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Though still in its infancy, the internet has shown that it has the power to shake China loose from its stagnant, isolated and repressive past.
Today, they compose 12-20% of the Crimean population (depending on who is counting); but, threatened by Putin’s repressive policies toward other Muslims, they might well renew their call for all Tatars to return.
And it has very little power when the great powers oppose an action, or repressive member governments ignore the claims of the new “responsibility to protect.”
The result “will be an information environment riddled with vulnerabilities that could be exploited by even the most repressive or dangerous regimes.”
And the Catalan government is confident that a repressive response by the Spanish authorities, reviving the images of police beating unarmed old women and teenagers that the world saw during the referendum on October 1, would pave the way for a peaceful rebellion within Catalonia and widespread international acquiescence.
It has staked its future on continued economic growth as a justification for its repressive version of "stability."
At a minimum, however, it should make it obvious that confrontational, repressive approaches to addictive disorders are very likely to make things worse, rather than better.
They should tell their representatives how many voters they have registered in each district – and they should organize to oust politicians who are brutal or repressive.
In the few instances where the US took steps to alter the behavior of repressive states, Europe's governments and peoples expressed open skepticism about the sincerity of America's humanitarian motives.
Iraq and Syria remain mired in violence and chaos;Eritrea is in the grip of a repressive regime; and Libya has become a collapsed state.
So, citizenship tests – rather than being repressive – can actually be empowering, if they make immigrants aware of rights and possibilities for participation.
The Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), largely sidelined by former President Mohammed Khatami, has re-emerged as a powerful repressive force, using plain-clothes agents, allied with the paramilitary Bassij and non-government vigilantes, to crack down on potential opponents of the regime.
Laos, Vietnam, and Brunei remain among the most repressive states in the world, with no evidence of political opening at all.
The upcoming US-ASEAN summit will include leaders – like Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for 25 years – who were previously considered too ruthless and repressive to be received by the US president on American soil.
A short list of such policies would include: carbon taxes and other measures to ameliorate climate change; more work visas to allow larger temporary migration flows from poor countries; strict controls on arms sales to developing nations; reduced support for repressive regimes; and improved sharing of financial information to reduce money laundering and tax avoidance.
After all, only the ingrained habit of playing second fiddle to the US prevents EU members from clearly and loudly distancing themselves from Israel's repressive interferences on the West Bank and Gaza, even though such a stance would help strengthen the commitment of Arab states to the coalition against terrorism as well as provide a useful shove to American diplomacy.
The lesson from Russia is that the collapse of a repressive regime does not automatically lead to the establishment of a secure open society.
In the squares of both Tunisia and Egypt, demonstrators who had felt alienated and isolated under repressive regimes were overjoyed to discover that they were not alone.
So the banks and international institutions that lent money to Mubarak should bear the responsibility of their choice to bankroll his repressive regime.
Lenders to a repressive regime will no longer expect these debts to be repaid by its successors, immediately making lenders worldwide careful about lending to them.
Repressive regimes would find it harder to borrow, which would, in turn, make it harder for them to repress their people, and make it easier and cheaper for responsible and legitimate governments to secure important funding when they need it.
Until national elections, Malaysian politics will likely get messier, and potentially more repressive.
As the most recent US National Security Strategy report put it, “A geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order is taking place in the Indo-Pacific region.”
In Zimbabwe, this right – like so many other checks and balances – has been torn away by a repressive state.
Repressive dictatorships cannot win free and fair elections.
Algeria in the 1990’s is a potent reminder of this, and Western governments do not want the vicious cycle of repressive autocrats producing violent theocrats and refugees to restart.
Frei’s death implicates the repressive apparatus that Pinochet and Manuel Contreras, his “right hand,” managed in lockstep.
Repressive regimes do not willingly abdicate power and are often abetted by business interests, both foreign and domestic, particularly in countries where resources such as oil and diamonds are at stake.
For people living under repressive regimes, outside protection is the only lifeline.
But as regrettable as the government’s repressive policies are, Turkey’s role in protecting people who have fled armed conflict and persecution is worthy of support.
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