The subtext of the public exchange between the two leaders was the subversive effects of a free market on a controlled socialist society -- something the Chinese and the Vietnamese call "peaceful evolution".
If Einstein had upended our everyday notions about the physical world with his theory of relativity, the younger man, Kurt Gödel, had had a similarly subversive effect on our understanding of the abstract world of mathematics.
She thinks that there is even the possibility for the ultra-cheap device – which has connectors for a keyboard, display, network and USB devices such as a hard drive – to have a "subversive" effect on the entire PC industry.
At the same time, the idea of the universe as a mechanism governed by a few simple and discoverable laws had a subversive effect on the concepts of a personal God and individual salvation that were central to Christianity.
Given the porous nature of communication between Hong Kong and the mainland, freedom granted to Hong Kong people to elect candidates not vetted by Beijing would have a subversive effect on China.
China and Russia have seen eye to eye on opposing what they see as the subversive effects of such ideas, which they believe the West is promoting in order to weaken them.
We review the evidence that progressive disease might not be due to absence of Th1, but rather to the subversive effect of an unusual Th2-like response, involving interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-4δ2.
And the subtler, inherently subversive effects are too numerous to imagine.
As Smith levelly acknowledges, the most impactful relationship between the secret state and writers during these years was not in any subversive effect the latter had on the former: rather, it was the way in which the former provided career boosts to the latter.
For 11 years, Mr. Teller and Mr. Jacobs have collaborated on advertising for the designer's namesake collections, usually to dazzlingly subversive effect -- Mr. Teller naked in bed with Charlotte Rampling, the tween-age Dakota Fanning striking disturbingly adult poses, Winona Ryder with a shopping bag.
