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Powerful Patriots - Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations (Hardcover)
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Powerful Patriots - Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations (Hardcover)
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Why has the Chinese government sometimes allowed and sometimes
repressed nationalist, anti-foreign protests? What have been the
international consequences of these choices? Anti-American
demonstrations were permitted in 1999 but repressed in 2001 during
two crises in US-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were
tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in 1990 and 1996.
Protests over Taiwan, the issue of greatest concern to Chinese
nationalists, have never been allowed. To explain this variation in
China's response to nationalist mobilization, Powerful Patriots
argues that Chinese and other authoritarian leaders weigh both
diplomatic and domestic incentives to allow and repress nationalist
protests. Autocrats may not face electoral constraints, but
anti-foreign protests provide an alternative mechanism by which
authoritarian leaders can reveal their vulnerability to public
pressure. Because nationalist protests are costly to repress and
may turn against the government, allowing protests demonstrates
resolve and increases the domestic cost of diplomatic concessions.
Repressing protests, by contrast, sends a credible signal of
reassurance, facilitating diplomatic flexibility and signaling a
willingness to spend domestic political capital for the sake of
international cooperation. To illustrate the logic, the book traces
the effect of domestic and diplomatic factors in China's management
of nationalist protest in the post-Mao era (1978-2012) and the
consequences for China's foreign relations.
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