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The first step toward sustainable economic growth is to recognize, as China’s leaders have, that pollution – produced largely through coal-fired power plants – is profoundly damaging citizens’ lives and livelihoods, particularly in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
The Chinese dream of one billion citizens living in thriving cities – with access to high-quality education, job opportunities in high-tech industries, and a thriving services sector – can become reality.
If the EU refuses to sustain free trade with the UK, its citizens will suffer as much as the British.
China’s government has promised Hong Kong’s citizens that they can freely elect their Chief Executive in 2017.
But, given that candidates are to be carefully vetted by an unelected committee of pro-Chinese appointees, citizens would have no meaningful choice at all.
For most Hong Kong citizens, the prospect of being handed over in 1997 from one colonial power to another was never an entirely happy one.
Without any significant say in how they were to be governed, Hong Kong’s citizens would be at the mercy of China’s leaders.
As it stands, some 70% of Germans citizens oppose the TTIP, almost twice the average in other European countries.
They overwhelmingly believe that Germany will not benefit economically, that lower-skill workers’ wages will suffer, that large corporations will gain power at the expense of consumers, that data and environmental protection will be compromised, and that citizens’ rights will be undermined.
Not every individual or company stands to gain from the TTIP, but the net effect on Germany’s economy and citizens would be clearly positive.
The appeal of such forces is particularly pronounced in the EU, owing to the popular perception that European integration has weakened national sovereignty and left citizens subject to decision-making by unelected technocrats.
“Syria belongs to its 23 million citizens, not to one man or his family.”
Speaking directly to citizens – seeing a country’s people, as well as its government – is not just a rhetorical device.
Countering narco-gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.
Indeed, for the first time, Indian citizens won for best song and for A. R. Rahman’s musical score.
The Gulf countries, which have no citizens working in Libya, were the first to denounce Qaddafi.
After gaining Security Council support, the US, Europe, and some Arab countries began doing exactly what should be expected of the international community when a government is preparing to butcher its own citizens: prevent the slaughter.
Across the region, minorities are feeling more empowered and citizens are making ever-stronger demands for better government.
The return of governments based on the will of the majority of their citizens seemed for decades an unattainable dream in these countries, much as it remains a dream for the citizens of Burma under the rule of its military junta.
They are also a failure of human beings: democratic values do not function without citizens; there can be no democracy without democrats.
Nowadays, a more telling test of the vitality of a democracy is respect for the rights of minorities, recognition of the supremacy of the principles of the rule of law, and the acceptance of legal equality among citizens.
What can India’s government do to provide its citizens with the dignity, comfort, and security that they deserve?
Others, like Massachusetts, tried to levy taxes, but its citizens refused to pay them.
Meanwhile, ordinary citizens do not notice unless the issue receives significant media attention.
It was Nigeria’s first suicide bombing, and the audacity and ferocity of the attack have thrown government officials and citizens alike into panic mode.
The military task force deployed to the area is still in place, and civil-society groups have accused soldiers of pillaging private property, raping women, and shooting innocent citizens.
But, at a time when concern about global warming among citizens in both regions is growing, this is no time for indecisiveness.
Restoration of civil society – the many parallel and mutually complementary ways in which citizens participate in public life – has been far more complicated.
This is why taxation in our country remains excessive: the state has to pay for a thousand things which it would not have to pay if an advanced civil society existed, because citizens would pay for them directly.
Civil society protects citizens from being excessively affected by changes at the center of political power.
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