Claim
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Krugman thought the “bond vigilante”
claim
might be valid for a few countries, such as Greece, but argued that the “confidence fairy” was no less imaginary than the one that collects children’s teeth.
On May 7, that
claim
will be put to the test in the UK’s parliamentary election.
Indeed, some years back, a planned visit to Indian Ladakh by the PLA’s commander of the Lanzhou Military Region was canceled on the grounds that Pakistan had protested – implying that Pakistan had a legitimate
claim
to the area.
What is surprising, though, is the
claim
that China is reneging on some implicit promise to become more like the West.
Donors and the government
claim
that a solution is imminent: several billion dollars of supply are now coming on stream.
After all, the
claim
that the risk of loss will arise only for debt issued after the new crisis-resolution mechanism starts in 2014 implies that all debt issued until then is safe, and that insolvency can occur only in some distant future, rather than now, as in Greece and Ireland.
Indeed, it was just before President Hu Jintao’s 2006 visit that China resurrected its
claim
to India’s large northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.
That opened the way for China to
claim
Arunachal Pradesh (three times the size of Taiwan) as “South Tibet” and reinforced China’s view of territorial issues: Whatever area it occupies is Chinese territory, and whatever territorial claims it makes must be settled on the basis of “mutual accommodation and understanding.”
The fact that the spotlight is now on China’s Tibet-linked
claim
to Arunachal Pradesh, rather than on Tibet’s status, underscores China’s dominance in setting the bilateral agenda.
Such declarations have motivated China to claim, since 2006, India’s entire Arunachal Pradesh state as “South Tibet” and to press India, in the negotiations over the long-disputed Himalayan border, to relinquish at least the part of the Tawang district located in that state.
Put crudely, it is more beneficial politically for an opposition politician to
claim
that his country’s problems are self-induced, caused by domestic profligacy, and have little to do with global financial failures.
Here it is no longer good enough for us pro-Europeans to
claim
that only atavistic Little Englanders make the case for leaving, or to pretend that, outside the EU, Britain would collapse or disintegrate.
Social budgets tend to
claim
15 - 30% of GDP, in comparison with outlays in East Asia of between 5-10% of GDP for social programs.
Poland, which supposedly went "cold turkey"-- embracing market reforms that are alternately admired and reviled, but always seen as harsh -- saw social spending
claim
11% more of GDP between 1989 and 1993.
To be fair, McCain never suggested that US troops will wage 100 years of war, as some of his critics
claim.
Nonetheless, many
claim
that Barnier’s proposal goes too far.
But we should be far more skeptical about policies that
claim
to have nothing but upside implications for people and the planet.
Furthermore, a “most favored nation” provision ensures that corporations can
claim
the best treatment offered in any of a host country’s treaties.
The
claim
sounded credible until the subsequent survey showed that the area’s crude mortality rate had actually risen to six times the normal base rate.
The justification would be simple: no one can seriously
claim
that the bonds of all eurozone governments are without risk.
During Tusk’s premiership, the government was perversely reluctant to
claim
credit for Poland’s economic success.
It would be a mistake, however, to view the vote in Greece as a straightforward victory for democracy – despite what the country’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his supporters like to
claim.
The project’s realization has already led to alleged human rights abuses against poor farmers in the region, who
claim
that they have been denied access to their land.
While nuclear energy’s advocates often
claim
that there have been only two major calamities, a very different picture emerges if we consider other “accidents” that caused loss of human life or significant property damage.
Schmitt believed that this way of thinking makes liberal states vulnerable to capture by private interest groups from within and by foreigners from without – a
claim
that Trump made the centerpiece of his election campaign.
If Latin American governments implement it successfully, they truly will deserve to
claim
credit for the economic gains that result.
If it declares bankruptcy and refuses to buy back its assets, bankruptcy laws should give the central bank the first
claim
on the bank's assets.
Moreover, Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, used to
claim
that, in their 5,000-year history, India and China fought only one war, in 1962.
Writers like John Judis
claim
that nineteenth-century Americans invented political populism, with its anti-elitist stance and inflammatory rhetoric.
Voices on the right often
claim
that this inequality is not only justifiable, but also appropriate: wealth is a just reward for hard work, while poverty is an earned punishment for laziness.
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