Do anti-regime movements in a dictatorship affect financial markets?

Abstract

China’s economy has grown rapidly in the past few decades. Some economists and investors even believe that this growth may result in China overtaking the United States as the world’s hegemon in the near future. However, recently there have been several anti-regime movements in China and its surrounding regions, which some hypothesize could pose major issues for China’s economic growth moving forward. This paper will help identify these past regime movements and how they have continued to affect the financial markets.