Chinese leaders, the report asserted, view this as a time to "focus on internal development while avoiding direct confrontation," although they expect tension, competition, and territorial flare-ups from time to time, and they do not expect the status quo, however satisfactory they find it, to last indefinitely.
"Mobile has reopened the entire website building market," the founder asserted, viewing their market as the 75percentt of U.S. small businesses, such as event planners, that still don't have a unique website.
The presentation, seen by some as hastily prepared, extolled the benefits of being open with executives and told traders to "assert your views," according to a copy of the document reviewed by The New York Times.
He himself had shown no reluctance to assert his views as a young man, when, according to The Washington Post magazine, he argued with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about a policy of strict nonviolence in the face of brutality during civil rights demonstrations.
"Ahmadinejad is looking for a public stage to both proclaim his own importance in the Iranian leadership and assert his views in a very public way for the first time since the Arab awakening," said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution.
So it will be interesting to see, as the future of the monarchy becomes a more contested issue, and as republicans begin to assert their views more regularly, whether or not those freedoms extend to republicans, or whether, like in Spain, those of us who call for a democratic alternative to the monarchy will be prosecuted and silenced.
Still, Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris have enabled lawmakers concerned about encryption to assert their views more forcefully.
This means writers, bloggers, journalists and cartoonists are all equally at high risk of being targeted by religious extremists should they assert dissenting views.
This tends to be politically inconvenient for kings, popes and ideologues, who want to assert their views without having to provide evidence.
If feasible, training older patients to be active participants (with particular emphasis on helping those who are most vulnerable, and those who may be initially reluctant to assert their views) can be an important component of successful care.
