But it may prove hard for him to find enough support for his repressive system.

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He understood that the ideology that animated them, Islamofascism, was much like those of previous totalitarians: ruthless, messianic and utterly determined to impose its repressive political system on all others, unless prevented from doing so.

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China's support for its increasingly successful and profitable artists and galleries may well be no more than a figleaf for a repressive political system, but the western art world, eager for a new audience and a new market, likes seeing red.

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