is a one party let in a state. There's a party that precedes the state both legally and historically. Most autocracies are places where some leader or party took over a state. Well the party was here and created the state. So this party is dedicated to mobilize the society of what it considers to be national aims. That means that it must monopolize all organizational capacity in society. Now I organize lectures in Shanghai. I'm a tiny bit of a civil society. I'm not too threatening to the state. But now I've been told, you know, I should lay low for this week before the party Congress.
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