Then something startling happened: He denounced the Olympics as a feel-good whitewash on China's repressive, market-hungry government.
Most of those organizations and news media could not exist without foreign aid in this society, which is poor and repressive and whose market is distorted by foreign economic sanctions.
Once the eighth-largest economy in the world, it steadily slid through the 20th century, thanks to decades of repressive dictatorships and inconsistent market experiments.
The report raises concerns that the companies are selling Western technology on an unregulated surveillance market to repressive regimes that may use it to target activists, journalists and human rights campaigners.
As Mkandawire (2001 293) observes, "…the African state [became] the most demonized social institution in Africa, vilified for its weaknesses, its over-extension, its interference with the smooth functioning of markets, its repressive character, its dependence on foreign powers, its ubiquity, its absence, etc".
My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.
Teng Biao, a pre-eminent human rights attorney, is alarmed by Beijing's success in spreading repressive policies by flexing its market power.
Some of the most interesting new analyses of society are being produced not during individualised academic tutorials with famous professors, but as part of political struggles against the repressive exercise of state and market power (including the defunding of public universities).
The multiple assaults on rural livelihoods — from agribusiness and mining corporations, from repressive governments, and from globalized markets — have made it clear that peasants and other rural people constitute a vulnerable group, in the sense that "vulnerable" is applied in international law to indigenous peoples, women, children, the disabled, and others.
In the rest of the world, regulation and repressive taxation prevent the emergence of vibrant financial markets.
It's no coincidence, complain club owners who see themselves victimized by repressive regulators, antiquated statutes and an overheated real estate market that is pricing them out of old warehouse districts being resettled as chic residential areas.
