Friday Photo: China hands

BEIJING – JUNE 01: Children perform a Buddhist dance to mark International Children’s Day at the Imperial Ancestral Temple on June 1, 2007 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)

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BEIJING - JUNE 01: Children perform a Buddhist dance to mark International Children's Day at the Imperial Ancestral Temple on June 1, 2007 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)

BEIJING – JUNE 01: Children perform a Buddhist dance to mark International Children’s Day at the Imperial Ancestral Temple on June 1, 2007 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)

Sam duPont is a Master's candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and focused his capstone research on transitional democracies and elections in fragile states.

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