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China’s recent heavy-handed economic sanctioning of South Korea, in response to that country’s decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system, was just the latest example of the Chinese authorities’ use of trade as a political weapon.
With China accounting for 90% of Mongolian exports, the Chinese authorities set out to teach Mongolia a lesson.
For example, when initial reports surfaced about the first swine flu cases, it took three weeks for the information to reach federal health authorities, because state governments were reluctant to report cases quickly due to political and electoral considerations.
Seventy-five percent of crimes are not reported due to lack of trust in the authorities, and 98% of crimes are never resolved or punished.
More important, with the clock ticking on default (which could come as early as July), the Greek authorities need to persuade their partners through action, not promises.
What it also needs is time and money, which the EU should provide if, and when, the Greek authorities face up to reality.
And, as the rich kowtow to the authorities to protect their wealth, a strong check on official arbitrariness disappears.
Gilani had been convicted weeks earlier of contempt of court, after he refused to comply with a court order directing him to write to Swiss authorities and demand that they reopen a money-laundering investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari that had been launched in the mid-1990’s.
The Supreme Court issues short orders when it requires the authorities to take immediate action.
Many media companies are dependent on government advertising revenue, and, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, this spending is being used as leverage by the authorities to censor unfavorable coverage.
So the authorities acted.
So far, the US authorities have focused on bringing Snowden home to face espionage charges.
Guided mainly by a cash-flow analysis, European authorities argue that low interest rates and long maturities have made the nation’s debt sustainable.
This would create the space the authorities need to implement macroeconomic policies conducive to recovery.
The authorities will not allow the biggest banks to default on their debts, through bankruptcy or in any other fashion, owing to the need to prevent the financial system from collapsing.
But some organizations campaigning against trafficking understand that when sex work is illegal, it is much riskier for sex workers to complain to the authorities when they are enslaved, beaten, or cheated.
French authorities, it seems, wanted to avoid reawakening the painful trauma of the event.
The EU vs. DemocracyROME – One of the ways in which the European Union effectively asserts the fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law is through its External Cooperation Programs, whereby, on the invitation of local authorities, it provides support in the form of electoral assistance projects and election observation missions.
The core idea is that Israelis and Palestinians would be citizens of two separate states and thus would identify with two separate political authorities.
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 requires measures that do not come easily to citizens, groups, and authorities steeped in a tradition of liberalism and tolerance.
So the authorities responded quickly to the Bush administration's request for Turkish troops to join the coalition, although the idea was stillborn - rejected by both the Kurds and the American-appointed Governing Council in Iraq.
Politically unable to accept or sufficiently address the aspirations of the Tibetan protestors, China’s authorities have focused almost exclusively on the narrow law-and-order issues connected with the violence in March.
Although Chinese authorities have disputed US claims that Chinese-made heparin led to at least 81 American deaths, the scientific evidence has damaged China’s credibility and has strengthened perceptions around the world that Chinese products are unregulated and unsafe.
But the way the authorities are handling the epidemic is having the opposite effect.
The proceeds can be divided equally between workers, local authorities, a general tax cut and the central government.
Although the country was never as protected from the global downturn as its authorities claimed, the country benefits from some factors that do help ease the damage inflicted by the international crisis, especially with regard to the availability of foreign currency in these times of restrictions on external financing.
Unfortunately, the authorities do not have much margin for error in working to counteract the damage done by the international crisis.
Meanwhile, the country’s monetary authorities have much more leeway to boost the economy by lowering interest rates at a time when the threat of inflation is diminishing.
The Lemmings of QENEW HAVEN – Predictably, the European Central Bank has joined the world’s other major monetary authorities in the greatest experiment in the history of central banking.
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