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These actions exacerbate tensions over the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on imports from other countries, including some of America’s closest
allies
(such as Canada), and its threats to withdraw from the World Trade Organization, which undergirds the rules-based system regulating cross-border flows of goods, services, and capital.
While Syria’s Lebanese
allies
have called for improved ties between the two countries, the Hariri murder makes this doubtful.
But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed: the US had grown so powerful relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America’s closest
allies.
Each time the United States and its
allies
nodded in agreement.
But is fighting America's war a jihad, and are soldiers slain by Al-Qaida or other former
allies
also martyrs?
At any rate, the tariffs were also imposed on US
allies
such as Canada, which gives the lie to the national-security argument once and for all.
On the home front, attempts by Likud and its right-wing
allies
to tamper with the legal system, the press, and other institutions identified with the “old elite” are likely to gain momentum.
The authorities have natural
allies
in the large, moderate Muslim organisations, especially the Nahdhatul Ulama and the Muhammadiyah, that lead Indonesian civil society.
How Trump is Testing DemocracyTOKYO – World leaders seem to be at a loss about how to approach relations with US President Donald Trump, given his worrying positions and often-bizarre behavior toward politicians and the media,
allies
and enemies alike.
By running on a platform of “America first,” Trump has raised questions among America’s
allies
about the wisdom of continued reliance on the US.
Allies
need to consider what more they might do on behalf of common defense.
Cynically dismissive of both his European
allies
and his security advisers, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who supported military intervention in Syria, Obama minces no words in his fatalistic depiction of the troubled region.
Add to that the alienation of close allies, many of which doubt the ability and willingness of an Asia-fixated US to stand by them, and Obama’s suggestion that the US should not be focused on the Middle East is shocking.
The US needs
allies
now more than ever, for the world is reverting to its pre-war multi-polar state.
In particular, regulators have no chance to look over the horizon and act preventively when markets are opaque, and when powerful Wall Street interests (and their Capitol Hill allies) can circle the wagons and claim that there is no problem.
To the US, China is a big-data dictatorship that has detained one million Uighurs in concentration camps, cracked down on Christians, curtailed civil rights, and destroyed the environment – all while building up its military and threatening America’s regional
allies.
Five years ago, Taylor and his intellectual
allies
wrote an “Open Letter to Ben Bernanke,” warning that the quantitative easing planned by the Federal Reserve’s then-chairman risked “currency debasement and inflation.”
Since 1992, Russia has tried to build its other main foreign-policy tool, the CSTO, as an alternative to NATO, but for years it had only six members – Russia and its closest allies, Belarus and Kazakhstan, plus three poor and insecure states (Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan).
It does not help that many of those press-freedom violators – including Saudi Arabia – are among America’s closest
allies.
Even countries that are not particularly close US
allies
– such as Myanmar, where two Reuters journalists have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment – do not face pushback from the US.
Finally, yet another partisan struggle over America’s debt ceiling could increase the risk of a government shutdown if the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and President Barack Obama and his Democratic
allies
cannot agree on a budget.
First, will the looming military strikes by the US and its
allies
against Syria be limited in scope and time, or will they trigger a wider military confrontation?
It is often forgotten that many Tibetans, especially educated people in the larger towns, were so keen to modernize their society in the mid-twentieth century that they saw the Chinese Communists as
allies
against rule by holy monks and serf-owning landlords.
In this scenario, Pakistani generals, instead of continuing to sponsor Afghan Pashtun militant groups (like the Taliban and their
allies
like the Haqqani network), would be compelled to fend off a potentially grave threat to Pakistan’s unity.
The fact is that, despite their importance, sanctions alone cannot bring about the outcome desired by the US or its
allies.
But, though the Alliance certainly lost, the main opposition Swedish Social Democratic Party and its
allies
on the left did not win.
In that case, the key question will be whether the Social Democrats can ditch their
allies
further to the left.
The proposal’s centerpiece, however, was the quadrupling of US spending in Europe to “support our NATO
allies
in the face of Russia’s aggression.”
It needs
allies
in the effort, and the EU, still the world’s largest economy despite years of stagnation, would make a perfect candidate – if only it would pull itself together.
Without the US guarantee to protect its democratic allies, institutions built after World War II to provide that protection would not survive for very long.
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