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And, because China’s reputation in the region is untainted by a legacy of imperialism, they may be in a rather advantageous position to do so.
In essence, Dmitriy Rogozin is currently the only real political orator in Russia - a highly advantageous position, particularly in an era of mediocrity.
With this in mind, the North Koreans’ motives in playing the nuclear trump card are clear, and the timing couldn’t have seemed more advantageous for them: force the Americans into making concessions while the situation in Iraq leaves the US with no room for maneuver, and undercut the rising call in Japan for economic sanctions against North Korea over the abduction issue.
To buy half of the Piraeus harbor at a knockdown price may seem more advantageous than investing in the long-term consolidation of the Greek economy and its finances, but is that really the case?
From America’s perspective, this can often be advantageous.
The US has cast aside one of its most important foreign policy tools, creating an incentive for the Syrian government and its supporters to keep fighting until they are in the most advantageous position possible to negotiate a settlement – that is, if they have any incentive to negotiate at all.
But, while the pursuit of self-interest may be advantageous in certain contexts, it is not the only, or even the principal, driver of human behavior – and it is not conducive to overcoming today’s most pressing global issues.
In the integration process, governments believe they know what they are doing, they believe they have discrete choices, they believe they can broadly predict the consequences of the bargain being offered, and if they step forward, it is because they believe the bargain will be advantageous.
Voters were promised an advantageous trade deal with Europe (Britain’s biggest market), lower immigration, and more money for the National Health Service and other cherished public goods and services.
On bank re-capitalizations, some countries adopted the more punitive approach of quasi-nationalization, while others lent public bailout funds on very advantageous terms, linking re-capitalization to the development of credit or the restriction of dividends.
Given the persistent visa and border-crossing hurdles, US companies may find it more advantageous to offshore their production and jobs.
And, while the large autocracies, Russia and China, find it diplomatically advantageous to tweak the Americans, both have different but crucial relationships with the United States.
It is also problematic that, in many countries, debt receives advantageous tax treatment, which favors leverage over equity and profit/loss-sharing arrangements.
Of course, what is advantageous today may be problematic tomorrow: Europe and Japan will face severe problems when their demographic pyramids tilt towards the elderly, eliminating the temporary demographic advantage they have relative to the US today.
This might be advantageous for Bush’s domestic purposes, but as a foreign policy, it will only escalate the risk of a Middle East explosion.
Given these connections, it would be surprising if Putin did not see a Trump victory as advantageous for Russia.
They do business in whatever country is most advantageous.
Big banks’ executives often want to increase their institutions’ leverage, typically because they have various forms of guarantee – in particular, deposit insurance and access to central-bank financing on advantageous terms.
Banks would then find it advantageous to hold their surplus liquidity in the form of T-bills as long as these bills yielded more than bank deposits held at the ECB.
In many ways these developments were advantageous, but they made currencies more vulnerable and fixed exchange rates more problematic.
Finally, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which drove a wedge between the Kremlin and the West, Turkey had carved out a strategically advantageous position between the two sides.
It is unprecedented for a country to abandon a highly advantageous geopolitical and economic position simply because it is experiencing a prolonged identity crisis.
Given that females bear the physical burden of offspring, an unobtrusive appearance is more advantageous – and thus more common – in nature.
Advancing this plan will enable optimized use of existing member-state resources – thereby securing advantageous economic synergies – as well as precise identification of the additional resources required to achieve our goals.
There is something deeply unappealing about yoking countries together when being unyoked is more advantageous.
Occasionally, however, a slightly modified gene product proves adaptively advantageous, and a new protein is born.
Managing social and political inclusion is not difficult for states blessed with an advantageous position along one of the world’s major trade routes, traditions of cosmopolitanism and commerce, massive oil wealth, and small national populations.
Nonetheless, the timing of the current ceasefire, which coincides with the installation of a new EU Commission, is advantageous, as is Putin’s shortsighted emphasis on tactical victories.
As protests began last year, the grass-roots nature of the Green Movement was initially thought to be advantageous, given that it could not be easily decapitated.
Faced with the impossibility of advantageous accession to Euro-Atlantic institutions, Russia is drifting fast towards alignment with China – a “younger brother,” though a respected one.
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