In the long-term, China's censorship regime will only work to destabilize the country and discredit the government.
Together, the attacks seemed to signal that militants opposed to any kind of settlement may work to destabilize the new government.
NEW DELHI — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned on Wednesday that the interconnected extremist groups on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were working to destabilize the entire region and that "a victory for one was a victory for all".
Still, the officials seemed relieved that the comments were generally positive, especially in light of more recent statements from Mr. Karzai, like his suggestion — weeks after demanding that Special Operations forces leave an entire province — that both the American-led coandthen and Talibaniban were working to destabilize the government.
This despite a shambolic trial that dragged on for months and saw everything from pop songs to videos of sheep farming offered as supposed evidence the three men were working to destabilize the country.
In 1952, after toppling the Egyptian king, Gamal Abdel Nasser worked to destabilize all monarchs, inspiring a regicide in Iraq and eventually the overthrow of King Idris of Libya.
In this, he was being only slightly more strident than his boss, Mr. Karzai, who has also accused the United States and the Taliban of working to destabilize Afghanistan.
It continues to make trouble and work to destabilize the region.
He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West".
"For the stability of Iraq," he said "regional countries have an important role in securing their borders, confronting those who work to destabilize Iraq from within their territories, promoting religious and ethnic tolerance and developing healthy economic exchange".
