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Protestors experience force of Xi Jinping’s security machine

BEIJING – Jack Yao, a Chinese Communist Party member, never wanted to be an activist.
Having escaped rural poverty and joined Beijing’s middle classes through decades of study and work, he saw himself as a patriotic poster child of the party’s successful rule.
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