#MeToo Comes to China

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Pity the dictators. It’s harder and harder for them to rule by terror, to make people believe in their legitimacy, and to impose a single ideology. Despite all the new technologies at their disposal—Internet espionage, censorship of social networks, and facial-recognition software—the people no longer believe. Where it is too dangerous to protest, the people […]

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