It’s easy to forget in the midst of such scattered and dramatic events that there’s a geopolitical arm-wrestle at play, and that China’s unwillingness to countenance encouragement of or forcible intervention in favour of democratic uprisings and revolutionary movements in West Asia has everything to do with the millions of Chinese labourers protesting for human rights, or with its thousands of pro-democracy activists at home. Certainly this sort piece helps contextualise the slow motion response from the Security Council, but it also puts in context the untrammelled mass of people who still want some approximation of free political representation across the globe. Here’s hoping…