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The exceptions to this state of affairs are when the Party initiates a propaganda campaign, such as the one associated with the turnover of Hong Kong in 1997, or the more recent anti-Falun Gong blitzkrieg.
This state of affairs is reproduced inside individual families: young people of 30 survive thanks to the work of the head of the family, who supports everyone.
For years, there was a serious debate in China about the state’s proper role in economic affairs.
In domestic affairs, no German government can avoid the Bundestags powerful committees and commissions, or force them to behave as the government wishes.
Asia’s Military RevolutionSEOUL – A vast revolution in military affairs is taking place across East Asia.
Such efforts have not always been popular with Indonesia’s ASEAN partners, owing to concerns that they breach ASEAN’s rule of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs.
Africa’s Manmade Water CrisisSINGAPORE – About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened by Lindiwe Hendricks, South Africa’s then-minister of water and environmental affairs, we predicted that an unprecedented water crisis would hit one of the country’s main cities within 15 years, unless water-management practices were improved significantly.
Cypriots must seize this chance to build a healthy, reunited country that can make the most of its economic potential in the region, and play its part in world affairs with confidence and security.
Moreover, ASEAN is seeking to forge a clearer position on key international issues to heighten its standing on world affairs.
Indeed, America's superpower status makes it increasingly disadvantageous for its leaders to play by rules that, while repeatedly violated in the past, are now viewed as preventing the US from assuming a new role in international affairs.
Despite China’s greater weight in world affairs, Xi faces internal strains that make China more fragile than is generally understood.
But the world can be confident that the US will remain stronger, wealthier, and more influential in global affairs than China even in 2030.
Asia’s two giants have long defined their relationship in terms of the famous Pancha Sheela: mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty; mutual non-aggression; mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful co-existence.
The updated principles would maintain strategic communication and healthy bilateral relations; harness each other’s strengths and expand cooperation in infrastructure, investment, and other areas; deepen cultural ties and increase mutual understanding and friendship; expand coordination and collaboration in multilateral affairs to safeguard developing countries’ legitimate interests and address global challenges; and accommodate each other’s core concerns and reconcile bilateral disagreements amicably.
This poses dramatic questions about the place of democratic values in international affairs, about the effectiveness of action in support of democracy, and about the way in which democracy is to be understood.
The second problem is that the sheer weight of the US in international affairs, though diminished nowadays, has nonetheless led to a corruption of the principles that should underpin a new climate-change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
Indeed, a major problem with the current state of affairs is the weakness of EU institutions that are in charge of advancing the common interest and that are accountable to Europeans as a whole.
This state of affairs does not hurt only women; it undermines everyone’s prospects.
No one can be sure that Trump won’t take some dramatic action – whether related to international affairs or to the Russia investigation – during his sojourn in Palm Beach.
But, far from restoring the status quo ante, killing the deal would leave America with little credibility in Middle Eastern affairs.
America’s ability to reaffirm its centrality in global affairs depends on the answer.
Until recently, Putin showed little interest in Crimean affairs, beyond renewing the lease on the Black Sea Fleet’s base in Sevastopol.
She is also suspected of interfering in various state affairs, including ministerial appointments and state visits, despite having no official position.
It is the desire to reject this state of affairs that, above all else, explains the “No” many French people want to shout.
As human affairs become increasingly complex and morally exigent, future generations will need both scientific and humanistic learning – and they will need them more than ever.
There is no doubt that China has increasingly been interfering in Hong Kong’s domestic affairs.
China balks at interfering in the “internal affairs” of a neighbor from whom it gets precious natural gas and potential access to the sea.
The irony is that while King Abdullah has energetically taken on a leading role in the region’s turbulent affairs, he seems unable to respond to Saudi Arabia’s acute lag in democratic reform in comparison to neighbors like Jordan and the Gulf states.
Jan Maria Rokita, one of the most intelligent leaders of the right and a former home affairs minister, recently said that the Polish people already have all the human rights that liberalism can bestow.
And the world’s only military superpower is often seen within China as trigger-happy when intervening in other countries’ internal affairs.
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