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As Americans and other Westerners increasingly perceive China as a country unable to address its political problems and addicted to growth at all costs, the Chinese government appears to be reverting to a national narrative of victimization that has
poisonous
roots in China’s perception of historical events such as the 1899-1901 Boxer rebellion.
But, until we clean the soil in which this
poisonous
plant takes root, it will continue to blight the life chances of millions of young people around the world – and jeopardize our own security.
As an illustration, current regulations for GM foods, if applied to non-GM products, would bar the sale of potatoes and tomatoes, which can contain
poisonous
glycoalkaloids; celery, which contains carcinogenic psoralens; rhubarb and spinach (oxalic acid); and cassava, which feeds about half a billion people, but contains toxic cyanogenic alkaloids.
China recognizes that America is in great difficulty (indeed, it recognizes this more clearly than the US itself), and that, given the
poisonous
political atmosphere prevailing in Washington, there will be no easy return to good government, economic stability, and strong growth.
Likewise, Iran needs to retire
poisonous
slogans like “Death to America” and instead work with the US to advance its own interests and aspirations.
And no one can be blamed for not wanting to participate in the
poisonous
politics of Washington today.
I do not want to exaggerate the threat that Lepper poses, but I believe he represents a
poisonous
model of irrational politics.
Its style is almost scientific – factual, staccato-like, and unemotional – and it goes a long way toward meeting China’s demand for a convincing investigation and act of contrition that might allow the bitter and still
poisonous
past to be overcome.
Similarly, a taboo against using
poisonous
gases in warfare developed after World War I, and the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons.
The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas spoke for many when he dismissed the importance of inequality: “Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of [income] distribution.”
Describing the asthmatic travails of his eight-year-old son, Harris wrote that Delhi is “suffering from a dire pediatric respiratory crisis,” in which “nearly half of the city’s 4.4 million schoolchildren have irreversible lung damage from the
poisonous
air.”
Some ministers don’t care much about public perceptions when using public funds, and it is clear that the political atmosphere has become
poisonous.
But, by exploiting the same popular sentiments, they are contributing to a
poisonous
climate, which could bring political violence into the mainstream once again.
The images from these victories, featuring women, are an antidote to ISIS’s
poisonous
propaganda, and they encourage more women to resist the group’s ideological dictates.
Yet, in the UK’s current circumstances, nothing would be more
poisonous
to democracy than revisiting Brexit by means of a second referendum.
China has also gained a reputation for food and drug contamination (not to mention lead paint in toys and
poisonous
toothpaste).
Yousef seethed with resentment about the discovery of his “Bojinka” (explosives) cell in Manila the month before and vowed:We will take the harshest of measures in order that all Filipino interests inside and outside the Philippines will be subject to destruction....Our measures will include assassinating prominent figures, foremost among them the Filipino President (RAMOS)....We also have the ability to use chemicals and
poisonous
gas against vital institutions, residential populations, and drinking water sources...
Today, the bloody footprints of Russian agents and soldiers are as evident in Ukraine as the
poisonous
traces of polonium were in the streets of London following the murder of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
Now we are free to enjoy and profit from our growingcontacts with literary comrades (a word that may have
poisonous
associations inthe former communist countries, but that continues to be used here for its connotationof genuine human solidarity) from our own continent and with whomever willinvite us to their countries or, even better, come to ours.
The
poisonous
immorality of the 1930s had returned.
Not only does it lead to greater disenfranchisement of the middle and lower classes; it also fosters among the elite a
poisonous
politics of sectarianism.
Suggestions by Bannon that he played a major role in Trump’s election victory were
poisonous
to the relationship between the two men.
Despite US goodwill, they were unable to overcome their differences, and let the reparation problem degenerate into a
poisonous
financial conflict that contributed to much worse.
As a result, all living things – us included – have been plunged into a sickening
poisonous
stew, with organisms that are unable to adapt pushed further toward extinction.
They need to wean themselves from the
poisonous
rhetoric of ethnic nationalism substituting as patriotism.
Most importantly, while it would not ensure the creation of a viable democracy, it would at least reduce the threat to democracy posed by the increasingly
poisonous
role played by money in Russian politics.
In the
poisonous
political atmosphere that has bedeviled the UN after the Iraq War, widespread disillusionment is not surprising.
(On the other hand, an essay arguing that there is nothing wrong with adults taking a sexual interest in children, and that such conduct should be permitted, expresses ideas, and thus should not be censored, no matter how
poisonous
we may consider them.)
Even more
poisonous
is a chain of monopolies offering complementary goods.
Diamond argues that when agriculture was still in its infancy, our ancestors were remarkably efficient at identifying the very few species that were suitable for domestication – by which Diamond means not being
poisonous.
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