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China has been politically eventful in the last two weeks. A fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang sparked the nationwide white paper revolution protests; then less than a week later, former leader Jiang Zemin passed away. The communist Party made stability its major concern, kept Jiang's funeral simple, and loosened the COVID-19 restrictions to pacify the angry demonstrators. Yet, to symbolize national unity, it still mobilized the entire country to stage a national memorial service for Jiang.
This memorial service turned out to be a mourning show, and a political mission, as Xi Jinping stated in his eulogy: “At this very moment, everywhere in China, people in the party and government organs, enterprises and public institutions, villages, schools, troops, streets and communities all over the country, the personnel of our diplomatic and consular missions and overseas offices of all kinds, our compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and overseas compatriots, all join us in paying deep tribute to the memory of Comrade Jiang Zemin.”...