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by Undulate 4969 days ago
"politically conservative, fiscally liberal"

Fiscal politics are still politics so this doesn't make much sense, do you mean socially conservative?

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It appears to me that They're opening up their economy more to western influences, but they're trying to maintain control of their own party and keep everybody in line, similar to what Putin has done in Russia.

My theory is that as they open up more economically, the citizens will be "enlightened", so to speak, and there will be more protests. If China officials know this, they may be trying to stop this enlightenment before they're put out of power.