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Moreover, Trump carries no historical baggage, and his decisiveness, even if rooted in impulsiveness, could provide the necessary breakthrough to overcome decades of accumulated inertia.
The most important diplomatic breakthrough of the Cold War, the opening to China, began with secret negotiations between Henry Kissinger, then President Richard Nixon’s national security adviser, and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.
The Labor-led government of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres made a dramatic breakthrough towards that very goal in 1993, with the Oslo agreements for mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO.
For US President Barack Obama, the breakthrough is a chance to cement his legacy as a transformative president, like his models Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt – even if, in ending nearly six decades of failed policy, he more closely resembles Richard Nixon, who presided over the opening to China.
With this political mandate, India stands the chance of a dramatic breakthrough to rapid growth.
Despite long-standing political obstacles to some of these reforms, this may be the best and most likely moment for a political breakthrough.
If India cannot make a breakthrough now, when could it?
A year ago, there was an encouraging breakthrough on the investment treaty; this year, there was a setback, as the launch of explicit negotiations over which industries would be exempt – the always contentious “negative list” – was deferred until 2015.
It was an evidentiary breakthrough for NCD activism.
The WHO responded to that breakthrough – and the criticism it triggered – with major reforms.
That same year he sat next to East Germany’s leader Erich Honecker in Helsinki while signing the “Final Act” of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe – a major breakthrough for détente policy and in opening the closed societies of the USSR and Warsaw Pact.
The real technological breakthrough was the shale-energy revolution.
The agreement on Syria’s chemical weapons struck by Russia and the US could one day be remembered as a spectacular breakthrough in the field of arms control.
The new GeneXpert test diagnoses not only TB, but also, in the same step, MDR-TB, which means that it can rapidly direct adequate treatment and prevent infection of contacts – a true breakthrough.
It is a sad lesson of the Middle East that every major peace breakthrough has come only as a consequence of war.
Although engagement with Iran and North Korea may have failed, Obama did help to engineer a historic breakthrough with Burma.
India's reforms have been more gradual, the effects less dramatic at first, but after nearly a decade, India too is making a historical breakthrough.
But breakthrough technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Twitter also depend on people who had access to well-funded education systems.
Indeed, they not only expressed their interest in becoming “pioneer countries”; all of the leaders I met declared that such a breakthrough was both critical and long overdue.
This complacency has become so entrenched that an agreement at the 2014 NATO summit in Newport, Wales, that no member would cut defense spending any further – and another agreement this year to meet the 2% target – was seen as a major breakthrough.
Neutralizing UkraineLONDON – Though no one imagines that a lasting cease-fire in Gaza will, in itself, produce a substantive breakthrough in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the United States and other concerned governments continue to work tirelessly to halt the fighting.
He also helped to secure a global deal to fight climate change, particularly by first achieving a breakthrough with China.
The breakthrough, he noted, comes when institutions go beyond trade within local communities to permit anonymous and impersonal exchange across time and space.
The alternative is to continue relying on what Deng Xiaoping, the father of China’s institutional breakthrough more than three decades ago, called “feeling the stones.”
In fact, both the Palestinians and the Israeli left seem to have suddenly become infatuated with Trump, though that may signal their despair more than a real chance of a breakthrough.
Fourth, the war in Afghanistan has not only proceeded rapidly on the ground, but has led to a diplomatic breakthrough as well.
Absent a breakthrough, the inevitable new round of sanctions and counter-sanctions would likely push Russia and Europe into recession, dampening global economic activity.
So even if companies do invest in breakthrough drugs, cheaper options will soon be available, reducing profit margins considerably.
In terms of addressing the eurozone financial crisis, however, the agreement reached in Brussels was anything but a breakthrough, because it never transcended the logic of narrow crisis management.
They must seek sequential, cumulative change rather than a single, all-inclusive breakthrough.
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