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What if Hu Yaobang isn't discredited and lives longer, leading to a more sympathy for the Chinese Democratic movement? In the mid 1980's there was some talk in China of the 'Fifth modernization' of Democracy, and it had some sympathy in the government. If some disastrous student protests don't go as IOTL, the government might also be more sympathetic. What would be the effects of China becoming more democratic in the early 1990's?
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