Certainly there is a sense among Mr Chen's closest supporters that Taiwan has shown weakness, and that the ever-greater inter-linking of the two economies, which Taiwan has promoted, benefits China without it paying any diplomatic price.
The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
Fair publishing models by commercial publishers and open access efforts are needed to promote benefit sharing in knowledge production between north and south.
Rather, the fundamental criterion of right is to promote benefit and eliminate harm to everyone.
The third of the "three models" is also grounded in the norms that tian follows, specifically the norm of promoting benefit to all.
They are alike in that both kinds of ethic stress impartial concern and judgment of what is right in terms of promoting benefit and avoiding harm.
A different ethical guideline might promote "benefit to the world" equally or more effectively, without the stringent demand that everyone be as concerned for others' interests as for their own.
To some extent, then, the norms have a real basis in perceptual experience and in whatever strategies actually work, in practice, to promote "benefit," which the early Mohists understood as wealth, population, and social order.
Heads of civil society organisations have said encouraging openness in countries with higher levels of corruption should be more about promoting benefits than imposing sanctions.
To promote benefits like these, the Soave growers' consortium has created a marketing group to bring together a number of Italian volcanic wine terroirs, including Soave, Etna, the Campi Flegrei near Naples and the island of Ischia.
To promote benefits is to relieve poverty, increase the population, and promote stability and order.
