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American culture, I explained, judges extra-marital affairs very harshly, so a senior official caught in such a position could easily be subject to blackmail – something that a CIA director, of all people, must avoid.
One definition of politics says that it is the conduct of public affairs, concern for them, and their administration.
Obviously, concern for public affairs means concern for humanity and the world.
They are determined to limit Hindu Tamil power in Sri Lankan affairs and encourage the country's leaders to make few concessions to Tamil autonomy.
In addition, China wants to strengthen cooperation with India in regional and global affairs.
There are three possible responses to this state of affairs.
In a brilliant essay, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein argues that Trump’s unpredictable intrusion into companies’ affairs will undermine the market economy itself.
Clinton’s primary challenge as secretary of state was to recast the very nature of US involvement in global affairs.
For starters, it is clear that the EU needs its own comprehensive inquiry into Russian interference in European affairs, along the lines of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in the United States.
Meanwhile, the monetary union remains an unstable disequilibrium: either the eurozone moves toward fuller integration (capped by political union to provide democratic legitimacy to the loss of national sovereignty on banking, fiscal, and economic affairs), or it will undergo disunion, dis-integration, fragmentation, and eventual breakup.
With a narcissistic personality and a short attention span, and lacking experience in world affairs, he tends to project slogans rather than strategy in foreign policy.
Fortunately, this state of affairs is not set in stone.
Compounding this trend, rising powers such as China and India place great value on national sovereignty and non-interference in domestic affairs.
In the early stages of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, Kenneth Rogoff and I noted that recovery from severe financial crises are protracted affairs, as it takes time for households and firms to work down the debts accumulated during the boom.
He added that all countries, big and small, have an equal right to participate in regional security affairs and share a responsibility to maintain regional stability.
In particular, the US-Japan alliance is undergoing historic transformation, with renewed guidelines for defense cooperation that allow for greater Japanese autonomy in security affairs – and that present China as the main adversary.
In this case, the CCP’s view of rejuvenation is built on the belief that the zenith of Chinese power under the Ming and Qing dynasties represents the natural, just, and permanent state of affairs for a 5,000-year-old civilization.
To a people imbued with a deep sense of superior moral worth, historical achievement, and victimization by foreign powers, this state of affairs is unjust and unnatural.
What we thought was a transitional phase has become a permanent state of affairs.
This right to a private life, including extramarital affairs, has always been a sacred cow of French politics.
But, like French hauteur in international affairs, the end of an era may be at hand.
It is thus simultaneously an opportunity for the EU to assert itself, at long last, as an effective force in world affairs.
No one expects the current Japanese and Chinese leaders to embrace, as Nakasone and Hu did two decades ago, but it is a sad state of affairs when the leaders of neighboring giants pretend not to see each other at international forums.
With Muslims becoming a bigger factor in Russian domestic politics in the decades ahead, it may be wise for Russia to take an interest in Middle East affairs.
Here goes:Dear World: Not all Americans pay attention to foreign affairs.
This logic is written into countless European Union reports, and is even gaining traction in the United States, despite the “America First” approach to international affairs embraced by President Donald Trump’s administration.
But, as Turkey moves to shape Middle Eastern affairs, it looks less like a robust nation-state than like a bumptious regional power that has learned little and forgotten less.
Until now, the president has toed a hard line on Iraq, on Lebanon, and in domestic affairs.
Given America’s diminished capacity to provide global leadership, it must rely more than ever on its allies to ensure that regional and global affairs hew to its ideals and interests – which include preserving the Pax Americana that has shaped East Asian affairs since WWII.
It was Cohen who told the New York prosecutors that, “at the direction of” Trump (whom the legal documents refer to as “Individual 1”), he arranged to pay off two women who had had affairs with the president while he was married to Melania (including just after she had given birth to their son, Barron).
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