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He is, observers warn, creating an information-age dictatorship, in which the technologies that were once expected to bring freedom to China’s 1.4 billion citizens have instead enabled him to entrench his own authority.
At about the same time, the Chinese scholar Yen Fu – whose translations of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Montesquieu were read even by the young Mao – also concluded that filial piety fostered habits of disciplined subordination to authority that could be applied to the factory and the polity.
Without US backing, it is unlikely that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization, could have gained sufficient authority to deepen and safeguard the post-war trading system.
The World According to XiBEIJING – On November 15 Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the CCP’s Central Military Commission, giving him supreme authority over China’s armed forces.
Like previous Chinese leaders, Xi firmly believes that the world should respect China’s authority to manage its own affairs.
Or you can stay the same size, conceptually, as everyone else on your page – you don’t have to assert your dominance or authority.
An important first step in confronting the speculative attacks that eurozone economies suffer today is a commitment to greater risk-sharing and greater authority for the European Central Bank.
China’s moves to strengthen its African ties have three objectives: to consolidate secure energy and mineral supplies, to curtail Taiwan’s influence on the continent (which harbours six of the 26 countries with which it maintains full diplomatic relations), and to augment China’s burgeoning global authority.
As for EMU, the date is set: on January 1, 1999 EU members that meet the conditions for EMU membership will transfer monetary authority to the new European Central Bank and within 3 years replace their national currencies with a new European currency the "Euro".
By abandoning a policy that has become a bedrock of post Cold War strategy, the West would lose both credibility and authority, in Europe and beyond.
To be sure, in many parts of the world, state capitalism has helped to consolidate states and centralize authority – preconditions for the development of modern societies and economies.
There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
General Dallaire, the UN commander in Rwanda who appealed for authority to confront the genocidaires , would also now likely be known as a trigger-happy alarmist.
When a country engages in the world, its authority stems from its willingness and ability to take “personal” risks.
Its authority is diminished when the perceived gap between the value of its population’s lives and the lives of its enemies is too wide.
To be sure, trade unions have lost members and political clout owing partly to a decline in their moral authority and hence legitimacy as institutions capable of defending the interests of ordinary working people.
Congress, at its core, pursues a form of dynastic democracy with the characteristics of a “Sultanistic regime” – a regime with no purpose or function apart from maintaining the “leader’s personal authority.”
But, though such leaders perhaps have more personal authority than even medieval monarchs, their authority is brittle.
One such trend is the emergence of independent figures of public moral authority: successful businessmen, respected academics and journalists, famous writers, and influential bloggers.
The CCP’s monopoly of public moral authority is long gone, and now its monopoly of political power is at risk as well.
Some politicians and businessmen in the West began to fear that the key to Asian success was the discipline and respect for authority of non-democratic, Confucian cultures.
In fact, there is every reason to suspect that the regulatory authority has been captured.
Internationally, she is appreciated as an effective stateswoman and the guarantor of stability and moral authority in the West.
The European Commission has argued that a fully-fledged banking union would need to rest on four pillars: a single deposit protection scheme covering all EU (or eurozone) banks; a common resolution authority and common resolution fund, at least for systemically important and cross-border banks; a single European supervisor for the same banks; and a uniform rule book for prudential supervision of all banks in Europe.
During the political horse-trading that preceded the creation of the EBA (together with two equivalent bodies for securities and insurance), it was agreed that the new authority would be based in London.
China’s government, having issued a decree in 2007 that bans senior lamas from reincarnating without official permission, is essentially waiting for the current Dalai Lama to die, so that it can exercise its self-proclaimed exclusive authority to select his successor.
Then again, for three consecutive years, Iraq’s national security advisor – a physician with no credentials for the job when appointed by the US occupation authority, except that he spoke tolerable English – insisted that the next year would be the last in which American troops were needed.
He has wide-ranging powers, including the authority to make senior government appointments.
According to Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner spearheading the reform effort, the proposed measures – including regulatory authority to divide banks’ riskier trading activities from their deposit-taking business, and a ban on proprietary trading by the largest banks – would enhance financial stability and protect taxpayers.
Fourth, observers must not be subject to any pressure or threat of retaliation by any government authority.
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