China is hardly alone in its popular worries.
By suspending work on a controversial Chinese hydroelectric dam, he played to popular worries of Myanmar, with a population of 55 million, being exploited by its far larger neighbor.
I lurked on friends' Facebook pages — it's a law of the universe that once you become a parent, everyone else is one, too — and noted the most popular worries.
The broad unrest reflects popular worries about sagging growth and rising inflation as well as a reaction against Mr. Lee's attempts to push through new trade and regulatory policies favored by foreign investors and big businesses.
Indeed, one of the main barriers to another "green revolution" is unwarranted popular worries about genetically modified foods, which is holding back farm output not just in Europe, but in the developing countries that could use them to boost their exports.Political folly increases in a geometrical ratioAs so often, governments are making matters worse.
Some of the ACIA's experts are fretting over evidence of reduced density and salinity in waters near the Arctic that could adversely affect this current.The biggest popular worry, though, is that melting Arctic ice could lead to a dramatic rise in sea level.
There are, however, large differences between Mr Gore, who supports linking trade agreements to labour and environmental standards, and George W. Bush, who does not.So there is nothing obvious in the economy to explain the popular worries and the presidential race is not particularly stoking them.
But the way that Ukip's promises combine popular worries about migration with hostility to the EU – concerns that then feed on each other – makes for a closed argument that is hard for Cameron and his ministers to break (even if they wanted to, which is by no means certain).
A popular worry is the rising interest rate environment.
Webroot is tapping into a popular worry about the online safety.
