Lessons from Tiananmen and the Arab Spring

Corruption, pollution and the real estate sector could lead to more social unrest in China, a Singapore investors' conference heard on the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen.

Victoria Park on Wednesday night

Chris Dodd Suzy Waite

June 04, 2014

Twenty five years on and the protests in China continue but the emphasis is a little different to that which brought the students to Tiananmen Square in 1989.

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