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There are definitely valid concerns about how China conducts trade, including what Pascal Lamy, a former WTO director-general,
calls
“opaque, trade-distorting subsidization of high-tech products.”
The success of the rescue is far from assured, in view of the magnitude of belt-tightening that it
calls
for and the hostility that it has aroused on the part of Greek workers.
And as the trade war with the US continues to escalate,
calls
for policy clarity are growing more urgent.
The ninth SDG highlights the critical importance of science and technology, as it
calls
on the world – and especially developing countries – to support industrial growth and technological upgrading, encourage innovation, and increase spending on research and development.
Despite
calls
by the Russian public for reform – from modernization of the military and decrepit and corrupt legal institutions to diversification of the economy beyond natural-resource extraction and the military-industrial complex – Putin has stuck to his autocratic guns.
The Clinton Administration has failed to pay U.S. back dues to the U.N., partly because of Republican opposition in the Senate, but partly because the Clinton administration simply hasn't been willing to champion worthy U.N. activities as a priority for the U.S. On the one side the U.S. presses for reforms at the U.N. agencies, but when they happen, as at the WHO, the reforms are met with U.S.
calls
for still more budget stringency.
Instead of looking for the “Minsky Moment” when today’s bull markets run out of steam (for they definitely will), we should perhaps give more thought to this trend, which Schwab
calls
the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Conspicuously, South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s “Trustpolitik” – a soft-power approach to North Korea that
calls
for deeper cooperation with China, the North’s most important ally – is particularly popular.
Calls
to re-evaluate the official response began when President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao came to power seven years ago.
Freedom House
calls
the country’s media “not free,” citing high levels of self-censorship that largely reflect fear of “post-publication punitive action.”
Nevertheless Presidents Clinton and Chirac, Prime Ministers Blair and Shroeder, cling to the notion that ground troops will only enter the fray in what Clinton euphemistically
calls
a "permissive environment."
Whatever one
calls
it, it is a problem.
Much of the report is of course devoted to traditional aspects of national security: military budgets, alliances, and dealing with countries like Russia and China, which the new NSS
calls
“strategic competitors” (rather than adversaries).
Each of these crises
calls
for urgent action.
Indeed, Transparency International, a watchdog group,
calls
Georgia one of the 10 most corrupt nations in the world.
Finally, a circular economy
calls
for adaptive logistics and a leadership culture that embraces the new system and rewards progress toward establishing it.
After all,
calls
for reforming the Church had been occurring regularly for centuries.
Calls
for more constructive engagement may sound facile, naive, or even morally precarious.
Then, in July, just before the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, news broke that Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo – who had been detained by the Chinese government for most of the last decade over his
calls
for democracy – had been diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer.
But the current situation
calls
for far more serious measures.
The Commission must regain political and intellectual leadership and make its choice: either explain why the SGP rules must be followed even now, in the face of deflation, or agree with those who argue that the current environment
calls
for a fiscal stimulus.
What is clear in all of these cases is that the stakes are so high that it simply cannot be left to the judgment of WikiLeaks and media outlets to make the necessary
calls
without consulting relevant officials.
Islam, Faith, and Climate ChangeAMMAN – The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change, endorsed in August by Islamic scholars from around the world,
calls
on countries to phase out greenhouse-gas emissions and switch to 100% renewable energy.
First, the Declaration
calls
on policymakers responsible for crafting the comprehensive climate agreement to be adopted in Paris to come to “an equitable and binding conclusion.”
This
calls
for insurance.
In order to make local-government borrowing more transparent and accountable, the Third Plenum
calls
for streamlining the distribution of revenue between the central and local governments, increasing transfer payments to cities, and allowing local authorities to issue municipal bonds independently.
“BSE,” after all,
calls
to mind bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow disease,” a slow-developing but fatal degenerative disease.
If this forces America back towards what the international-relations scholar Joseph Nye
calls
“soft power and multilateral diplomacy,” it may well be a good thing.
Such people are easy to manipulate, a concept that former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris
calls
“brain hacking.”
In the past,
calls
for active civic engagement and Havel’s moralistic views left average Czechs cold and alienated political opponents, who accused him of promoting a nonpolitical form of politics.
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