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Massoud Hayoun is a NorthAfrican American writer and speaker on Middle East, NorthAfrican and Chinese affairs. He has written for The Atlantic, TIME Magazine and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
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With deep uncertainties looming in the future for the stability of China's rise, it seems some in Beijing have forgotten the foremost lesson of Deng Xiaoping's development project.
