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The concern then was discrimination: European countries, it was feared, would find it easier to import from one another, but, lacking dollars, would still refuse to import from America.
Of course, in certain countries, China’s power has been feared for many centuries, irrespective of who happens to be in power, emperors or communists.
What is most feared now is not the government, but lawlessness from a collapsing economy in a health crisis.
All those who feared and despised Trump should be reassured by the 2020 election result.
China’s Cambodian InvasionPARIS – It has long been feared that Cambodia’s growing dependence on China – its largest aid donor, investor, and creditor – would lead to a Chinese military presence in the country.
By contrast, a defeated Germany, like almost every other central European country, feared severe deflation.
The evidence from all the infected regions, even including Hubei province, is that the spread of the virus drops to a negligible level once the contagion curve flattens, perhaps because the badly infected patients have been thoroughly isolated and treated, while the contagion from non-symptomatic carriers is actually much weaker than initially feared.
Nor is there evidence that journalists or commentators have suppressed stories or opinions because they feared government retaliation.
Following Machiavelli, they would rather be feared than loved.
But in 1954, the formation of a defense union – under the Pleven Plan and the Treaty of Paris – was rejected by the French Parliament, which feared becoming too dependent on the US.
Hong Kong’s citizens feared that the extradition bill would deprive them of the security of the rule of law, and in effect legalize the abduction of individuals deemed to be “enemies” of the Chinese state.
The new mandate that dare not speak its name has prevented the euro from unraveling as a result of the pandemic – a possibility that many feared early on.
The US, it is feared, may treat Japan as a strategic bargaining chip should Trump prevail, or grow even more inward-looking if Sanders does.
Land and housing values soared, with urban real-estate prices rising so fast that many feared a bubble.
Nixon and Kissinger feared that China’s interest would diminish if the US appeared unwilling to stand up to India, a country backed by the Soviets and one with whom China had fought a war a decade before.
The trigger was a proposed extradition law that many feared would extend the mainland’s reach into Hong Kong’s judicial system.
COVID-19 has spread so widely in part because the Chinese government feared political embarrassment and initially suppressed information when doctors in Wuhan raised the alarm over infectious cases.
But, despite that change of direction, and the certain loss of the so-called passport, which would allow financial services to be sold freely across the EU, the feared large-scale exodus of firms and financiers from London does not seem to be under way.
Most people in Hong Kong – lawyers, business representatives, and ordinary citizens – feared that the law would demolish at a single stroke one of the main pillars of the “one country, two systems” arrangement that was supposed to guarantee the city’s way of life and a high degree of autonomy until 2047.
In the nineteenth century, many feared that new mechanical and industrial innovations would “replace” workers.
Conservatives so feared and hated moderate social democrats that instead of trying to ally with them to create what in the US became Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, they chose to put the Nazis in power.
But as a Parisian, a Frenchman, and a European, not to mention a citizen of the world, I was seized by a profound sense of impending loss when the fire began, as experts feared that the entire cathedral could collapse.
She feared that a highly divisive impeachment process would jeopardize the 41-seat net gain by Democrats in the 2018 election – the party’s largest since 1974 (shortly after Nixon’s resignation).
The proposed legislation was so sweeping that democratic activists, as well as businesspeople who had fallen out with mainland partners, feared they might be legally extradited to China to stand trial under its party-controlled legal system.
The two friends looked at each other, and in both faces appeared an embarrassed expression, as if Golenishchev – who obviously admired her – tried but failed to hit on the right thing to say about her; and as if Vronsky both feared and wished that he should succeed.
To her it seemed that if he knew of it he would the sooner cease to love her, and there was nothing she now feared more – though she had no reason to do so – than the loss of his love.
Their delight in his picture aroused in Mikhaylov his former excitement, but he feared and disliked their idle interest in his past work, and therefore, though their praises gave him pleasure, he tried to draw his visitors' attention to a third picture.
But Levin and others, though they were able to say a great deal about death, evidently did not know anything, for they feared it and had no notion what to do when people were dying.
And she feared that, more than anything else in the world, and therefore hid from him everything concerning her son.
He feared this, but he so wished to avoid a scene that he pretended to believe, and to some extent sincerely believed, in what he wished to believe, namely, in her reasonableness.
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