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It was a major acquisition for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – which President Xi Jinping
calls
the “project of the century” – and proof of just how effective China’s debt-trap diplomacy can be.
While that case provides some assurance that military and political leaders will think twice about attacking nuclear reactors, the sheer scale of Ukraine’s nuclear enterprise
calls
for far greater global concern.
The new initiative
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for all member states to harmonize their economic, fiscal, and monetary policies completely, beginning with currency convertibility and followed by exchange-rate unification and, finally, a common currency.
In particular, Trump asked FBI director James Comey to go easy in his investigation of retired General Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser whom Trump reluctantly fired, ostensibly because he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of post-election telephone
calls
with the Russian ambassador.
Gone are the
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for the developed countries to live up to their commitment to give at least 0.7% of their GNI in development aid.
But now Pakistan’s government increasingly recognizes that it may have become the main victim of its Kashmir policy, which has left the country with a distorted polity and a military that has carried out four coups and
calls
the shots from behind the scenes.
After being accused of corruption, she simply ignored
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to appear before the Constitutional Court to testify.
Aside from
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to solidify the separation of powers by establishing a more robust system of legal checks and balances, there is near-consensus on the need to overhaul the current five-year, single-term presidency.
Cosmopolitan millennials and nationalist pensioners – what Thomas Friedman
calls
“Web People” and “Wall People” – seem to have nothing in common.
Mounting anxiety about the potential effects of increasingly intelligent tools on employment, wages, and income inequality has led to
calls
for policies to slow the pace of automation, such as a tax on robots.
The IMF conceded as much in its latest in-depth review of the Chinese economy, which
calls
the renminbi “moderately undervalued” by 5-10%.
Calls
for the president’s resignation have foundered, but the near-unanimous conclusion is that this government is Mexico’s most corrupt since the late 1980s.
A recent World Bank report
calls
on countries to leave behind the “great schooling wars” and adopt a “pragmatic approach” to education reform.
The current 12th Five-Year Plan
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for annual wage increases to average at least 13.4%; this year, wages are rising at an average rate of 18%, which will squeeze out industries characterized by obsolescence or overcapacity.
And, of course, The Left, which still counts large numbers of former Stasi personnel among its members, also
calls
for a reassessment of East Germany itself; many party veterans object to the term “dictatorship” for this phase of their lives.
In recent weeks, Bolton has suggested that talks with North Korea could follow what he
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the “Libya model” – a facile shorthand for a country that simply surrenders its nuclear program for little in return.
Obama’s long-run budget
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for much higher spending, higher taxes, and an explosion of debt that will crowd out borrowing in capital markets by private companies, state and local governments, and developing countries.
The Commission’s report instead
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for a new approach to drug abuse, one that treats it not as a criminal-justice issue, but rather as a public-health problem.
The Commission
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for a shared commitment from governments, civil-society groups, and regional organizations.
The stated goal of the new alliance was to establish what Kaczynski
calls
the “Fourth Republic” (implying a constitutional break with the supposedly compromised post-1989 Third Republic).
Repeated
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by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel’s eventual disappearance play into the hands of those in Israel who argue that Iran’s nuclear program must be ended militarily.
Third, the need for immigration reform, combined with “illiberal democracy” in Central Europe,
calls
for changes in EU spending priorities and foreign policy.
A Trans-Atlantic TransitionAUSTIN – Despite many
calls
for a “new Atlanticism” or a “new transatlantic bargain,” the US-European relationship remains imprisoned by old habits.
Managing this quiet revolution
calls
for nothing short of a new international system, with a radical revision of existing institutions and patterns of doing business.
It
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on the world to cut greenhouse-gas emissions (especially CO2) to net-zero levels in the second half of the century.
Losses in stock markets have a double effect: they reduce households’ wealth and lead them to spend less; and they cause massive losses to investors who borrowed to invest in stock, thus triggering margin
calls
and asset fire sales.
Even Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and leading UBI booster in Silicon Valley,
calls
for an expanded EITC.
I was working for a very large American bank at the time, and I can still remember joining frequent transatlantic conference
calls
to discuss Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio.
In addition to White House meetings, a formal State Dinner, a massive lunch in the State Department’s Ben Franklin Ballroom, and
calls
on congressional leaders, President Lee Myung-bak also addressed a joint session of Congress.
Rajan
calls
community the “third pillar” of prosperity, as important as the other two pillars – the state and market.
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