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China’s relationships with other countries are channeled through its diaspora, and the Chinese perceive the world via their experience as immigrants.
These traits contrasted so manifestly with the culture and prosperity of the democratic West that it inevitably led us to perceive the West as good and the East as evil.
Indeed, while the previous Bush administration led the global opposition to harm reduction, the US delegation struck a more conciliatory tone at the Vienna summit, indicating what some perceive as a fresh start to drug policy.
Indeed, of the various possible reasons why the electorate in 2014 did not perceive the economic recovery that was underway, the most plausible is that the typical American had not benefited from it.
The pragmatic “lesson” remains unlearned because those who take this view perceive a different lesson.
Thus, by focusing on the (arbitrary) date of 2015, we fail to perceive the fundamental change that the MDGs represent.
Start from the basic point of departure -- that this world and our existence are not a freak chance of nature having little meaning but are part of a mysterious, yet integral, act whose sources, direction and purpose are difficult for us to perceive in their entirety.
If they perceive improvements in their terms of trade as permanent – a view that gains traction as prices climb – increases in consumption and investment tend to outpace income gains, and public and private leverage grows.
The way we French are perceived by others affects how we perceive ourselves, and nothing is more troubling for us than to be perceived with indifference or, worse, not to be noticed at all.
The Japanese, who perceive themselves as the world’s best engineers, now feel humiliated.
These questions are not so much about the end of capitalism – as some perceive or even desire – but rather about the different ways in which capitalism is understood in different countries.
At the same time, the public cannot perceive a reduction of inflation from 20% to 15%.
Years ago, it was because the meetings were so openly secretive (much like the way people perceive board meetings).
Obama was supported by a coalition of minorities: African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, gay and lesbian Americans, and an under-represented majority – women – all of whom perceive continuing inequalities and injustices that need to be remedied.
Their successors continued to perceive the world – and their countries’ role in it – in ways that constrained rational discussion and distorted decision-making for years.
It comes from within, but can be reinforced or weakened by the way others perceive you.
Whether justified or not, when people perceive a threat to their national identity, their tribal instincts kick in.
There is no more room for amateur central banks trying to exploit what they perceive as a residual domestic money illusion.
And Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit in December to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead – including, since 1978, its most serious convicted war criminals – has re-opened long-festering wounds among Japan’s neighbors, who perceive a lack of sincere contrition for waging aggressive war and committing wartime atrocities.
While we in Poland do not perceive an immediate military threat from Russia, most of the world’s active tactical or sub-strategic nuclear weapons today seem to be deployed just east of Poland’s borders, in speculative preparation for conflict in Europe.
Indeed, many Chinese officials perceive that to be the current American strategy.
If they perceive that the dollar and dollar bonds have become riskier, they will want to change the distribution of assets in their portfolios.
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, in particular, perceive Iran as inciting unrest among their own substantial Shia populations.
And, finally – perhaps most important – they allow their users to perceive patterns and opportunities that would be impossible to discover through traditional means.
For Greeks, Italians, and many French, evading taxes is a kind of national pastime, which some even perceive as a moral duty.
Ironically, China’s current maritime strategy has its roots in the US, the nation that China appears to perceive as its key strategic rival, namely in the “sea power” theory developed by Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan at the end of the nineteenth century.
Chinese cynicism and spontaneous selfishness, however, is now tempered by what they perceive as growing recognition of their unique status.
That resentment remains, sustained in part by historical grievances, but the Japanese have now come to perceive themselves as Asians, helped by their realization that the economic miracle that they initiated in the region has gone well beyond them.
This suggests that a majority of Germans still do not yet perceive economic weakness as more important than other, more short-term issues.
Unilateralism seems very expedient to shortsighted politicians, for it obviates the need for what they perceive as the mess of actual negotiations – that is, meeting their counterparts face to face and discovering the human results of their policies.
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