China s Aborted Openness

Openness isn't the end.

Openness alone can't drive change.

It increases our openness to change.

A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two thirds of African countries have had multi party democratic elections.

With loving kindness, with patience, with openness?

American environmental attitudes toward climate change or genetic modification of food bring similar criticism. More subtly, America's openness to immigration both enriches and changes American culture.

Well, let's see now, if openness predicts who becomes liberal, and openness predicts who becomes a TEDster, then might we predict that most TEDsters are liberal?

And this openness is the beginning of exploratory play.

Openness is a commitment to a certain set of values.

Just as the poets and writers described, we're going to be able to see, I think, that wondrous openness, utter and complete openness, of the mind of a child.

By the end of our lunch, we acknowledged each other's openness.

Guatemala has taken various steps to increase its openness to trade.

Openness and effectiveness should be interrelated objectives of the Security Council.

My delegation supports the Secretary General's call for increased and more effective aid, openness to trade and improved governance, including respect for the rule of law, all of which Mongolia staunchly advocates.

The openness of Germany s markets makes them especially attractive to global trade. This openness will not change, yet there are some who now call for new safety fences in other words, for protection.

Now, I think there are lessons we should learn here, lessons about openness.

So here's the lessons of openness that I think we need to learn.

Radical openness is still a distant future in the field of school education.

So, at TED, we've become a little obsessed with this idea of openness.

But we just have to leave that little bit of openness, to know.

We also support your repeated statements concerning the need for transparency and openness.

This greater openness will enable the Council better to perform its Charter responsibilities.

If you're high in openness to experience, revolution is good, it's change, it's fun.

In the hard sciences, such as mathematics and physics, the truth can be established more transparently, making these fields less prone to scientific misconduct. But branches like medicine, humanities, philosophy, economics, and other social sciences, which rely more heavily on openness and imagination, can be manipulated more easily to suit the goals of bureaucrats.

They are astonished at the openness of spirit of persons coming from very precarious lives.

The openness of public procurement can also facilitate the formation and monitoring of cartel agreements.

Greater economic openness, coupled with the fixed nominal exchange rate, ended China s inflationary roller coaster ride, and, after 1994, real GDP growth also became more stable. The government is now seeking to decontrol domestic interest rates, create a more robust domestic bond market, and finally remove capital controls.

People who are high in openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel.

In the economic field, regional initiatives must promote the greater openness and effectiveness of trade associations.

Central Tehran ebullient with young people and high heeled women donning testimonial headscarves and mid thigh jackets over pants embodies a thirst for openness. More than 60 of Iranians were born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and more than 40 were born after the Iran Iraq War of the 1980 s.

Let us show an openness to fresh approaches and new ideas as a hallmark of our work.

A growing number of citizens in Europe, North America, and the Middle East blame globalization for unemployment, rising inequality, pandemics, and terrorism. Because of these risks, they regard increased integration, openness, and innovation as more of a threat than an opportunity.

Some combination of financial support and differential treatment is essential to ensure openness is consistent with poverty alleviation.

This is a controversial topic and one which requires sensitivity and openness on the part of all interested stakeholders.

While some of the criticism calls for more openness and accountability in government, much of it is less inspiring to the rest of us. The critics ask often in pointed terms what the government is doing to safeguard the country s economic interests.

In fact, my colleague, June Cohen, has taken to calling it radical openness, because it works for us each time.

With the policy of openness, the proportion of women working for international organizations is on the rise, averaging over 50 .

For this, laws and institutions that protect property rights, encourage openness, improve financial governance and strengthen capital markets are needed.

It has free trade agreements with more than 20 countries and is a member of the nascent Trans Pacific Partnership. The economy has also benefited from its openness to foreign investment, with the stock of foreign direct investment in Chile topping 80 of GDP.

Yet if corporate moguls think that they no longer need to rely on their national governments, they are making a huge mistake. The reality is that the stability and openness of the markets that produce their wealth have never depended more on government action.

Meanwhile, relief from sanctions, together with the gradual return of international companies, kick starts Iran s ailing economy. Increased openness toward Europe and, more cautiously, the US encourages reform minded members of Iran s middle class to seek their future inside the country, rather than emigrating.

More importantly, the fears underlying the bicycle theory are wildly inflated. We live under the most liberal trade regime in history not because the WTO enforces it, but because important countries rich and poor alike find greater openness to be in their best interest.

Such a counter terrorism policy will not eliminate the scourge of terrorism any more than modern medicine can eliminate disease. But it does hold out the promise of reducing it to a scale that will not threaten the openness, security, or prosperity of modern societies.

Convinced that the improvement of international relations forms a sound basis for promoting further openness and transparency in all military matters,