The jasmine lesson: Reform beats revolution

SINOGRAPH The jasmine lesson: Reform beats revolution

The outcome of the jasmine revolutions two years on is a lesson to authoritarian governments - and angry populations - not yet facing similar uprisings: economic and political reform, however undesired by thuggish leaders - is preferable to upheaval that brings down old political systems, only to have them replaced by chaos or painfully rebuilt in their old forms. (Jul 31, '13)
- Francesco Sisci