Suspicion
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Incurable suspicion, mutual fear, ubiquitous contempt - confirmed everyday in large and small ways - are our immutable social condition.
Similarly, America’s great
suspicion
concerning Iran’s role in this regional crisis should not be used to try to limit its participation at the conference.
While polls suggest that Western European electorates are coming back around to supporting European integration and pro-European reformers, this positive mood has not yet reached Central and Eastern Europe, where
suspicion
toward the EU remains strong.
Abroad, China’s rise has caused admiration, envy, suspicion, and even outright hostility in some corners.
So, without transparency of revenues and their beneficial use, resource-extraction companies inevitably become the targets of local
suspicion.
While financial and political scandals -- the notorious French "affaires" -- are multiplying, none of the new government members appears to be under the slightest
suspicion
of involvement; something that could not have been said about the previous ministerial team, or about the entourage that surrounded President Mitterrand.
And, second, does every oligarch deserve to be regarded with
suspicion?
Suspicion
is certainly the order of the day in the US, where the authorities have announced massive sanctions against two Russian tycoons, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, as part of an effort to punish the Kremlin for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
If large corporations (and other banks) have deposits that they expect to be able to claim on short notice, and if they know that not all such deposits can be withdrawn at the same time, then
suspicion
that a bank might fail gives them as much reason to rush to the exit as households have.
But the reality is that security risks – which may well be genuine – are no excuse for the kind of blanket
suspicion
that governments are using as a pretext for silencing or prohibiting independent organizations.
Indeed, as part of their claimed desire to protect the nation’s sovereignty, governments in developing and emerging countries now regard cash transfers from rich countries for, say, democratization processes, with far more
suspicion
than they did in the 1990s.
The European Union’s legitimacy deficit derives from the popular
suspicion
that its institutional arrangements have veered too far from the former to the latter.
Indeed, over the last ten years, Russian foreign policy has been animated by defensiveness and
suspicion.
But there are at least two exceptions to this
suspicion.
Ennobling DemocracyWARSAW -- Ever since democracy appeared in ancient Athens, it has generated
suspicion
among those who believe that humanity’s highest purpose is virtue, not freedom.
Even when rebranded as a “rebalancing,” America’s eastward shift is inevitably met with
suspicion
by some Asian countries, particularly China.
Putin, after all, has sought to promote a neo-Slavophile identity defined above all by
suspicion
of Western cultural and intellectual influence.
According to the American scientist who was invited to see it, the facility, in contrast to the regime’s aging plutonium technology, appeared to be state-of-the-art, thus reinforcing the
suspicion
that North Korea has no genuine interest whatsoever in fulfilling its nuclear-disarmament responsibilities.
Finally, the Libyan case and the Dubai debt crisis of 2009 might increase
suspicion
in the developed world and lead to protectionism against SWFs, especially those from North Africa and the Gulf.
In an area full of
suspicion
and antagonism towards the state, expanding the targets of its political prosecutions from Tibetan protestors to environmentalists and from dissident monks to businessmen risks further undermining China’s own objectives in its most troubled region.
Today, conspiracy theories abound in Mexico about the origins of the virus, because government officials are viewed with such ingrained
suspicion.
As a result, Trump positions himself in the dubious company of those throughout American history who displayed malice and
suspicion
toward new arrivals: the supporters of the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s, which lengthened the period for naturalization to 14 years; the Know Nothings of the pre-Civil War years, who sought to bar Catholics from the country; those in the early twentieth century who claimed that newcomers from eastern and southern Europe, and from China and Japan, could not be made into Americans, and whose arguments led in the 1920s to stringent quotas for immigration from those regions; and those so intent on keeping out Jews seeking to flee Nazi Europe that even the small immigrant quotas for those countries were not filled.
Like Caesar’s wife, microfinance has to be above
suspicion.
An atmosphere of mortal fear, mutual suspicion, and hatred among the Communist elite was the catalyst for Nikita Khrushchev’s post-Stalin thaw.
Europe is too inward looking;China inspires too much suspicion; and India, despite showing signs that it is preparing for a greater global role, lacks enough international authority on its own.
But
suspicion
of the IMF persists, and most countries, especially in Asia, still prefer costly self-insurance to a form of mutualization perceived as uncertain.
What does raise the
suspicion
of racism, however, is propagating a negative view of the facts when that view lacks a solid scientific foundation.
This increases the public's
suspicion
of political parties, not least because--like all professional sports--playing the game is expensive.
But the tit-for-tat retaliation that has followed the raid reflects deeper sources of mistrust and mutual
suspicion.
The common currency is now looked at with
suspicion.
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