Two sides of coin - pride & prejudice

Xu Zhiyuan(许知远), a Chinese columnist described interestingly the relationship between China's local governments/authorities with the people as like two sides of coin, which will never look properly at each other.

Local governments/authorities represents 'pride'. They view the people as uneducated, trigger-happy mob.

The people represents 'prejudice'. They view the authority as self-appointed vigilante which must be lying all the time.

There are too many riots happened in China nowadays, all because of the tension above-mentioned. The columnist blamed lack of democracy and voting rights in China.

But, in Malaysia, isn't there the two sides of coin, too?