While growing political and economic ties with China have benefited the North, he is probably uncomfortable with his country's increasing dependence on Beijing.
This is also the result of the government's bolsa familia poverty alleviation programme, the growing influence of the landowners lobby in congress and the increasing dependence of the economy on commodity exports.
"I am frightened by the judicial system's increasing dependence on these very authorities.
What really troubles me is our theatre's increasing dependence on America.
"It could also cut significantly our country's increasing dependence on imported fossil fuels," he added.
The agency's own future was threatened, it cautioned, by a shortage of cash and an increasing dependence on borrowing.
But for BP, the increasing dependence on deepwater drilling poses its own risks.
And the increasing dependence on tuition has disturbing implications for access to higher education, she said.
The nation's increasing dependence on crops for motor fuel adds another level of vulnerability from the weather.
The increasing dependence on more expensive unconventional sources with lower EROI has a fundamentally negative economic impact from which there is no easy escape.
Remember in the 1990s when cyborg theorists talked about our increasing dependence on technology, about post-physical humans, and about computers with emotions?
