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On the other side was the Chinese solution, with increasingly costly reserve management giving way to activist sovereign wealth funds looking for strategic participation in investments abroad.
In times of crisis, SWFs not only invest a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.
SWFs like to portray themselves as independent institutions, yet it is clear that, once domestic economies falter, they cannot ignore the combined pressures of the media, public, and politicians at home, all of whom question the wisdom of investing domestic wealth abroad in times of crisis.
And liberal democracies’ apparent inability to protect their citizens from infringement of their individual rights has undermined their standing at home and abroad.
But it is in America’s national interest to ensure that the Vienna Convention is respected – without question and as a matter of routine – in order to ensure the safety and inviolability of its own missions abroad.
Rather than scaring global corporations and their home states, China would retain strong political support abroad – and the financing that it needs for its continued development.
Borrowing from abroad can boost a country’s growth, but also leave it vulnerable to crises.
While emerging economies should aim to emulate these two countries’ educational and health achievements, they should also try to emulate the way Singapore and South Korea paid for all those schools and hospitals: by borrowing abroad and running external deficits whenever necessary.
Still, a majority of French citizens remain deeply concerned about the threat of terrorism not just from abroad, but from people living in France, often with French citizenship.
In 2012, soon after Putin’s return to the presidency, the Duma enacted the so-called foreign agent law, which focused on silencing organizations that receive funding from abroad and engage in anything that can be labeled “political activity.”
Nevertheless, highlighting Obama’s ability to get things done abroad is more than an attempt at distraction; it also sends the message that the domestic-policy impasse is not his fault.
Exercising a louder voice in politics at home and abroad could mean reduced uncertainty for Chinese exporters.
These would be extraterritorial rights and responsibilities, just as the United States, for example, provides for its large numbers of expatriates, such as civilian dependents of US military personnel based abroad.
The Chinese authorities refused Liu’s request, made just weeks before his death, to seek treatment abroad for his aggressive cancer, and his wife remains under house arrest.
It has carried out vendettas abroad and is believed to have murdered a host of opponents – including journalists, activists, and political leaders – at home.
Until recently, Russia's robust opposition to the idea posed a serious obstacle, because it sharpened the impression that Russia regarded its so-called "near abroad" as a zone of special interest and influence.
Russia is hypersensitive about challenges to its influence in what it calls its “near abroad” of former Soviet satellites.
Either the desired service is performed from abroad – telemarketing, for example – or the work is sent abroad for processing and later imported to the home country (in Europe, more and more industrial work is being outsourced from West to East).
Moreover, remittances by Colombians working abroad grew 8% in 2008, a surprising result when compared to countries such as Mexico and Ecuador, where remittances have fallen.
The agreement was a sort of follow-up to the visit to Beijing of Dmitry Medvedev, who made China one of his first official trips abroad after being elected Russia’s president.
In Bangladesh, for example, just 13% of households that receive remittances from abroad are below the poverty line, compared to 34% of non-remittance-receiving households.
Under full renationalization, Italian investors would sell their foreign assets and acquire domestic bonds, which would insulate Italy from financial shocks abroad and lower the interest-rate burden for the economy as a whole.
Perhaps they heard the message of the Arab Spring, or simply understood that, with more than three million Burmese living abroad, it was impossible to isolate the country from the rest of the world or prevent ideas from seeping in from its neighbors.
The geopolitical danger arises from Putin’s growing reliance on military action abroad – in Ukraine and now in Syria – to maintain his popularity at home, using the domestic media (now almost entirely under Kremlin control) to extol Russia’s global importance.
In terms of the economy, the effects of Romney’s policies in creating a more unequal and divided society would not be directly felt abroad.
American “exceptionalism” may sell well at home, but it does poorly abroad.
They would not mind an America that was more modest abroad and more ambitious at home.
But most of China’s high-tech investments so far have been abroad – in sectors ranging from electronics and biotechnology to software and nanotechnology – which won’t change its value-chain ranking.
Most of its savings were being invested abroad, and its domestic net investment share was among the lowest of all OECD countries.
But those macroeconomic outcomes result from policy decisions abroad and the market-clearing movements of financial prices.
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