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However, in a world of strategic competition, international commerce can be, and usually is, an instrument of policy, and its use in that context should not be denied simply because it breaches the sacred principle of free trade.
Despite complaints from the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church, chambers of commerce and political parties, the CSE has refused to allow a recount of the ballots or scrutiny by impartial observers.
After all, from the European Union to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to the North American Free Trade Agreement, we see how geographic regions can create conditions for shared growth and prosperity by removing barriers to commerce, harmonizing regulatory norms, opening labor markets, and developing common infrastructure.
International chambers of commerce play a very active and vital role in government consultations.
The information carried on the new networks spans public health, medical care, education, banking, commerce, and entertainment, in addition to communications among family and friends.
Senior officials from the ministries of commerce, defense, and foreign affairs will meet in the next two months followed by a meeting of the foreign ministers.
With Myanmar/Burma now the “in” destination for the world’s hot-money investors, the imperial decrepitude that Lewis described will doubtless soon be transformed, the archaic charm of a fading past demolished for the sake of modern commerce.
In Indonesia (and to a lesser extent Malaysia), science and technology, commerce and modern management as well as the all-important challenges of democracy, human rights, and gender equality are being tackled head-on in authentic terms of Muslim discourse.
This is still true to some extent, but something crucial has changed: football, like other types of commerce, has gone global.
Economic integration, it was hoped, would lead to greater understanding, underpinned by the myriad interactions that inevitably flow from commerce.
I hope that China’s sophisticated economic managers understand that either their country’s behavior will have to change, or we are likely to face a massive trade conflict and disruption of global commerce.
But it was also a prescient recognition of English’s rapid emergence as the lingua franca of global commerce and science, and that once entrenched it was likely to remain so for decades, if not centuries, to come.
Instead leaders should foster more commerce to include more people.
Through their huge purchases of goods, with promises of even more to come, today’s authoritarian/mercantilist regimes in Russia and China may be about to achieve by commerce what the Soviets could not achieve by bribery and threats.
And the scale of that commerce is breathtaking, with German exports to China growing from $25.9 billion a decade ago to $87.6 billion in 2011, while South Korea’s exports have increased from $53 billion to $133 billion during the same period of time.
Once can understand the common interests of China and Britain: China is obsessed with an absolute territorial imperative: to restore what it considers to be the one and indivisible Chinese Motherland;Britain is obsessed with trade and commerce with China -- just as it was during the Opium Wars.
Historically, there is no question that technological innovation and global commerce have underpinned rapid material progress and dramatic gains in living standards.
When civilian air traffic is no longer safe from attack, one may legitimately wonder about the effectiveness of the basic systems of governance that underpin global commerce.
Undoubted advances in information technology led to an incredible restructuring of the American business sector, which re-wired itself to take advantage of electronic commerce and improved computer-based management, logistics, and communications systems.
European culture and American commerce, European profundity and American materialism--these are ancient and tired themes.
Moreover, free-trade agreements are typically seen as politically valuable: countries tied by commerce are supposedly less likely to shoot at each other.
For example, taxes on commerce among India’s states require checkpoints at their borders, with long queues of trucks awaiting clearance.
Malaria further obstructs travel, industrial activities, commerce and tourism.
The other 30 seats, however, are chosen through functional constituencies, which represent specific interests, such as banks, insurance companies, stockbrokers, chambers of commerce, and transport operators.
Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.
Since the dawn of the Age of Exploration, large numbers of people have crossed the seas for myriad reasons, and marine-based commerce has connected the world’s regions.
In an autarkic economic system with international commerce reduced to the minimum, the political size of the country corresponds to the size of its market.
With free international commerce, small regions have smaller costs in becoming independent.
But the US and European chambers of commerce in China say that the actual practices are different.
It is time to reap the dividends of a sustainable peace: expanding cross-border trade and commerce, shared infrastructure, and greater economic integration.
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