And indeed, Mexico, although cross at the prospect of losing $800m a year of hard currency, has already understood that high international charges cut both ways.
Perhaps Europe has already understood that; Mrs. Merkel was not pushing for China to allow its currency to rise, which would make its goods less competitive around the world.
"But this guy has already understood that he would swap his bows and arrows [for] computers if he wanted to save his forest".
It knows who you are, what you've already understood (or not) and decides what you're going to see next based on your performance.
"I think working in Africa is both brave and smart: Brave because we are currently investing our time and money in building know-how in these parts of the world; and smart because Africa is the next big market, as the Chinese have already understood before anyone else," he said.
So, in the stormy mood of RS Hughes's Y Dymestl, the young Terfel had already understood something he would later bring to his interpretation of The Flying Dutchman; in WS Gwynn Williams's Tosturi Duw, the dulcet tone he brought to the word melyster (sweetness) was long-practised.
The director of the slack, repetitive "The Shawshank Redemption" and the sanctimonious electric-chair pageant "The Green Mile" instructs us in points that we have already understood; he gives religious uplift to outrageously corny scenes; he turns African-Americans into dashboard saints; and, in general, he paces his movies more slowly than the funeral of Edward VII.
I had already understood from the response to my own book, Somewhere Towards the End, that the taboo on the subject of death, so heavy in my youth, was evaporating, and this was a striking example of how true this is.
What I think two things I'd say, Steve, is one is it's important, we don't hear much about this, but, the banks have already understood the direction we're going in.
