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But, as much as they aspire to a leading role on the world stage, China’s leaders want to suppress dissent even more.
Since the Middle East's autocratic regimes destroyed their liberal oppositions, in many countries radical Islamists represent the only dissent, feeding on widespread resentment of corrupt regimes, opposition to American policies, and popular fears of modernization and globalization.
There are also concerns about the suppression of dissent (often cloaked in the guise of Xi’s anti-corruption drive), the clampdown on civil society, and the repression of western China’s Uighur and Tibetan minorities.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel could not penetrate the bastion around Rice, and his dissent on policy toward Syria, which he often took directly to Obama, was not appreciated.
General Zia’s harsh version of the law in Pakistan was adopted as part of his effort to use Islam to legitimize his suppression of all dissent.
For 18 months after 9/11, he managed to suppress all dissent.
But they often crumble under the weight of internal dissent.
Specifically, any prolonged period of sub-7% growth could encourage opposition and dissent – not only in the countryside, but also in urban centers.
The trouble is that Vladimir Putin, although a graduate of Saint Petersburg University Law School, served many years in the KGB and surrounds himself with veterans of the KGB, an institution whose main domestic function was repressing dissent.
He heads one of the world's most oppressive regimes, where there is no pretense at elections and where dissent is instantly crushed.
This underlying debility has been masked by high energy prices, which, over the 14 years of President Vladimir Putin’s rule, have allowed Russia to combine the features of a kleptocracy with per capita income growth sufficient to quell dissent and create a shopping-mad middle class.
Russia's power structures, like those of America, must now be readied to conduct a very long struggle, entirely different from the old Soviet KGB way of suppressing dissent.
Such actions and attitudes amply justify my dissent of October 2004.
The AKP should take comfort in its large majority and start to view minority views and even peaceful dissent more benignly, in a way that befits a country negotiating accession to the European Union.
The history of world psychiatry is peppered with diagnoses of mental illness based on political dissent.
But, at a time of rising international tension, there is a risk that Xi’s campaign could mutate into a broader assault on political dissent attributed to “corrupt” foreign influences.
Because Marxism treats all contradictions in society as the products of a class struggle that will disappear when private property does, dissent after the establishment of communism is impossible.
If China’s development is being held back by anything today, it is the remnants of Marxism that are still visible in inefficient state-owned enterprises and the repression of dissent.
America's Fed policymakers are more likely to dissent in favor of lower interest rates when their region's unemployment rate is higher than the national average.
They are also more likely to dissent in favor of raising rates when their region's unemployment rate is below the national average.
Partisan abuse of the country's administrative structures to discourage dissent is widespread, particularly the use of tax collectors to harass opponents.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has established himself as the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, cracking down on any semblance of dissent.
Today, the ruling military junta is systematically cracking down on dissent; it has banned Thaksin-aligned politicians from entering politics, and is trying to impose a new constitution.
In India, as elsewhere, there will always be a choice between a world of edicts and crusades, where orthodoxies rule and foreign heresies are ruthlessly suppressed, and a world in which the virtues of tolerance, dissent, and cooperation are recognized and practiced.
The great stain on Meles’s record will always be his intolerance of dissent.
The oil-regimes were oppressive, quelled dissent through torture, and were venal and corrupt.
In the face of crisis, China’s leaders often overreact by repressing dissent.
Judicial decisions overturning President Donald Trump’s arbitrary travel bans in the United States, or similar rebukes of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to criminalize dissent, are examples of how institutional autonomy strengthens the resilience of democratic political systems – resilience that China lacks.
Press censorship, repression of dissent, and the absence of organized opposition allow rulers the luxury of promising whatever they want, with no political consequences for failing to deliver.
The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.
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