However, the shares of Americans who say that terrorism and job opportunities for all Americans are very big problems have declined substantially since November 2016, shortly before the presidential election. You might have ill will abroad, but you’ll have applause at home. Now, this point is largely untested—I know we’re speaking anecdotally here. Second topic: domestic stability, which fits together with economic progress. Four-in-ten urban residents say they expect the job situation in their local community to improve over the next decade, compared with 34% of suburbanites and 28% of those living in rural areas. As is the case in most countries, population density varies widely across India. Now, it’s interesting that as China has attained greater economic weight, it has tended to shift policy away from economics to political-military issues, which, to my mind, have far greater risk and cost than the economic issues. This report provides background on China's economic rise; describes its current economic structure; identifies the challenges China faces to maintain economic growth; and discusses the challenges, opportunities, and implications of China's ... Just 23% of Democrats cite illegal immigration as a very big problem, the lowest share for any of the 11 issues included in the survey. But if supposedly, both from a Western perspective and from a Confucian perspective, we say somebody in leadership carries special responsibility because he has national responsibilities to protect the country’s interests over the long term, so supposedly the leader sees something that might not be readily apparent to the general population. So it’s still a work in progress. Public Views on Climate and Energy.”, Most Republicans and Republican leaners are white, Next: 2. Views of the major problems facing the country When asked to consider the major problems facing the country, the affordability of health care and drug addiction top the American public’s list. Technology brings greater information flow, so people compare and collaborate and trade information and bad news spreads—not necessarily organized political activity, but at least the ability to be aware politically of what’s going on. When we look at China today, we see all of these unfolding. No, it didn’t fight with Russia; it didn’t cross the desert to fight with Afghanistan; it couldn’t get to Japan (maybe now it can); but the Chinese didn’t have a problem fighting with people where they could walk to, they just couldn’t get to anyplace else. AMB. Four Issues Facing China. It should be the dominant economy in the world. "Through exhaustive field research and interviews, Ellis inventories, country by country, China's rapidly expanding commercial and diplomatic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. In fact, fully 50% of lower-class adults say drug addiction is a major problem where they live. That’s the transition from totalitarian system, where the government has to run every aspect of your life, to an authoritarian system, where the government actually doesn’t care about what you do in your personal space, but the government will maintain control over the public space. So it’s a paradox of power: Sometimes your power is most effective when it’s not used. Specifically, can they have any impact on foreign policy? And, if you’re one of us, if you’re part of the team, then welcome; we can always work things out. It’s not necessarily that there’s measurable benefit for the average American, but it’s a statement of national pride that we consider ourselves a leading nation and we’re proud to host the world, and we want to show our best, and it’s an honor to win the competition. It’s not necessarily a foreign policy or a view of the world or view of the international system or view of state behavior; it’s simply maintaining China as a unified political entity. Some might say that is the bad news; but the good news is there are international mechanisms, so you don’t need those elements. Almost all Olympics throughout history have been in the West or in developed nations, so for the Olympics to go to Asia, and to a developing country, itself was quite unusual. But I think the record in recent years is mixed. Do they have any different views on these nationalist issues? One of my bits of advice to friends in Washington would be: Don’t promote provocative weakness, but stay with your friends and allies in the region so you’re always part of the discussion. Visit the Downdetector Methodology page to learn more about how Downdetector collects status information and detects problems. QUESTION: On that last point, are we drawing clear enough lines right now? More than four in ten extremely pro-life Americans (41%) say they would only vote for a candidate who shares their views, compared with 23% of extremely pro-choice Americans. However, food aid comes in various forms, and is often criticized for benefiting donors and their interests more than recipients. In urban and rural communities alike, about half see drug addiction as a top-tier problem: 50% and 46%, respectively, say this is a major problem in their local community. You play by the rules, you get ahead. Concerns about this issue don’t vary widely between whites and nonwhites, nor do they differ markedly by age. There are a handful of issues that are viewed similarly across partisan lines: Majorities in both parties say drug addiction is a very big problem, though Republicans are more likely than Democrats to express this view (68% vs. 61%). We think in general this is a bad idea. I get a lot of that now, and it helps shape some of my thoughts that I’ll share with you today. This is due to newswire licensing terms. It’s a delight to be here. About a third (34%) say they expect the availability of jobs where they live to be better 10 years from now, 20% say it will be worse and 45% say it will stay about the same. There’s an enormous amount of stability in East Asia now, and China’s probably the chief beneficiary of that stability. My take on the domestic stability side is also a bit bullish in the near term, that social stability is highly manageable. Among Democrats and Republicans, there are areas of ideological agreement – and some notable differences – on the severity of problems in the U.S. On climate change, liberal Democrats (84%) are significantly more likely than conservative and moderate Democrats (64%) to say this is a very big problem. LAVIN: That’s a very good point. This fellow was a ministerial-level member of the Chinese system and up for candidacy for the Politburo Standing Committee, so it was quite a public scandal to have someone that senior caught up in this element of corruption and malfeasance. That was simply the point that Secretary Clinton made, and I think she’s right on target to say it’s not good for anybody if it comes down to the use of force to change boundaries, or there should be other ways to resolve disputes. I’m optimistic by nature, I guess, and I’ve done a lot of work in China, so I may have more sympathy for the day-to-day issues in China. China would actually benefit from having more open discussion. On the minus side, there’s been a lot of rhetoric and incursions in East Asia regarding territorial disputes. Found inside – Page 50Annual budget heads would probably play a major role in determing fiscal ... Hence , it is difficult for us to come to grips with the problem facing Mexican ... Found insideUS-Mexico border region area has unique social, demographic and policy forces at work that shape the health of its residents as well as serves as a microcosm of migration health challenges facing an increasingly mobile and globalized world. So reform tends to be a lower-common-denominator exercise to protect strong leadership consensus, but that means moving slowly on policy areas. Are you controlling the horse or is the horse controlling you? AMB. On three of these four issues – illegal immigration, the deficit and terrorism – older adults are more likely than young people to regard them as very big problems. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues. I’d like to touch on each of these four and then offer my predictions on each one. QUESTION: I’m dean of the Lutheran College Washington Semester. Baseball Mexico. I think China would benefit from having these issues aired. What are the pitfalls we have to avoid? Found inside – Page 42Corn and wheat received the most irrigation of all four basic grains. ... observer of rural Mexico, argued that a major problem facing Mexican land reform ... According to political scientist Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto (2012), this focus stems from racial prejudice: “Let’s call a spade a spade. You really see the value of having independent newspapers or think tanks or people that might say, “You know, I think you might have it wrong.” You can come up with any policy somebody might advocate in Washington on taxes, on foreign policy, on any issue, and at least somebody here, hopefully thoughtfully, will say you might have it wrong and you can read up on it, you can have a discussion. The article you have been looking for has expired and is not longer available on our system. What kind of country does China want to be? (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main Found inside – Page 248Two winters ago , we had three major elevator explosions in the Gulf of Mexico that impaired our loading capacity . Îwo are back in service , and one will ... And, where is it taking you? Looking at respondents to 2020 and 2021 surveys reveals differences in vaccination rates based on where people turned most for COVID-19 news. The first difference is that the Chinese economy is performing well. So the government announces that it will place a chemical plant in a certain jurisdiction and people from that jurisdiction have a street protest and the government backs down, or something happens. But economically, since the U.S. may be starting to lean a little bit more toward looking into doing stuff and agreeing with things like the Kyoto Protocol with China possibly being one of the superpowers, the last to really seriously tackle this issue, how could this affect their economic policies, both domestic and international? I’m just reflecting the emotions of today. What to do? They want running room for their economy to grow. Pew Research Center now uses 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. You can test this, because stuff gets taken down. There’s a phrase we have from international relations which is “provocative weakness”—a bit counterintuitive because we think about provocative strength or bellicosity, but there’s also provocative weakness. What I try to do, and where I’ve gotten some success, is to not make a moral or philosophical argument for liberalism or human rights, but just to make a very practical argument, to say that one of the contributing elements of stability in China, one of the foundations of the social contract is that people are increasingly able to live life on their terms, and, indeed, that provides a high degree of personal satisfaction. Most Republicans and Republican leaners are white; the share of nonwhites in the GOP is far smaller than among Democrats.). The risk is that there’s so much cohesion that they suffer from insularity that they don’t have divergent points of view, and the risk is that you get this aversion to change or aversion to experiment that plagues closed political systems, that it actually might be better if they had a broader range of views. You have treaties, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization, and other kinds of coordinating mechanisms so you can actually work out peaceful arrangements with your neighbors in a way that a thousand years ago you really couldn’t. Examining new and rich information on episodes of political turmoil, military interventions, forced presidential resignations, constitutional reforms and social uprisings, this book will be required reading for all those interested in the ... About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Over the years, experts have identified four main behaviors, coined the four functions of management, that all successful managers exhibit. Views of government and the nation. The educational divides in views about these local problems are less consistent than the racial divides across community types. So I have to bridge the gap between short-term and emotionalism and long-term national interest. I’ll tell you something; it’s hard to measure. Found insideIn her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of ... After the Fall of Afghanistan, the U.S. Must Re-Engage with Central Asia, An Agenda for the 2021 Quad Summit: Five Next Steps, How A Rising China Complicates Europe’s Future. I don’t expect them to sit down each morning and ask, “How can we come up with a decision that Americans are going to like?” That’s not my point. Narrower majorities say the affordability of a college education (55%) and the federal budget deficit (53%) are very big problems in the country. What’s interesting to me is that these developments play very well to domestic audiences, but as per my earlier point, it’s hard to see how they help China’s overall foreign policy. Found inside – Page vPREFACE During the past ten years we have seen major changes in both the ... it is identified currently as one of the major problems facing the country . Perceptions about local job conditions differ not only by community type but also by key demographic characteristics. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. Fewer than half of those ages 30 to 49 (38%) and only about a quarter of those younger than 30 (23%) say the same. Americans’ satisfaction with and attachment to their communities. There’s a general point here: Be careful about mounting that horse of emotional nationalism, because it’s very hard to dismount. How does this play out?” So I think that thinking through how China’s foreign policy can make that transition from domestic constituencies to national interest analysis that is the challenge for Beijing. Other issues, including illegal immigration and climate change, are seen as less pressing, due in part to stark partisan disagreements over the importance of these issues. Historically, China has been a peaceful nation in respect to its neighbors, where it hasn’t initiated a war or a huge offensive. Somewhat smaller shares of the public cite other issues as very big problems for the country. 4 shocking claims we learned from the new Britney Spears documentary. China needs to shift away from an export-driven economy to more of a consumption model. China, I don’t think is militaristic or bellicose, but it doesn’t hesitate to let smaller neighbors know that they’re smaller neighbors. LAVIN: You’ve raised a really interesting and somewhat complicated set of issues. Third point: leadership cohesion. A lot of concern about corruption; that feeds into the anti-elite tendency. I wouldn’t draw the conclusion that America was intrinsically pacific; I’d say we fought with anybody we could reach. When it comes to job opportunities for all Americans, 53% of black adults say this is a very big problem for the country today, compared with smaller shares of Hispanics (31%) and whites (18%). In general, black and Hispanic adults tend to be more likely than whites to assign high importance to a range of issues. I know that leading up to the Beijing Olympics, one of the concerns was the amount of pollution, smog, and carbon emissions. Yet there are wide ideological differences among white Democrats: 78% of white liberals see inequality as a very big problem, compared with 56% of white conservative and moderate Democrats. Why would a country advocate or follow a policy that doesn’t appear to be in its own best interest? Among Republicans, 28% of moderates and liberals say climate change is a very big problem compared with an even smaller share of conservatives (11%). That’s not a bad deal in a society. The farmers and ranchers who supply the nation with hamburgers, pork … There are also socio-economic divides on several of these problems. So the two most useful or more common elements over 5,000 years aren’t easily available now. I was wondering what you think the goal of U.S. foreign policy should be in regards to China. Rural residents are also significantly more likely to say access to public transportation is a major problem where they live. Let me boil it down to a question asked by a friend. I’d say, third, we have to draw a line where U.S. core interests are at stake, such as territorial disruption or something of that nature. This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. How does this help China advance its interests, and what is the upshot of this move? Republicans, by contrast, are more likely to say illegal immigration is a very big problem. (+1) 202-419-4372 | Media Inquiries. I don’t have that impression from the Arab states. There’s certainly a princeling class of people who are in positions of authority because of their fathers, but there’s not an inherited government in the Syrian sense. When you think about it, as ideology declines as an organizing principle in China, cohesion itself becomes perhaps the supreme value. For example, 32% of adults without a bachelor’s degree say poverty is a major problem where they live, compared with 24% of those who have a four-year college degree or more. If you start smashing police cars, they might want to talk to you, but if you’re just having a street protest, that’s fine. We know this euphemistically from the expression that power abhors a vacuum, that you induce bad behavior if you don’t show strength or you don’t show resolve. For instance, 43% say this about illegal immigration and 39% say this about terrorism. LAVIN: You’re right; I framed my remarks initially to say that China and the U.S. are the two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. But also, you probably had a lot of people say, there’s a chance for a better life, just to get this steel mill going, so let’s not be too fussy about it. You remember there were rather colorful elements of the scandal where the police chief fled to the American consulate and sought political asylum, and Bo Xilai was arrested; his wife was arrested—and convicted of murder. Overall, 22% of adults with a bachelor’s degree or more education say this is a major problem in their local community, compared with 35% of those with some college or less education. Traffic, on the other hand, is a much bigger problem for those living in cities (36% say this is a major problem) or suburbs (29%) than it is for adults living in a rural area (13%). What’s their power? But wage rates have been bid up, as happens; the Chinese are victims of their own success, you could say. There’s a bit of a paradox to economic progress. You could say, “Look, I understand this as an emotional undertaking; I understand the reaction, I understand what you’re doing.” What I don’t understand is from a foreign policy perspective, how does this help China? We see in our own society and other Western societies that, in the long run, human aspirations and material wants consistently outstrip governments’ ability to provide. About the same share (26%) calls sexism a very big problem. Found insideThis volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social networks. In summary, I’m generally optimistic. Similarly, while about one-in-five adults without a four-year college degree (17%) say access to high-speed internet is a major problem in their community, only 8% of college graduates say the same. It provides insight on government decision-making, but it doesn’t necessarily give a broader picture of society or of the enormous transformation the country is undergoing. In the short run, then, I think you say it’s a factor for stability; in the long run, it might be somewhat destabilizing. Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, 52% of whites say racism is a very big problem for the country, compared with larger shares of black (79%) and Hispanic (70%) Democrats. When conformity is required, when it’s obligatory, the give and take of statecraft becomes more difficult. Smaller shares of those 30 to 49 (47%), 50 to 64 (42%) and 65 and older (44%) place the same level of importance on the issue. His program voiced the rationale for the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1917: Effective suffrage, No re-election. Now in a precise translation one may read the true story of Madero's political program - a milestone in Mexican History." There is a lot of common ground, particularly in trade and investment, so I think it’s important to connect with China as much as we can. Found inside – Page 5This is, then, an opportune moment at which to reflect upon the consequences of economic liberalization and the major development challenges facing Mexico. The educational divides in views about these local problems are less consistent than the racial divides across community types. The most striking age gap, by far, in opinions among Republicans is on illegal immigration: Republicans ages 65 and older are 50 percentage points more likely than those younger than 30 to say illegal immigration is a very big problem for the country (85% vs. 35%). Roughly one-in-five across community types say they expect the job situation to get worse where they live. If you have a system that allows protests, you actually have a more stable system than a system that didn’t allow them. Food aid is a crucial part of helping tackle world hunger. It has an unclear ability to undertake cost-benefit analysis; it has very limited information flow and it has very disparate decision silos, so you don’t always end up, to my mind, with good decisions. It needs to be mindful about funding its state-owned enterprises, about subsidizing state-owned companies. Just 15% of Republicans ages 30 and older say climate change is a very big problem for the country. It is common for some problems to be reported throughout the day. I think it raises questions about government priorities and government decision-making. The fourth point to touch on is foreign policy. In rural areas, where a higher share overall says jobs are a problem, 53% of nonwhites and 38% of whites characterize this as a major problem. If you’re sitting in Taiwan, it doesn’t matter to you that they haven’t invaded, as a matter of course, their neighbors over the years. by Bruce Baskin August 30, 2021 - Mexican League (ML). It needs to lessen its reliance on low-end manufacturing and move up the value chain. There’s room for debate. Background: The Major Church. Fewer than one-in-ten say affording health care is a small problem (6%) or not a problem at all (2%). Found insideThe information revolution is leading to the rise of network forms of organization in which small, previously isolated groups can communicate, link up, and conduct coordinated joint actions as never before. One is: Continue the policy of engagement. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins, Biden Loses Ground With the Public on Issues, Personal Traits and Job Approval, The Religious demography of Indian states and territories, Americans who relied most on Trump for COVID-19 news among least likely to be vaccinated, Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border are at a 21-year high, What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities, Next: 5. People discuss reform versus status quo. President Michael Dimock explains why. Majorities of Democrats say all three are very big problems, compared with fewer than a quarter of Republicans. Similarly, adults with annual household incomes of less than $30,000 are about twice as likely as those with incomes of $75,000 or higher to say the availability of jobs is a major problem in their community (43% vs. 20%).
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