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China’s leaders recognize that their policy options are limited: business as usual, repression, or reform.
If social tensions rise, China’s government is likely to respond with greater repression, which will bode ill both for its relations with the West and for its medium-term political stability.
The so-called “Yarovaya law,” signed by Putin last summer, takes this repression several steps further.
Yet any outcry has been muted; in fact, few are discussing the repression at all.
Since then, governments across the region have resorted to crude repression to keep public discontent and political opponents at bay.
The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.
But, after decades of bloodshed, repression, and criminalization, things have begun to move in the right direction.
Saddam's Stalingrad StrategyExpert in internal repression but utterly incompetent in military strategy, Saddam Hussein thinks that he can fight and win.
Such policies, known as financial repression, usually involve a strong connection between the government, the central bank, and the financial sector.
But heavy-handed police repression launched a massive civic movement that has spread to the entire country.
Even more widespread than indirect repression is the corrupting pressure of government money.
In China and India, savings are going into home purchases, because financial repression leaves households with few other assets that provide a good hedge against inflation.
Dozens of ethnic minorities live in China, where Muslim Uighurs, in particular, face official repression.
Repression and fear alone do not explain it.
Resistance to the suspension of basic liberties has been minimal, as media are heavily controlled and civil society has been emasculated through repression and the consequent climate of fear.
Today, this requires opposition to any Mubarak-style repression of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The intervention had its low points, perhaps none lower than the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, which was misidentified as a building that housed Serbian security assets – instruments of repression against Kosovo.
Islamization was the main tool of repression, in particular the imposition of Sharia law.
The result is the first signs of serious public discontent with the regime since the violent repression of the Green Movement in 2009.
At the same time, however, problems like corruption, inequality, environmental degradation, official corruption, and repression of political dissent and religious expression have worsened.
At that point, targeting rivals and dissenters may no longer be enough;Putin would have to resort to Stalin-style mass repression instead.
The roots of failure lie in the US and Israeli governments’ belief that military force and financial repression can lead to peace on their terms, rather than accepting a compromise on terms that the Middle East, the rest of the world, and, crucially, most Israelis and Palestinians, accepted long ago.
For years, this pact had underpinned Italian-style financial repression, whereby risk-adverse savers traded safety, implicitly assuming that banks could not fail, and accepted relatively low real returns.
Over the years, regulatory lapses, lack of board independence, and a good dose of financial repression turned many banks into channels to fund family members, friends, and political associates.
For its part, Russia has ruthlessly strived to recover its lost continental empire, be it through the brutal repression of Chechnya, the 2008 war in Georgia, or the current assault on Ukraine.
In fact, the crackdowns only strengthened the conservative Islamists, whose faith helped them survive the repression.
For example, China tried to enhance its soft power by successfully staging the 2008 Olympics, but its domestic simultaneous crackdown in Tibet – and subsequent repression in Xinxiang and arrests of human rights lawyers – undercut its gains.
The most successful development stories in economic history – Japan and South Korea – featured significant domestic financial repression and capital controls, which accompanied several decades of rapid growth.
National leaders maintained control through repression and used Islamic opposition parties as scarecrows to avoid political reform.
These problems were simmering beneath the surface of autocratic repression for decades.
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