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Asia’s new clout holds tremendous promise.
But China now has enough commercial clout, backed by more than $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, to play a decisive role in advancing or impeding global problem-solving, from the G-20 agenda to efforts to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
If the EIB were to put its clout behind renewable energy and energy efficiency, it could help to reconcile energy security and the fight against climate change.
Our success in Myrna's case depends on guaranteeing that legal reforms move forward, strengthened by political clout and a genuine emphasis on justice and democracy.
The ultimate outcome will depend on the strategic wisdom, political clout, and courage of Europe’s decision-makers regarding investment in Europe’s RD&I.
Even May herself, in her recent attack on cosmopolitanism, inadvertently celebrated Britain for precisely the achievements that its cosmopolitanism has enabled, from its outsize share of Nobel Prizes to the City of London’s financial clout.
It has clout and respect in its own region with formidable fighting forces.
The US should use its political clout with Albania and Kosovo to press for a thorough investigation, and for criminal proceedings against anyone who is implicated.
In a world of weak multilateral institutions – including a G20 beset by substantial differences of opinion on basic questions – it is more important than ever that euro-zone governments bolster their collective clout in an uncertain, unprecedented, and competitive global environment.
Claims about AIPAC’s clout have long shaped analysis of US foreign policy.
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.
China’s Borderline BelligerenceNEW DELHI – In recent years, the People’s Liberation Army has been taking advantage of its rising political clout to provoke localized skirmishes and standoffs with India by breaching the two countries’ long and disputed Himalayan frontier.
With thriving economies came increased strategic clout, leading to the rise of regional geopolitics shaped by national interests and fears, rather than by external forces.
Already, China has used its clout to push Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand to block a united ASEAN stand against China’s aggressive pursuit of its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The Saudis suspect that rising oil prices will revive Iraq’s economy, and that of Iran, thus boosting their regional clout.
Taking advantage of its considerable assets – the world’s third-largest economy, substantial high-tech skills, and a military that has recently been freed of some legal and constitutional constraints – Japan is boosting its geopolitical clout.
This is a baffling policy choice at a time when Germany should be using its room for fiscal maneuver and its economic clout to create and enhance the demand that peripheral Europe needs in order to grow out of its misery.
In a negotiation between government officials and a banker with a bonus at risk, who will have more clout in determining the price?
Japan recognized the link between political clout and science in the 1980’s.
Given the size and clout of countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea, such a condominium is, no doubt, doomed to failure.
These mechanisms have so far promised more than they have delivered, though not for want of continuing efforts to give them more clout.
Politics mattered as much as policy: when their pricing leverage was combined with political clout, the power of big business seemed even more threatening.
Just as with the early industrialists, moreover, teacher unions in many countries have enough political clout to resist reforms that erode their monopoly power.
By wielding its financial clout in this manner, China seeks to kill two birds with one stone.
Second, the state-run hydropower industry’s growing clout within China has led the government to campaign aggressively for overseas dam projects by offering low-interest loans to other governments.
Clearly, China’s rising clout is no longer confined to Asia.
But its global influence stems in no small part from the strategic clout that EU membership provides.
There has been no sign of this yet, but these are areas that almost all EU national governments jealously guard, even though they lack the EU’s collective clout.
But China’s increasingly prosperous, educated, and confident consumers have the clout – and the numbers – to transform the way the world spends, possibly even more than Western baby boomers did in their prime.
Some recent reports indicate that Hamas’s rising political clout in the Palestinian territories has prompted the Bush administration to consider easing its hard-line approach.
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