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"During the first phase of the Egyptian Arab Spring, Westerners usually believed that they were witnessing the rise of a powerful social movement, whereas the Chinese tended to see the collapse of a weak state".

"And there was something particularly damaging about the rituals of public violence that had become so routine. It wore citizens down: after three years, they were desensitized to the terrible things that happened in even the nicest parts of their capital."