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If Chinese officials don’t move faster to channel popular grievances and head off potential sources of disaffection, they could eventually be confronted with an uprising of their own – an uprising far broader and more determined than the student protest that they crushed in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
For example, David Horowitz, who accuses me of being “the Lenin of the anti-American conspiracy,” is a former Trotskyite for whom opponents are never adversaries to be debated, but rather enemies to be crushed.
In 2015, the Greeks staged a rebellion, which Europe’s establishment ruthlessly crushed.
Crushed by the bands and wheels of military vehicles, explosions of bombs and mines, and digging of trenches and walls, the desert's crust is broken and the fine sand particles beneath it are exposed to the wind.
Here an irony intrudes: under socialism private markets were crushed by the state; under capitalism, markets function well only when the state provides a nourishing legal/institutional environment.
Together with the battle over the Taliban’s future role in the country, the struggle for power in 2014 could reanimate divisions that take the country back to the brink of a wider civil war, with the liberal technocrats of Kabul crushed between a resurgent Northern Alliance and a wider “Pashtun Pact.”
No one cares whether they are humiliated or crushed under foot (as the seeds were allowed to be at the exhibition’s opening).
Unfortunately, Ai has become one of the seeds, his freedom crushed by the heel of an inhuman state.
That is the other lesson that Ai wanted his audiences to understand, and it is why his spirit and message cannot be crushed: there are 1.3 billion seeds with him.
Indeed, Russian civil society and protest movements are more assertive and politicized, while protests in China are crushed without remorse.
To set the Jasmine Revolution in historical perspective, we must recall June 4, 1989 – that pivotal Sunday when the Poles voted the communists out of power and, at the other end of Eurasia, the Communist Party of China crushed a burgeoning democratic movement on Tiananmen Square.
Civil society has been crushed and the middle class decimated--thanks in no small part to the UN-led economic sanctions that have been enforced since 1991.
If we fail to raise that money, the hopes and ambitions of millions of children are certain to be crushed.
The rebellion was crushed.
The personal charm of the Dalai Lama, combined with the Himalayan air of superior spiritual wisdom, has promoted a caricature of a mystical, wise, and peace-loving people being crushed by a brutal empire.
As Russia struggles to bring Ukraine back into its orbit, another ancient date looms large: 1709, when Czar Peter the Great crushed the Swedish and Cossack armies at the Battle of Poltava.
When Saudi-led forces crushed Shia protests on the island in 2011, the Obama administration rebuked Bahrain’s leaders and curtailed arms sales.
The second myth dispelled by China’s rapid growth is that economic liberalism eventually breeds political liberalism.Recall that in 1989, just months before Western liberal democracy appeared to have triumphed over Soviet communism, China crushed a student revolt in Tiananmen Square, killing some 10,000 of its own citizens.
Instead, it was the small and highly professional Egyptian army that crushed the uprising, to the dismay of the young officer corps, who were already well advanced in their plans to seize power.
Revenue from such bonds could be used to expand public works, allowing the government to act as a lender of last resort, while supporting the construction industry, which in many countries was crushed after 2008 by imploding real-estate bubbles.
So shocking was Trump’s behavior that some senior European officials now wonder if US allies should form an independent middle-power alliance, lest they be crushed between the rocks of a rising China and a declining America.
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn – often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.
And yet, since Koestler was right, these emotions could not simply be crushed.
(Instead, they were crushed by a military coup, before a second round of elections could take place, triggering a brutal eight-year civil war in which an estimated 200,000 people died.)
The Internet-inspired uprisings in Iran and then in much of the Arab world were brutally crushed.
As he put it, “Germany is a great people that triumphed, and then was crushed.
France is a great people that was crushed, and then associated itself in Vichy with the triumph of another.”
But, during the same year in China, protesters in Beijing were crushed by troops from Inner Mongolia who didn’t understand Mandarin and had no sympathy for big-city dwellers.
He did not have much to say about the countless real human beings who would be vaporized, crushed, baked, boiled, or irradiated to death if a nuclear war ever erupted.
And it was at this point that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund – with their “extend and pretend” approach in jeopardy – crushed the “Greek Spring” and forced yet another unpayable loan on a bankrupted country.
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