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Such statements sounded new to Chinese ears, because they accentuated politics rather than trumpeting the Party’s usual
emphasis
on economic determinism.
The related
emphasis
on productivity, innovation, pruning excess capacity, and moving up the value chain in manufacturing and services are underscored as key building blocks of this effort.
For example, the Western
emphasis
on reform and democracy in recent years has been used more often than not as a threat, a typical message being: “Help us in Iraq or we will press for democracy and human rights in your own country.”
This means a new
emphasis
on engagement, debate, and education – especially at the community level.
China’s leaders are placing heavy
emphasis
on pollution control.
And Israel’s
emphasis
on its Jewish identity has become a formidable obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
Liu played an important role in shaping the recently adopted 12th Five-Year Plan, with its
emphasis
on urbanization and service-sector development as a means to increase personal incomes and the share of consumer spending in GDP.
Taken together, these appointments demonstrate the new Chinese leadership’s
emphasis
on pro-market reforms and a shift from heavy industry to greater reliance on consumption and services.
The
emphasis
is understandable, but there is a real danger in framing the problem as one of inequality.
From the so-called “Big Push” to “Balanced Growth,” from the “Washington Consensus” to “Second Generation Reforms,” the
emphasis
has been on wholesale change.
These accounts differ in emphasis, but they are not contradictory.
New powers like China and India are rising, not risen, mixing assertiveness with
emphasis
on their continued “developing” status.
And it means that the health-care system’s quality will be improved not by throwing more money at it, but through a greater
emphasis
on preventive medicine.
Instead, the
emphasis
is on protecting the “nation” against foreign viruses.
On the Middle East, a difference in
emphasis
has become a yawning gulf.
Only Israel and Jordan seem to be stable – with an
emphasis
on “seem.”
From the left, the
emphasis
has been on the megabanks’ abuse of power and the great rip-off of the middle class.
But an
emphasis
on suppression alone leads to the fire equivalent of a police state, not to a livable landscape.
The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right – the former because of the Fund’s
emphasis
on fiscal rectitude and economic orthodoxy, and the latter because of its role in bailing out indebted nations.
The revolution that must be overcome is that of May 1968, whose leaders and supporters, according to Sarkozy, may have lost politically to de Gaulle, but deeply weakened France over the succeeding decades with their
emphasis
on “false values.”
In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her
emphasis
on discipline and family.
What has separated China from the pack has been its strong inclination to place greater
emphasis
on strategic objectives in charting its economic-development path.
But focusing on a near-term growth target, and fine-tuning fiscal and monetary policies in order to achieve it – to say nothing of yet another credit crunch roiling Chinese short-term funding markets – detract from the
emphasis
on strategic shifts that economic rebalancing now requires.
Likewise, the
emphasis
on markets’ “decisive role” in upgrading China’s industrial structure and eliminating excess capacity is compatible with the Third Plenum’s goal of achieving a market-based shift to a consumer society.
Such targets smack of the legacy of a state-directed economy – a legacy that runs counter to policymakers’ new
emphasis
on the “decisive role” of markets.
Chinese policymakers’ traditional
emphasis
on long-term strategy has enabled them to steer past the inevitable bumps on the road to economic development.
By opening itself to the world through tourism, and with its
emphasis
on education and women’s rights, Ben Ali’s regime created something unique in the Middle East: a vibrant middle class.
In the US, such schemes contribute to widespread dissemination of expertise, whereas European laboratories still use them as waiting lines without putting enough
emphasis
on multinational and multidisciplinary trajectories.
The
emphasis
should be on building coalitions among the relatively moderate states that are threatened by radical Islamist forces, and on working hard to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons – a goal that is in the interests of many in the region.
Countries need to know that their companies will not suffer either from outflows of electricity to other EU countries during shortages, or from price increases, owing to the rising
emphasis
on renewables.
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