high-handedness

This self-image has been eroded in recent years, however, by a string of revelations about past high-handedness in dealing with the island's population.

North Korea has sought to forge closer ties with the Kremlin and backed Moscow after it invaded Ukraine last year, blaming the "hegemonic policy" and "high-handedness" of the United States and the West.

The United States is as prone to the tug of authoritarian worship as anywhere else, as a review of the Trump administration — high-handedness tempered by incompetence, and ending in a failed coup — makes painfully evident.

“The Arab people value independence, oppose external interference, stand up to power politics and high-handedness, and always seek to make progress,” Xi’s column read.

Pyongyang issued a statement defending the attack, saying the blame “totally lies in the hegemonic policy of the U.S. and the West which indulge themselves in high-handedness and arbitrariness towards other countries.”