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Despite new joint projects in energy efficiency and environmental protection, areas in which China ranks Japan as the best performer among industrialized countries, the two sides remain in bitterly divided over these territorial waters, which contain huge potential oil, gas, and other mineral deposits.
Back in 2009, Europe faced a widely shared imperative to rescue distressed banks, fight recession, and contain a sharp rise in unemployment.
For others, a much more immediate priority is to contain Iran, which, in digesting its recent successes, is developing a larger appetite.
The Trump administration is eager to contain the influence of the Russia-Iran-Hezbollah axis in the Middle East.
Though the books contain no direct reference to contemporary political issues, China’s government views them as critical of CCP rule and thus damaging to social stability.
For two years, health professionals have been trying to contain an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid.
Investors may be right that these risks will not materialize in their more severe form, or that loose monetary policies in advanced economies and continued recovery will contain such risks.
In the aftermath of World War II, by contrast, the US managed successfully to contain Soviet ambitions.
Nor must the US give up hope on the Israel-Palestine front, or on its efforts to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Such an alliance would not seek to contain China, but to ensure that it does not abuse its power and stoke regional tensions and instability.
And, although circumstances changed in 1968, when a survey by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific revealed the seas around the islands to contain an abundance of resources, the periodic tensions that arose were manageable.
They must also ask whether they did enough to prevent the current situation, such as by intervening to contain the conflict in Syria.
Although dense, continuous data and modern computation allow us to map many details about society, and to explain how communities might work, such raw mathematical models contain too many variables and complex relationships for most people to understand.
Claims that our leadership, institutions, analyses, or policy instruments are inadequate to the task at hand surely contain a kernel of truth.
For a better understanding of the FBI’s demand, we need to look at Apple’s latest line of phones, which differ from Farook’s in a fundamental respect: They contain a new chip that was designed using a technique developed by the US National Security Agency and then shared with the Israelis.
And it is why an entirely preventable disease like malaria kills 600,000 people each year; many are too poor to buy drugs and bed nets, while governments are often too poor to eradicate the mosquitos that carry the disease or contain and treat outbreaks when they occurs.
In the same way, achieving an agreement – or not – with Russia (and thus with China) to contain the Syrian crisis will also determine how much room for maneuver the United States and the European Union will have with these two countries to address Iran’s nuclear program.
Even if some sort of communiqué is cobbled together in December – and countries with elections coming up, such as the United Kingdom, will push for one – it is hard to believe that it will contain sufficient detail or reflect the proper level of commitment to have the impact so desperately needed.
In Burundi, which is constantly on the verge of volcanic ethnic conflict, R2P-driven international diplomatic engagement has – at least so far – helped contain further eruptions.
So far, however, attempts to contain and reverse the PiS’s increasingly authoritarian polices have failed.
Pulp and paper companies are driving rampant and illegal destruction of forests that contain the richest diversity of plants in the world.
Most processed and prepared foods already contain high levels of salt, and often we add it to the foods that we make ourselves.
There is also the question of how to protect financial stability from risks arising from shadow banking, including the risk of contagion to traditional banking, which ring-fencing helps to contain.
Back then, there was a debate between those who wanted to contain China’s growing strength increased and those who urged China’s integration into the international system.
Technically the electoral system is not faulty at all; it has all the characteristics of a democratic election system, with some peculiarities though, such as elections that contain both first-past-the post electoral districts and those based on party lists.
The US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the landmark legislation now widely known as “Obamacare”) aims to widen coverage, while so-called accountable care organizations, such as Kaiser Permanente, try to contain costs by aligning the interests of providers and payers.
Moreover, there seems little doubt that the final, rejected version of the UN’s 2003-04 reunification plan will have to be changed, although earlier versions might contain ideas worth re-visiting.
But they can contain something darker, more aggressive, too, especially when sporting combat is loaded with historical memory.
This might just be possible, because the emerging outlines of a new framework to resolve the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis contain a key component that was missing so far.
But nobody is trying to contain China, much less encircle it.
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