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With even routine approval of projects and requests potentially arousing suspicion, the Chinese bureaucracy is now paralyzed by fear.
Moreover, the scars of the 1930’s virtual civil war have still not healed: mutual
suspicion
and memories of internecine massacres vitiated cooperation and trust.
That indifference was no doubt shaped by the deeply ingrained prejudices of the time, as well as by widespread
suspicion
of all strangers.
The Asian CockpitLONDON – With the July terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul – which left 41 dead and the finger of
suspicion
pointing at the Pakistani intelligence services – the world was again reminded why the Indian sub-continent has eclipsed the Middle East as the world’s flash-point.
There is too much history, and there are too many continuing grounds for suspicion, for that.
But, as public
suspicion
of Big Tech intensifies, European leadership in this area is both critical and warranted.
Being lectured on the meaning of solidarity is bound to reinforce this
suspicion.
And he is viewed with
suspicion
in Islamabad and Moscow as well, given his past anti-Pakistan views and criticism of Russia’s regional ambitions.
At that time, the environmental groups that advocated for sustainable seafood were met with suspicion, if not outright rejection.
A common
suspicion
is that China uses this opacity to strike bilateral deals with debtor governments that are at its mercy.
The outgoing regime still warrants suspicion, but the Algerian street now offers ample cause for hope.
Given this
suspicion
of nation-state sovereignty, it is no accident that Christian Democrats played a critical role in advancing European integration.
Inevitably, mass protests have erupted, particularly in the North-Eastern states bordering Bangladesh, where locals fear being swamped by Bangladeshi Hindu migrants with fast-track citizenship; in West Bengal and Delhi, where Muslims fear that they will be subject to a worsening climate of suspicion; and among Muslims and secularists nationwide.
And the police, in turn, conflate
suspicion
and hostility with criminality.
But today’s traumatized polities, vulnerable to passions and prone to suspicion, may want to go further.
But this fundamental trait combines awkwardly with another feature of our evolved psychologies:
suspicion
of strangers.
His disparaging of the press – a fanatic Trump supporter roughed up a BBC cameraman at a recent rally – satisfies his followers’
suspicion
of “elites,” while helping him create a fact-free environment in which his thousands of lies define an alternate reality.
No central bank can afford to be viewed with
suspicion
by a significant share of the population.
The circumstances surrounding the incurrence of other liabilities, however, are opaque; in this context, opacity arouses
suspicion.
Arrested DiplomacyCANBERRA – On November 19, Carlos Ghosn, the board chair and former CEO of Nissan, was arrested at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on
suspicion
of under-reporting income and misusing corporate funds for personal purposes; he remains in custody.
These include an awareness that there is no clear House of Commons majority for any Brexit option; a conviction that British Prime Minister Theresa May lacks support for a realistic compromise; a
suspicion
that hardline Brexiteers are running down the clock to the March 29, 2019, deadline for the UK to leave the EU; and growing doubt about the wisdom of a second referendum, popularly known as a “People’s Vote.”
And, like Bannon, all harbor varying degrees of suspicion, if not outright hostility, toward fundamental values of the European Union, including respect for universal human rights.
By highlighting the potential criminal uses of Libra, they only succeeded in confirming the libertarian
suspicion
that, faced with the threat of losing control over money, regulators, politicians, and central bankers prefer to smother liberating monetary innovations.
Citizens of Asian descent are viewed with suspicion, and Chinese restaurants from Berlin to San Francisco are reporting a drop in business of 50% or more as customers shun them.
As right-wing populists with a deep
suspicion
of minorities and a barely concealed bias against Muslims, Trump and Modi have developed something of a “bromance.”
While this might at first sound inconsistent with heightened
suspicion
of globalization, the necessary reforms can in fact synthesize both trends.
Some MPs had proposed a secret ballot as early as 1830, but others argued then that such a measure would result in “eternal
suspicion
and hypocrisy.”
Yet this coherence itself has become a source of tension, insofar as it fuels
suspicion
among the other groups living within these artificial countries.
Each of us stitched together a patchwork of certitude and
suspicion
from the bloody, putrid shreds.
The founders’ state-building efforts were met with
suspicion.
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