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Chinese do accept criticises, but much willingly and seriously if you give them the "face" first. Thus the classic "fist praise, then condemn" pattern of Chinese political assay.
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The average wife beater in a civilized society doesn't like to be called on it. Robert Mugabe doesn't like people to call him out on his actions either.
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To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
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