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So that is an example, both of wisdom in practice and the subversion of wisdom by rules that are meant, of course, to make things better.

Sanctions were being abused by some countries for political purposes, leading to the overthrow of legitimate governments and the subversion of political and economic systems of sovereign States.

In the US, the end recipients are less clear indeed, they are undisclosed. Charles Calomiris of Columbia University has challenged what he calls a real subversion of the fiscal process as funds are raised and spent in non transparent ways.

It was a fundamental principle of law that freedom came with responsibility and self determination could not be used as an instrument to promote subversion and erode the political cohesion or territorial integrity of Member States of the United Nations.

Conversely, some of China s most disturbing moves can be chalked up to exaggerated feelings of insecurity. Consider the harsh treatment of the gadfly critic Liu Xiaobao, sentenced to 11 years in prison on trumped up charges of subversion for launching an Internet petition drive championing civil liberties.

The first wrong Chinese was Gao Xingjian, a critical playwright, artist, and novelist, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000, while living in exile in Paris. The latest is Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and political writer, who was awarded this year s Nobel Prize for Peace while serving a prison sentence for subversion of the Communist regime.

On July 1, 2003, the sixth anniversary of the handover, nearly a million people took to Hong Kong s streets in a peaceful protest against an anti subversion bill that would have eroded freedom of the press, of religion, and of association. The demonstration led to a postponement of the bill, and ultimately to its withdrawal, as well as to the resignation of the Secretary for Security, who was responsible for it.

PRAGUE On Christmas Day last year, one of China s best known human rights activists, the writer and university professor Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison. Liu is one of the main drafters of Charter 08, a petition inspired by Czechoslovakia s Charter 77, calling on the Chinese government to adhere to its own laws and constitution, and demanding the open election of public officials, freedom of religion and expression, and the abolition of subversion laws.