Fatal Shenzhen stabbing reflects growing social instability in China

Ethno-nationalism and economic decline lead to dangerous anti-foreign sentiment

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Flower bouquets lay outside Shenzhen Japanese School, following the death of a 10-year-old child who was stabbed by an assailant in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Sept. 19. © Reuters

Karen Woods is a political commentator based in Canada and the co-founder of the Canadian Chinese Political Affairs Committee.

A 44-year-old Chinese man fatally stabbed a Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen on Sept. 18, the anniversary of the Mukden Incident -- the 1931 railway explosion in Shenyang that Japan used as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

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