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China's Risky Return to Nationalism
![undefined and Senior East Asia Analyst](https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/profiles/photos/zhixing-zhang.jpg)
Oct 18, 2019 | 09:00 GMT
![This picture shows a Chinese demonstrator throwing back a tear gas bottle during an anti-Japan protest in September 2012.](https://worldview.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/2x1_full/public/china-nationalism-display-gettyimages-152114523.jpg?itok=SANhTTOy)
Despite Beijing's apparent hand in stoking the 2012 anti-Japan protests (pictured above), the violent riots that broke out across the country spun far beyond the government's control.
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Highlights
- The Chinese government is counting on a renewed swell of nationalism to grant it the political backing it needs to resist threats to its sovereignty, including the protests in Hong Kong.
- But the Communist Party's nationalist agenda instead risks constraining its domestic and foreign policies, and could eventually become a new check on the party’s authority.
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