Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian is a journalist covering China from Washington. She was previously an assistant editor and contributing reporter at Foreign Policy.
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Actor Brad Pitt (L) and actress Angelina Jolie arrive at the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
A young woman walks in a street in Hangzhou on September 2, 2016.
Factories have been closed to ensure blue skies, potential troublemakers detained and a quarter of the residents have left: welcome to Hangzhou, a city China's ruling Communist Party is determined will look its best for the G20 summit. / AFP / NICOLAS ASFOURI / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: China-G20-diplomacy , Focus by Tom HANCOCK
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Yuriko Koike, a lawmaker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and former Defence Minister, attends the Renault General Meeting in Paris on April 30, 2013. Koike is to be appointed as member of Renault's Board of Directors during the meeting. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)
A Chinese paramilitary policeman (R) watches as an ethnic Uighur family passesby outside the Grand Bazaar in the Uighur district of the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region on July 14, 2009. A mosque was closed and many businesses were shuttered a day after police shot dead two Muslim Uighurs, as ethnic tensions simmered in restive Urumqi. AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
Chinese demonstrators march with Chinese national flags and anti-Japan banners during a protest against Japan's "nationalizing" of Diaoyu Islands, also known as Senkaku in Japan, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, on Septermber 18, 2012.Thousands of anti-Japan protesters rallied across China over a territorial row on September 18, a key historical anniversary, as Japanese firms including car giant Toyota shut or scaled back production. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)
Shunji Yanai, president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), is pictured prior to the beginning of a hearing on a high-profile protest over Russia's detention of a Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise drilling ship and its crew brought by the Netherlands in Hamburg, Germany on November 6, 2013. Moscow has sparked international protests over its heavy-handed response after two Greenpeace activists in September 2013 scaled a state-owned oil platform to protest against Russian energy exploration in the Arctic. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK LUX (Photo credit should read PATRICK LUX/AFP/Getty Images)
Villagers listen to the meeting where an envoy from the Shanwei Communist Party Committee met with Wukan village leaders, as they demand the government take action over illegal land grabs and the death in custody of a local leader on in Wukan, Guangdong on December 19, 2011. The village of around 13,000 inhabitants accuse local officials of stealing communal land without compensating them with anger boiling over with the death in police custody of a village leader tasked with negotiating with authorities over the row. AFP PHOTO/CHINA OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 08: In this handout photo provided by Disney Parks, dressed in traditional Chinese costumes, Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse acknowledge the crowd in Shanghai April 8, 2011 during the official groundbreaking ceremony for the Shanghai Disney Resort in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai Disney Resort, the first Disney resort in mainland China, is slated to open in approximately five years. (Photo by David Roark/Disney Parks via Getty Images)
LINGWU, CHINA - JULY 21: A Chinese Muslim of the Hui ethnic minority holds a meal spoon while waiting to break fast during Ramadan at Huaien mosque on July 21, 2014 in Lingwu, China, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Ningxia, the largest region with the Muslim Hui nationality in China, numbers more than 2.2 million. China has more than 10 million Hui Muslims throughout the country. (Photo by Hong Wu/Getty Images)
![Lu Wei, China's Minister of Cyberspace Affairs Administration, gestures after giving a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, in eastern China's Zhejiang province on November 19, 2014. China, which censors online content it deems to be politically sensitive, opened the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen with the country's biggest Internet companies in attendance alongside a sprinkling of foreign executives and officials. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE
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