Perceived
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But what China considers a defensive imperative could be
perceived
as aggressive and expansionist by its neighbors and the United States.
And what looks like a defensive imperative to the US and its Asian allies – building further military capacity in the region to manage China’s rise – could be
perceived
by China as an aggressive attempt to contain it.
One would think that by now we had moved beyond a double standard in how men’s and women’s leadership styles are
perceived.
And, as long as there is a
perceived
problem with women’s leadership styles, no woman can lead a major organization so soothingly, diplomatically, and charmingly that epithets like “pushy,” “bossy,” and “Putin-like” will not follow her the minute someone wants to shove her out the door.
Individual firms might have splendid investment opportunities – to enlarge plant and equipment, capitalize on new software, or exploit new research and new training of key personnel – but might be deterred by cash shortages or
perceived
macroeconomic risks.
Is it any wonder that China is
perceived
as an increasingly credible model for much of the developing world, while the US is now viewed as a symbol of hypocrisy and double standards?
In doing so, he sent his Western allies – which have criticized the arrests of thousands of
perceived
opponents, including many journalists, following last month’s failed military coup – a powerful message: “I don’t need you.”
If, for example, Taiwan were to declare independence, China would likely intervene with armed force, regardless of the
perceived
economic or military costs.
Unlike the US, the EU’s difficulties stem not from a
perceived
lack of legitimacy or crude attempts at promoting democracy, but from a real lack of unity and, therefore, influence.
Conditions
perceived
to be imposed from abroad will almost certainly fail.
So it behaved exactly according to its fear, launching a series of show trials targeting senior military officials and other
perceived
opponents.
But, just as the Turkish military’s repeated interventions against a
perceived
Islamist threat have impeded democracy, so the Egyptian military’s toppling of Morsi will not help to restore it.
In Upper Egypt, “more than 60% of Copts voted for him,” a source close to the Coptic Orthodox Church said, and in Coptic-majority areas, the pro-Shafiq vote exceeded 95%, because he was widely
perceived
as a bulwark against Islamism.
Moreover, many state employees (around 5.1 million of them eligible to vote) and their families supported Shafiq, owing either to direct instructions from their bosses, or to the
perceived
threat of creeping MB influence on government bureaucracies.
But I would submit that Hollywood’s misgivings, however untutored, represent only the tip of a growing iceberg of resentment against the
perceived
injustices of globalization.
And, most notably, at last month’s G7 summit in Quebec, he showed unprecedented hostility toward America’s closest allies, launching personal attacks against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and backing out of the final communiqué in response to a
perceived
slight.
Putin’s political genius is that he understands that, for Russians, being
perceived
as powerful is even more important than actually being powerful.
Another series of studies has shown that when the hormone oxytocin is administered via nasal spray, it increases trusting and cooperative behavior within social groups, but also decreases cooperation with those
perceived
as outsiders.
Governments want the ability to decide how best to protect their countries’
perceived
national interests when a crisis strikes.
But, while French national identity is intimately bound up with France’s international standing – how it is
perceived
in the world – enthusiasm for intervention has receded.
In the years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Americans always had to be on the front line – battling the enemy abroad to avoid having to battle him at home, in the parlance of the time – while the European allies were
perceived
as the cleaning staff.
The
perceived
threat of mass inflows of migrants and refugees from poor countries with very different cultural traditions aggravates identity cleavages that far-right politicians are exceptionally well placed to exploit.
The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it
perceived
domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.
While these policies were
perceived
favorably in most of the Middle East, ISIS and their supporters and sympathizers saw things differently.
Buyers were influenced by strong expectations about future price increases, and they
perceived
little risk.
Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis,
perceived
Abbas’s civility as weakness.
The money-market funds that are
perceived
to be the safest, for example, are those that hold only US government debt.
For example in Guatemala, where the findings of a UN truth commission has at last sparked a serious judicial investigation of former President Rios Montt for crimes against humanity committed during his scorched-earth attacks on
perceived
rural opponents in 1982-83.
Two factors have arguably facilitated the recent return of populism: accelerated cultural and social change, and the
perceived
corruption of established political elites.
A Greek exit from the eurozone, together with financial and political turmoil inside Greece, would be
perceived
as a major defeat for European integration – especially after the laborious efforts made to hold together the monetary union and, with it, the European dream.
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