Complex sentence: There are authoritarian regimes where few if any journalists have been killed in the same period (e.g. China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba)-journalists know not to step out of line and other forms of coercion are more effective.
Split into simpler sentences: There are authoritarian regimes where few if any journalists have been killed in the same period (e.g. China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba). This is because journalists know not to step out of line and other forms of coercion are more effective.