China s Aborted Openness

Openness isn't the end.

Openness alone can't drive change.

It increases our openness to change.

With loving kindness, with patience, with openness?

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.

Countries must therefore act in a spirit of openness and equality, acknowledge the diversity in the world, strengthen dialogue and exchanges among civilizations, resolve international and regional disputes through peaceful means and jointly build a world of harmony among all civilizations.

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.

The process of globalization in its positive sense is promoting world economic development through the unprecedented dynamic expansion of trade and economic relations and the widest possible openness in terms of information.

Openness is in this respect like pacifism just as we cannot embrace complete disarmament while others stand ready to use their weapons, so Woodrow Wilson s world of open diplomacy is a noble ideal that cannot be fully realized in the world in which we live.

Protectionism is no solution to the crisis, whereas a transatlantic free trade agreement would favor multilateralism and openness. In this sense, it is important to stress the work of the World Trade Organization, the best multilateral forum that the world has for resolving trade disputes.

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.

Globalization had placed the developing countries in a very difficult situation in terms of their adjustment to the new international economic scene and world economy, which was tending increasingly towards openness and free trade.

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.

The 4th World Internet Conference was held from December 3 to December 5 with the theme of Developing a Digital Economy, Promoting Openness and Sharing, and Working Together to Build a Cyberspace for a Shared Future.

Harbin, for example, prides itself on its history of tolerance and openness to foreigners. Elsewhere, Tel Aviv s official Web site celebrates, among other attractions, the city s progressive role as a world center for the gay community.

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

Multiculturalism has become a suspect term almost everywhere in the world nowadays, and particularly in Europe. People say things like I used to be for openness and toleration of difference, but now I see where it s leading.

Bush compares his goal in Iraq to the democratization of Japan after World War II. But Japan was a totally conquered, ethnically homogeneous country with no insurgency, a large middle class, and previous experience of political openness.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Noting the increasing openness of the Council of Europe, through its legal instruments, to the participation of States of other regions,

Noting the increasing openness of the Council of Europe, through its legal instruments, to the participation of States of other regions,

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

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called openness to experience.