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It must offer a new kind of politics that places a wedge between genuine fears and isolationism.
Financial markets would undoubtedly react swiftly, reviving the fears of last summer.
The Federal Reserve, having taken interest rates down to spectacularly low levels—in part, because of misplaced fears about deflation-- started the interest rate normalization process too late.
And public anxiety about employment and living standards has replaced the fears about global warming that inspired the 2009 movement.
In fact, fears that new stock issues would depress equity prices were so strong that policymakers closed the market for initial public offerings for more than a year, beginning in 2012.
With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style Great Depression, America’s political leaders developed, virtually overnight, a $700 billion bailout plan to resuscitate the country’s rapidly deflating financial sector.
Now, too, fears of mutually assured destruction could re-emerge.
It is that the worst fears of both Orwell and Huxley will become manifest in both types of system, creating a different kind of dystopia.
Trump’s upcoming presidency will likely create similar problems, and the president-elect’s promise to remain “unpredictable” could tarnish the populist model further, especially if fears of a trade war, or a dramatic spike in the dollar, owing to looser fiscal policy and tighter monetary policy, cause additional economic uncertainty.
Populist leaders, in particular, have been eager to manipulate the migration debate, using inflated figures and other gross exaggerations to stoke popular fears.
Most importantly, the US and China should avoid developing exaggerated fears of each other’s capacities and intentions.
These fears have turned out to be mistaken.
Deflation fears were mistakenly raised in 2001-2003, when the strong response of the US housing market and consumer spending to lower interest rates should have made the debate redundant.
Iran’s hawks might believe that their country is invincible, but fears are growing that regional overreach could trigger a long list of dangerous consequences.
But if Dr. Jiang became a hero in the process, he was also marked as insubordinate, the kind of potentially uncontrollable person that the Chinese Communist Party fears.
Indeed, the Party's worst fears were realized this past March just before the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre.
The left’s concerns about labor and the environment were accompanied by fears about excessive benefits for corporations: protection of the intellectual property of pharmaceutical and other companies, and the mechanisms used to settle disputes between investors and states.
They just might find that their worst nighttime fears have vanished by the light of day.
Bollinger calculated that annual investment of $2 million over five years would achieve 100% safe blood transfusions by 2015 and avert more than 131,000 HIV infections, while alleviating fears of infection for the almost half-billion people who would otherwise receive blood that was not comprehensively screened.
India’s government wants to open up its economy to Western imports, but the rest of the world is not addressing its fears of over-exposure to global volatility.
Here, too, the right choice is clear: EU leaders should offer Europeans a new social contract, based on the understanding that people’s legitimate fears about globalization should be met with a collective, progressive European response.
With thriving economies came increased strategic clout, leading to the rise of regional geopolitics shaped by national interests and fears, rather than by external forces.
But, while there is much to worry about, the bottom line is that these fears are exaggerated.
Saudi Arabia’s fears about Iraq are driven by security concerns.
Saudi Arabia also fears that Iraq will regain its oil-output quota within OPEC, which the country couldn’t meet, owing to poor security and infrastructure constraints.
Indeed, in his speech announcing the annexation of Crimea, Putin spoke his mind: his regime fears no punishment and will do whatever it pleases.
In the wake of the protracted euro crisis, and the painful austerity that followed, today’s populists have been able to play on similar fears, again primarily among older workers and other vulnerable groups.
And many high-income countries have experienced measles outbreaks in recent years, owing to fears about vaccinations that began with the publication of a fraudulent paper in the British medical journal The Lancet in 1998.
And, as Greek Minister of Health Andreas Xanthos has noted, health-care professionals are increasingly encountering parents who have fears about vaccinating their children.
Governments should be educating the public to improve overall coverage, not validating unfounded fears about vaccine safety.
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