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I pressed her on how the White House planned to deal with, for example, Vietnam – a country where children as young as 14 are forced to work 12-hour days, and where there is no right to free speech, no right to protest, no right to strike, and no freedom of association.
Western critics of China have every right to protest any aspect of Chinese behavior, and vice versa.
“I didn’t come here to preside over a post office,” he wrote in protest against delivering what he considered a useless note to the Yugoslavs.
They protest in the streets?
In today’s perfect storm of declining oil prices and closed political systems, a new wave of protest could well emerge, particularly where governments have not recognized that the end of rentierism marks the end of the old social contract.
The move was met with howls of protest from those who argue that the entry of large hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Walmart will devastate the small shops that currently dominate India’s retail sector.
No one was happy, and political protest movements gained strength everywhere, including in Germany, where the right-wing, anti-euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was born in February 2013.
This makes one doubt that hostility to mass immigration is simply a protest against job losses, depressed wages, and growing inequality.
Could there be a better place to do business, build stadiums and skyscrapers, or sell information technology and media networks than a country without independent trade unions or any form of organized protest that could lower profits?
Moreover, not all protest parties reject the EU.
The anti-austerity protest vote is strongest where governments have been unable to implement reforms effectively (for example, in Greece), in contrast to Portugal and Spain, whose economies are recovering on the back of strong exports.
The deeper roots of the surge of Euroskeptic and other protest parties originate with the general dissatisfaction with the state of the economy and dysfunctional national political systems.
What has taken the form of an anti-EU vote constitutes in reality a protest against socio-economic problems at home.
The day after Trump’s inauguration, women led what is estimated to be the largest single-day protest in US history.
Despite French voters’ rejection of a new constitution for the European Union in 2005 (in part a protest vote against Chirac), all three candidates recognize that the EU has been an important means to enhance French power in world affairs.
Thousands will protest for human rights issues, women rights issues, gay rights issues, workers rights issues, ecological rights issues, anti-war issues, Tibetan rights, and a myriad of other concerns.
Those who dare to protest, such as Beijing University journalism professor Jiao Guobiao, are silenced.
Likewise, protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, aimed at raising awareness of – and ultimately reforming – the culture of finance, have delivered mixed results.
China has also summoned Indian Ambassador Vijay Gokhale to register a formal protest.
In Syria, it seems inevitable that protest may soon crack the regime’s brittle political immobility.
No one wants to see the streets of Damascus consumed in protest, or a violent confrontation erupt between protesters and security forces.
The new issue of Charlie Hebdo, which featured another image of the Prophet on its cover, sparked protest marches in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Tunisia.
There is also the risk that the Games will become a political circus, as the international spotlight generates irresistible opportunities for public protest.
We cannot predict when or where, but sooner or later there will be an explosion of protest, whether violent or taking the form of organized support for political parties espousing radically different policies.
But when Mikhail Gorbachev refused to support a German crackdown, a mixture of overwhelming public protest and government bungling brought down the Berlin Wall.
Likewise Trump was not elected as the candidate of a grassroots protest movement of the white working class; he represented a very established party and received the blessing of Republican heavyweights such as Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich.
Fundamentalism is thus not a protest by original cultures under threat; it reflects these cultures' disappearance.
Soros was also supposedly behind the sexual-assault survivors who confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator to demand an investigation into the Kavanaugh accusations, just as he orchestrated the Women’s March, a worldwide protest held the day after Trump’s inauguration.
He was even pulling the strings when the NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem to protest police violence against black people.
Largely unanticipated protest movements in Turkey and Brazil have raised questions about the economic and social sustainability of emerging-market growth.
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