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In my view, US negotiators will use the threat of imposing the tariffs on Chinese producers as a way to persuade China’s government to abandon the policy of “voluntary” technology transfers.
To ensure that the recent overthrow of its government by the Shia Houthi rebel movement does not deal Yemen the lethal blow that it has avoided so far, the international community must not abandon the country in what may be its hour of greatest need.
If the answer is no, it may be best to restore the sovereignty of individual European nation-states, give up on the common currency, and abandon a dream that is threatening to become a nightmare.
Once we abandon arguments based on potential, the claim that it is wrong to kill embryos and fetuses must be based on the nature of those entities themselves – that they are actual human beings who already possess the characteristics that make killing wrong.
Iran was so desperate to ramp up its oil exports that it agreed to abandon its nuclear program (strikingly, the Iran nuclear deal mentions the word “oil” 65 times).
Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff, also writing at the start of the Trump presidency, foresaw that Republicans, having taken control of the White House and both houses of Congress, would abandon their lip service to fiscal rectitude and pursue economic growth through massive deficit spending, tax cuts, or both.
Indeed, in withdrawing from the six-party talks, North Korea did not completely abandon the possibility of resolving the nuclear standoff through dialogue.
We in the wealthy West do not have the right to abandon this task, and we must welcome in the same community of destiny all democratic countries east to Russia if they fulfill the EU’s criteria.
And how can Asia’s other powers trust that the US will support their legitimate security concerns, rather than abandon them to effective Finlandization under Chinese domination?
The major global powers are still trying negotiations and sanctions to induce Iran to abandon its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
As Latin America, the Philippines and others abandon import substitution and adjust to the international market economy, business interests change as well.
Neither America nor Europe should abandon their policies to the populists’ dangerous virtual reality.
Robert Rubin and Kent Conrad warned him that the press would not interpret his testimony as being balanced, and that Congress would interpret it as an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline.
Moreover, the southern EU countries, instead of leaving prices unchanged, could abandon austerity and issue an ever greater volume of new bonds to stimulate the economy.
It is impossible to advance toward political union while seeming to abandon Europe’s citizens along the way, which is the impression that unremitting austerity has created.
Worldwide, the detentions at Guantanamo Bay and President Bush's military tribunals have become symbols of America's readiness to abandon concern for rights in the name of the struggle against terrorism.
Pregnant HIV-infected IDUs transmit the virus to their babies, and sometimes – shockingly often in Russia – abandon their newborns, relinquishing them to the state.
But we should not rush to abandon bio-fuels, despite some undoubtedly poor policies in recent years.
Myrna, an anthropologist, studied the populations of Mayans and other indigenous Guatemalans forced to abandon their ancestral homes during the worst years of the country's civil war.
Many will not abandon their religion, so Europeans must learn to live with them and with Islam.
And European Union officials must abandon their obsession with driving all member countries toward an “ever-closer union” that many of their citizens do not want.
But doing that would require the government to abandon its ideological position and challenge powerful interest groups.
The Fed has printed new bank reserves with reckless abandon.
But Japan’s economic frontiers extend well beyond Asia and the Pacific, to Latin America and Africa – more reason to abandon our long-held inward-looking perspective.
Nor will she abandon special relations with Russia, to which every German chancellor since Adenauer has attached major importance.
Moreover, while Hamas’s long truce with Israel shows that it may be willing to abandon violence given the right amount of persuasion, it can make itself a terrible nuisance if it continues to be excluded.
The Annapolis conference could indeed achieve a firm commitment to the future involvement of all major Palestinian political forces in any future peace negotiations, coupled with the recommendation that these should start with an equally firm pledge to abandon violence by all parties to the conflict.
It would be a monumental error of statesmanship to turn our back on Europe and abandon a crucial position of power and influence in the twenty-first century.
His eloquent resignation letter made clear that he objected not just to the Syrian blunder, but to a pattern of behavior: Trump’s confusion of allies and opponents; his willingness to abandon friends, such as the Kurds; and his trashing of alliances, such as NATO.
He screams at subordinates at will and scapegoats them with abandon.
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