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short term, long term Camilla Send a noteboard - 09/10/2010 04:48:54 PM
I bet China is pissed off now, and I kind of like that.

What worries me is that the main result of this is that China will clamp down harder in dissidents in response.


Yes. I hope that the short term worsening will in fact lead to a long term benefit, though. More obvious brutality leads to more opposition. We'll see.
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