From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power is just not working anymore
Last month’s detention of an advocate in Belarus is only the latest of many signals that people must relearn how to defend their values
By Will Hutton / The Observer
The West’s ineffectiveness in the face of the arrant use of torture, unlawful arrest, savage imprisonment without trial and flagrant abuse of international law, even close to home in Europe, is among the bleakest symptoms of our times.
The people power we saw embodied in the strikes in the Gdask shipyards in Poland, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even the Arab Spring has not presaged the new era of democracy we once hoped for.
China will continue the policy of external openness and great opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation with the countries of the world, including with Belarus, Chinese Ambassador to Belarus Xie Xiaoyong sai d at a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
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