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The decision triggered a severe response from China, where students held demonstrations against his visit.
And it was to Russia that Yanukovych turned when, after months of peaceful demonstrations in Kyiv, violence broke out and demonstrators were killed, spurring him to flee Ukraine.
But China’s government has tried to block any news about the Hong Kong democracy demonstrations from reaching the rest of the country – not exactly a sign of confidence on the part of China’s rulers in their system of authoritarian government.
This tale is further underlined by the growing role of "the street," of demonstrations of public irritation focusing on particular issues but really directed against unchallenged governments.
Indeed, amid the orchestrated anti-Japanese protests in China in September, Panetta – instead of advising China to rein in the often-violent demonstrations – publicly reiterated America’s neutrality in the struggle over control of the islands.
So far, China has not unleashed the sort of mass demonstrations against Japan and others that it has used in the past to convey its displeasure.
WASHINGTON, DC – As pro-democracy protests sweep the Arab world, Belarus, Europe’s grim quasi-Soviet redoubt, has taken a turn for the worse since President Aleksander Lukashenko violently suppressed post-election demonstrations in December and imprisoned seven of the nine candidates who stood against him.
By contrast, the unions argue that they have “social legitimacy,” a claim that may surprise many outside France, but that holds considerable sway in a country where large-scale demonstrations or drawn-out strikes are interpreted as a valid representation of popular will.
One got a sense of this when China’s reputation and the Games’ status came under attack during the Tibetan demonstrations and protests against the Olympic torch as it made its tortured progress around the world.
Markets will remain skeptical, especially if implementation leads to street demonstrations, riots, strikes, and parliamentary foot-dragging.
To be sure, the regime considers Ai’s arrest a preemptive measure to prevent the outbreak of public demonstrations.
Paradoxically, too many Syrian civilians have been tortured, wounded, and killed to stop the demonstrations seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.
This potential was evident during the Arab Spring uprisings, when women, empowered by recent advances in literacy and education, organized and led demonstrations that toppled decades-old regimes.
Recent demonstrations in Tel-Aviv against returning the Golan marked the beginning of a campaign that will shadow the negotiations with ever greater force the more the negotiations seem capable of bearing fruit.
In Hungary, the main opposition party Fidesz organizes demonstrations in front of Parliament for the resignation of a government, even after it won a confidence vote.
But demonstrations against whom?
Smarting from a loss in a tainted election, Albania’s political opposition, obdurate and un-comprising, is boycotting the country’s parliament and holding weekly demonstrations at a time crucial to Albania’s EU-accession bid and its handling of a falling economy.
The regime is now hunting down those who participated in the demonstrations and committing unspeakable acts of violence.
That is what the demonstrations were about.
Indeed, he described sitting on the back of a motorcycle with a stick to command police forces to suppress the massive demonstrations.
The acquittal by a US military court of two American soldiers who accidentally killed two Korean schoolgirls with their armored car last June triggered street demonstrations across the country.
The Procés Constituent – the Catalan independence movement that was launched in 2013 – claims that its only tactics are mass demonstrations and civil disobedience.
Thailand’s political impasse, amid massive anti-democracy demonstrations, has hit world headlines, and elections have also been violently contested in Bangladesh.
The action, purportedly undertaken to reduce the prospect of landings and demonstrations by Japanese right-wingers, set off a brief, though frenzied, reaction in China, as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Demonstrations in Cyprus in March 2013 included banners bearing caricatures of Merkel done up as Adolf Hitler.
The ongoing drama of mass demonstrations, violence, torture and repression that followed June’s fraudulent election has exposed a fundamental conflict within the Iranian power elite about the basic course of the Islamic Republic.
In our increasingly Hobbesian world, demonstrations of conventional strength are needed.
This "French exception" also includes vested interests like the railways and agriculture, sectors so powerful that any attempt at reform is immediately frozen by street demonstrations.
One ploy taken up by some members of my Transnational Radical Party in France, Belgium, the UK, and Italy has been to "denounce themselves" to their national authorities and then to disobey the prohibitionist laws by distributing drugs to passers-by during political demonstrations.
But a crackdown on the current demonstrations could turn Chinese hardliners’ unfounded accusations that the protesters are advocating separatism into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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