Suharto has built a political system on unity and consensus.

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The new rules bar users from doing anything online to harm national unity or incite the overthrow of China's socialist system.

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The 19th-century idealists who first dreamed of a united Europe assumed that Russia would be part of the new system: Victor Hugo's appeal in 1849 for European unity was addressed to Russia, as well as to France and Germany.

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