It worries that its firms would be unable to compete across an open border; American firms, it says, are already buying stakes in Mexican ones.
It worries that its leverage at the bargaining table will evaporate if Aftra members approve their contract by a solid margin.
It worries that the word "concessions"—resonant of the enclaves run by foreign companies that led to oil nationalisation in 1938 would break one taboo too many.
But besides having high production costs, it worries that supplies of its main raw material, iron ore, are becoming concentrated in the hands of a few giant mining groups.
It worries that the US and its allies will by sheer force of their military might, do whatever they want, unilaterally and without recourse to any rule-based code or doctrine.
These expectations have usually been disappointed, because both the party and the people in China are frightened of too much change – the party because it worries that it will lose its grip, and ordinary people because of the memory of the chaos and cruelty of earlier times.
Beijing strongly objects to the antimissile system because it worries that the United States will use its batteries' associated radar to snoop on China.
"It worries that if competing versions are allowed, then its legitimacy will be called into question".
It worries that any multilateral competition rules might undermine its domestic laws.
It worries that an ambitious Web meister will take its listing for, say, a set of Wedgwood china and the listings on all the other auction sites for a set of the same china and provide a new list for comparative shoppers.
First, because it worries that quantitative easing might be ineffective, thereby undermining its credibility.
