Sentences with phrase «authoritarian states like»

Even authoritarian states like Russia and China have generally agreed with global warming alarmism... despite making no real improvements in decarbonization... which is somewhat astounding given their anti-western bias.

Authoritarian states like to tweak their technical infrastructure, their national laws and their firewalls to «protect sovereignty in cyberspace», as they like to say — which in practice means protecting intellectual property thieves from foreign pressure and rounding up dissidents at home.

Not exact matches

China, for example, «had everything to gain by opening up to the world» and although it sounded a tad like a Cameron cliché, one supposes he was hinting at a reciprocal arrangement: China's acceptance of free trade will offer opportunity and prosperity to all its citizens yet will equally be a sort of glasnost period where civic consciousness grows together with economic prosperity, and will thus engender reforms to the currently ossified and authoritarian Chinese state.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

You could overthrow the current democratic political process and the institutions that support / defend it and replace it with an authoritarian system where by a head of state more to your liking could be appointed.

But the converse may also be true: as more things are done for the public good, like Saving the Planet, the greater the erosion of individual liberty, and the more authoritarian the state becomes in enforcing the social order.