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Unfortunately, the door to such access remains largely closed, partly because China was initially reluctant to allow overseas groups into their hinterlands to assist.
Why has the US stock market done so well in recent months--the Dow increased over 30% since its low on March 11, 2003, and closed above 10,000 on December 11--even with the media reporting one financial scandal after another?
But it is also a closed environment.
The experiment occurred when the state of Oregon opened enrollment to Medicaid in 2008, after the opportunity had been closed for many years.
Archives that were previously restricted or closed have allowed both Chinese and foreign researchers to gather materials to tell previously forbidden stories.
And, in the face of ongoing military operations, most schools in Waziristan have remain closed for the past 7 years, depriving a generation of children of education and opportunity.
China, which remains a closed society in many ways, has an open mind, whereas the US is an open society with a closed mind.
And Chinese wind-turbine manufacturers, having gradually closed technology gaps, now account for more than 90% of the Chinese domestic market, up from just 25% in 2002.
There is a precedent for this: when the US closed Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, the Chinese military immediately stepped up its activity around the Spratly Islands, which are recognized as Filipino territory but which China is claiming vehemently.
Given that the Doha Round has failed to address the main problems that the US and Europe have encountered in trade relations with China – non-compliance with intellectual-property rules, subsidies for state-owned enterprises, closed government-procurement markets, and limits on access to the services market – both are now emphasizing bilateral trade agreements.
But if the Union encroaches on your rights, access to a court may be closed because the Union happens to have no legal personality!
Although large cities will remain as closed as ever, the new policy will dramatically weaken the institutional foundation of China’s long history of urban-rural and regional divides.
But even in the eurozone, GDP growth is slightly above its (admittedly very meager) potential, so that the remaining output gap is being closed gradually.
For those entities that are closed down, this would mean moving illiquid assets into a holding entity that would gradually sell them off.
But the people who truly “love China” are more likely to be found in the streets of Hong Kong than in the closed government compounds of Beijing.
During my third year of high school, the Israeli authorities closed off the Gaza Strip.
The last thing many Europeans want is yet another set of supra-national rules, formulated behind closed doors, governing their economies.
Making matters worse, it is clear that disagreements within the GCC can no longer be resolved behind closed doors, and that member states are unable to air them publicly without risking a diplomatic rupture.
Without a life-giving background in the form of a diversely structured civil society, political parties as well as political institutions wither, lose inventiveness, and are eventually reduced to dull, closed groups of political professionals.
Conventions could also foster new political movements like Macron’s own La République En Marche !, which could bring fresh faces into politics, help to open up closed, corrupt party systems, and start to rebuild the public’s trust in politicians.
The problem for optimal control methods is that the real world is not some closed system where economic relationships never change, or where they change in fully predictable ways.
If corporate tax reform happens at all, it will be a hodge-podge brokered behind closed doors.
Instead of every closed market having to re-invent the wheel, once is enough to get everyone’s economy going.
In theory, about half of the education gap in these areas could be closed by building girls’ schools.
In the contest between open and closed societies, the latter are clearly winning, and liberal democracy is quickly becoming a resistance movement.
For example, many people both inside and outside the US had become cynical about the American political system, arguing that it was dominated by money and closed to outsiders.
Thus, the circle is closed.
(The first attempt, in Iowa, where she talked to about eight people in closed meetings, didn’t work out very well.)
But, after a brief exchange of views behind closed doors, no joint statement was issued and only a heavily sanitized account of the meeting was made available to China’s state media.
In another we assumed that it will remain closed until 2010.
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