Word: authoritarianism
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...which authorities said undermined intellectual property laws. Within days, students compiled a 3,000-signature petition and demonstrated before visiting Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou. By Thursday the movement had spread to Taipei, where students wore yellow armbands symbolizing digital solidarity. Middle-aged rabble-rousers who once struggled against authoritarian rule were not impressed. "What are they, Black Panthers?" squawks Sisy Chen, a talk show host. "Our jobs are moving to China, we're building another nuclear plant, and they rise up for this...
...only one paying it. The dismantling of Media-Most has left Russia without any credible voice to challenge the information machine of an increasingly authoritarian government. And as Putin's grip on the media tightened last week, so did his control of Russian party politics. Otechestvo, a party headed by former Putin rivals Yuri Luzhkov and Yevgeni Primakov, announced that it would merge with the pro-Putin Yedvinstvo party in November; two more Duma factions threw their lot in with the new force, giving the government a 235-vote majority. Though the Kremlin maintains its actions are financially motivated, many...
...others are more inclined to see it as raising the danger of war as the pressure of domestic social collapse prompts Arab regimes to deflect popular anger toward the old enemy next door. And in all of the Arab states around Israel, the only plausible alternative to the current authoritarian regimes is not liberal democracy, but fundamentalist Islam...
...Though authoritarian leaders are supposed to be immune to polls and popular will, Jiang also had to worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official...
...reach, under his control. So he's been slicing away at NTV all year, using all manner of economic pressure and police investigation to erode the network's independence and bring it under the control of elements sympathetic to the Kremlin. Yet, when Putin tries to make a bold authoritarian move, he reveals himself to be an inexperienced leader with an inexperienced team, and that's landed him in a mess over...