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No one adds up the costs of betraying, yet again, what America claims to stand for, even while witnessing people willing to march – in the face of bullets – for precisely those universal values: dignity, freedom, democracy, and equality.
Then Taiwan did several things: by establishing science parks, it provided a good environment for R&D; by deregulating, it provided opportunities for entrepreneurs; last, but emphatically not least, by ending the dictatorship and ushering in democracy, it provided the basis for that universal desire of people to pursue their individual
freedom
and happiness.
His thesis was that once people have tasted freedom, once the oppressive leader is gone, they will naturally live as free people and build a new, democratic society without much central oversight.
Of course, they know from the media – indeed, from the Internet – about transparency and freedom, but without quite understanding how it works.
As with the concept of individual freedom, national sovereignty depends on how its components are defined.
Nonetheless, what dominates is a desire for individual freedom, an acceptance of diversity, great concern for the environment, and a refusal to be “organized” from above.
Not only has the expansion of primary and secondary education been linked to accelerated economic growth, poverty eradication, and improved income equality, but education also appears to be closely associated with social enrichment and inclusion, the upgrading of human capital, increased opportunities, and enhanced
freedom
and welfare.
Today, too many Latin governments, fearful of the media’s ability to expose misdeeds, have altered their tactics but remain determined to limit press
freedom.
Living with InsecurityI have often wondered why Karl Popper ended the dramatic peroration of the first volume of his Open Society and Its Enemies with the sentence: "We must go on into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure, using what reason we have to plan for both security and freedom."
Is not
freedom
enough?
Looking around the world in 2004, you begin to understand Popper's motive:
freedom
always means living with risk, but without security, risk means only threats, not opportunities.
But while it is hard to deny that such measures are necessary, it is no less necessary to remember the other half of the phrase: "security and freedom."
They prove that up to a point security can be provided without loss of
freedom.
Perhaps we need a new Enlightenment to spread the confidence we need to live with insecurity in
freedom.
Without the policy of containment under America's security umbrella, the Red Army would have strangled the dream of
freedom
in Eastern Europe, or brought European unity, but under a flag with red stars.
West Europeans also forget that some areas of the world have never known
freedom.
Other officials have publicly suggested that victims themselves are “asking for it” by their use of
freedom
of movement.
In India – as in Italy, Sweden, and around the world – women and men who support
freedom
of movement and safety from sex crimes are being forced to refight that battle.
Freedom
of assembly is not reducible to free speech or
freedom
of association.
The second application of Groucho’s question was that citizens of most Communist countries soon learned that the loss of
freedom
that they suffered was not compensated by greater prosperity or a higher quality of life.
Both India and Japan are longstanding stakeholders in the US-led global order, emphasizing in their own international relations the values that America espouses, such as the need to maintain a stable balance of power, respect the territorial and maritime status quo, and preserve
freedom
of navigation.
He had sought to take advantage of the Beijing Olympics to give the foreign media unprecedented freedom, but the bureaucrats succeeded in reversing his decision.
Yet today, South Tyrol enjoys extensive constitutional autonomy, including full cultural
freedom
and a fiscal regime that leaves 90% of tax revenues in the region.
This will hurt our own societies, which are built on the principles of openness and
freedom
of expression.
International rules bind the US and limit America's
freedom
of action, but they also serve American interests by binding others to observable rules and norms as well.
For example, the "New International Information Order" proposed by UNESCO in the 1970s would have helped authoritarian governments restrict
freedom
of the press.
But Communism's fall made us recognize that it had debased not onlyindividual
freedom
but the sense of community as well.
This has supported the emergence of major Chinese digital firms such as Tencent and Baidu, though it often has had adverse effects on
freedom
of expression and access to information.
For the US, sympathy for Arab publics yearning for
freedom
cannot exclude compassion for Palestinians dreaming of lives of dignity, which for them includes ending the occupation.
The US should not be selective in its support for
freedom
and democracy.
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