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Analysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots

Jul. 14, 2009
Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China. In the most recent case, more than 180 people died in...
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