Rather than chasing growth at any cost, his government has imposed regulations on shadow banking, persevered with curbs on property speculation, and clamped down on government extravagance, such as the schmoozing and boozing, kowtowing and Maotai-ing that accompanies so much official business.As China's economy matures, its pace will slow.
The British government is proposing to ask Parliament to ban the procedure, and a cynical interpretation of this non-decision might be that a supposedly independent authority is kowtowing to government whim (see article).
To extradite Mr Lugovoi or try him at home would be kowtowing to the West (and betraying a KGB ex-colleague); by doing nothing, he may seem to be protecting a murder suspect.The Russian leader may feel he has little to lose by antagonising the West.
They did not know the truth: that Kim lost his war, fled east and later slinked home in a Soviet uniform, kowtowing to Stalin until his death.
Naturally, Mr Bush cannot be seen to be kowtowing to every powerful senator with a bee in his bonnet.
His task is to rescue a bilateral relationship that has gone sour, without for a moment giving Canadians back home the impression that their new government is in any way kowtowing to the superpower.Over the course of a dozen years of Liberal government north of the 49th parallel, Canada's access to the highest levels in Washington has been steadily eroded.
But he started off on a negative note, by criticising Barack Obama for kowtowing to China, betraying Israel, and so on.
SURE, it's hard not to wince a little to see photos of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton kowtowing to Al Sharpton last weekend, speaking before his National Action Network in a quest for "the black vote .Just where anyone gets the idea that any significant segment of black America takes its cue from Mr Sharpton as to how to vote is unclear.
Far from kowtowing to the fabled tyrants of the podium, the LSO often talked back.
She is said to be courting Armageddon by adhering slavishly to Germany's sound-money dogmas and kowtowing to taxpayers who cannot see why the preservation of the euro should be worth paying something for.
