Mike Heath

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When anyone protests the Iranian regime’s extrajudicial murders, the Iranian mullahs shout “sovereignty.” When anyone objects to the Chinese government’s repression of the people of Hong Kong, China too talks about “sovereignty.” When anyone quotes the famous phrase from Article I of the UN declaration—“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”—authoritarian advocates of sovereignty dismiss such language as evidence of Western imperialism.
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
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