Miles Yu On Taiwan: China’s lessons—and fears—from the Wagner revolt in Russia
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Miles Yu On Taiwan: China’s lessons—and fears—from the Wagner revolt in Russia

For over a century, tumultuous events thousands of miles away in Russia have impacted China profoundly. Mao Zedong (毛澤東) famously said that the cannon sound of the October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China. Now Xi Jinping (習近平) fears that last month’s Wagner revolt may provide a model for the Chinese Communist Party’s undoing.