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FOR ethical reasons, I try not to appropriate in this column anybody else's work in place of my own. But today I am compelled to quote Viswa Nathan's article in Asia Sentinel on May 24 for two reasons.

First, Viswa Nathan is a highly respected independent journalist, and second, he is saying something nobody else, myself included, has said before.

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