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Systematic repression is the autocratic regimes’ calling card, and the “sharp power” they generate cannot be shoehorned into the familiar and reassuring framework of “soft power.”
But the evidence suggests that the riots in Lhasa and elsewhere were an expression of Tibetan frustration at years of Chinese control and repression.
As Zimbabwe plunged into economic chaos and Mugabe stepped up his repression, circulation, once around 100,000 a day, fell by roughly a third.
And resorting to repression in Russia and Ukraine is directly counterproductive.
This is precisely what Trump does when he criticizes the repression of the Iranian regime, while failing to denounce similar practices in other countries.
The army’s repression of the Muslim Brotherhood is more a question of competition for power than of religion.
Zhang opposes the decision by many of his contemporaries (including me) to support the protests in Hong Kong, fearing that the government will resort to violent repression, as it did in 1989.
In authoritarian and quasi-authoritarian systems, the media are always viewed as a threat, if not a target for repression.
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.
Most Chinese in Australia, some of whom regard their new home as a haven from repression and corruption, have become enthusiastic Australians with a proud Chinese heritage.
As the pretext for ignoring the repression of basic freedoms, that conflict has come to be described in powerful national and religious rhetoric throughout Syrian society.
But, if despots are to be deterred from untrammeled repression, any intervention – whether military or in the form of economic and diplomatic sanctions – must meet the test of impartiality.
Under this approach, the decision to spend one’s way out of debt – using debt-financed expenditure to generate growth, thereby achieving sustainability – would come at the cost of some form of financial repression.
In all these cases, authorities have responded with repression, including the hiring of plain-clothes militias to kidnap or beat up people who attempt to publicize problems.
If abuses and repression in the provinces continue no matter how attentive the central government, or how assertive the press might have become, what then?
But Vladimir Putin, who had received an overwhelming electoral mandate to return to the presidency for a third term, was not listening; instead, he intensified repression.
In the face of repression, Internet Islam appears to speak with authentic authority.
The fact is, however, that these fanatics are a modern phenomenon, a creation of the Muslim world’s failed political systems, and a stark reminder of the price of long years of repression.
In a closed economy with capital controls, that could be achieved through many years of financial repression, with interest rates on bank liabilities kept lower than the rate of inflation.
But financial repression becomes less feasible the more China liberalizes its capital account, because investors can simply move their assets abroad.
But to achieve this result will probably require a violent repression of the political system.
At least some of these regimes will regard the Arab revolts as a warning and step up preventive repression, restrict the flow of information, or try to divert attention from domestic politics.
(Of course, no one should think that any government bonds are completely safe, particularly from inflation and financial repression.)
But repression of all Arab opposition movements by the region’s monarchs and secular dictators meant that “protection of the Mosque” became the only umbrella under which to engage politically.
But Burma’s generals will have little incentive to opt for an alternative to bloodshed and repression if China continues to provide them with support and protection against sanctions at the UN Security Council.
It allows only repression when the government faces protests and opposition outside the established channels.
For bin Laden and those who share his ideas, anger and frustration in the Islamic world stem from outside repression and exploitation of Muslims.
If the repression ends, so, too, will terrorism.
On the other hand, the idea that poverty and repression in the Islamic world are engineered from outside simply does not stand up to scrutiny.
If one cause of the repression of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is nationalism, though, the other one is the other pillar of the Kemalist ideology: secularism.
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