Decades of fast economic growth under one-party rule have made its people richer, but they feel painfully their lack of freedom and security, their inability to protect their prosperity.
To understand the broad truth that this country wants to continue to exist independently, but also wants to accept global realities enough to protect its prosperity, and then make a bloody decision?
Britain will leave the EU, but we must do so in a way the protects our prosperity and reduces risk.
After averring that protecting the prosperity of the middle class was "the defining issue of our time," Obama quickly moved on to the core of his political and ideological message: We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by.
No Lost Generation emphasizes that saving a generation of potential leaders, teachers, engineers, doctors and – above all- peacemakers - protects the prosperity of an entire society.
To protect their newfound prosperity from desperate Americans, Mexico is building its own wall now.
They will get the real thing only by building it, slowly and painfully, as they realise from bitter experience that they need social activism and a political voice to protect their growing prosperity.
In some his most pro-EU comments yet, Corbyn will say: "On 23 June we are faced with a choice: do we remain to protect jobs and prosperity in Britain that depend on trade with Europe?
We must work toward a world that trades in freedom, a world where prosperity is available to all through the power of markets, a world where open trade spurs the process of economic and legal reform, a world of cooperation to enhance prosperity, protect the environment and lift the quality of life for all.
Throughout his speech, Obama exalted the importance of collective effort -- through movements, and through government -- to promote economic prosperity, protect the disadvantaged, lift the poor out of hardship, and address the danger of climate change: "Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune".
