This theme of apparent Pakistani duplicity was picked up by Cameron.

It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

This duplicity is also evident in the crackdown on freedom of speech, assembly, association, and movement now unfolding in China.

Daily life under totalitarianism, be it communist or fascist, was routinely based on a deep duplicity whose effects are longstanding.

For the brave and charismatic dissident Wei Jingsheng, Mao cast virtually the whole of China into a state of violence, duplicity, and poverty.

Given China s Libyan duplicity, the world should now determine whether it is a country that obeys international rules only when doing so suits its interests.

The country s establishment was blamed for duplicity in the American war effort in Afghanistan, backing both sides the United States and the Taliban at the same time.

This theme of apparent Pakistani duplicity was picked up by Cameron. In a speech delivered before an audience of Indian business leaders in Bangalore, he accused Pakistan of being on both sides of the Afghan equation.

The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods. It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

A sad lesson of the West s duplicity with regard to democratic reform in the Arab world, which both Syria and Iran have been happy to embrace, is that pro Western moderate leaders who gave ground to pro democracy protesters ended up being swept away, while those who brutally crushed their opponents are hanging on.