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Although the resolution’s general message is encouraging, a shopping list of reform objectives is not a strategic analysis of the contradictions that are undermining China’s development, let alone an action plan for responding to these contradictions.
This underscores yet another of QE’s inherent contradictions: its transmission effects are narrow, while the problems it is supposed to address are broad.
Its anti-India identity is no longer sufficient to stem its mounting contradictions, which are most apparent in the two incarnations of the Taliban: the Afghan Taliban, which is the Pakistani military’s surrogate, and the Pakistani Taliban – formally known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – which is the military’s nemesis.
Whatever the limits or contradictions of shared values, it would be naive to dismiss their importance.
This is the point that French voters arguably reached in April when they elected Macron, and a similar turning point is rapidly approaching in Britain, as the risks and contradictions of Brexit become ever clearer.
Sharp contradictions between different strands of Chinese policy are becoming ever more obvious.
The root of these contradictions is the absence of hard budget constraints – of either a market or a planned-economy form – on SOEs and local governments.
If they were, the West would need only to wait for its adversaries to collapse under the weight of their own contradictions: Russia’s overestimation of its means, and, in the case of the Islamic State, the consequences of its appallingly cruel behavior.
Putin’s moral claims are, however, mired in politically unsustainable contradictions.
How one can reconcile such contradictions is beyond me.
It must also expose the contradictions of the leading proposals.
But when the economy fails – and the failure is not just a transient phase but a symptom of deep contradictions – capitalism’s disruptive social side effects can turn politically toxic.
First, let us try to disentangle some of the cat’s cradle of ironies and contradictions that are bedeviling efforts to end the violence in Syria.
So long as left-wing parties seemed suspect, implausible or even semi-revolutionary, center-right parties could conceal their internal contradictions.
But, as a country caught between the Islamic Middle Ages and Western modernity, it has always abided extreme contradictions.
In the Babarnama , for example, we see the internal contradictions in the personality of the founder of the Mughal Empire.
Another view, though, is that India is a country that has found in democracy the most effective way to manage its immense contradictions.
In a recent speech on foreign policy, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee laid out a supposed plan for defeating ISIS that, in classic Trump fashion, overflowed with contradictions and inconsistencies, even as it failed to provide specifics and facts.
Critics repeatedly pointed out that the fundamental contradictions had not been resolved, and that if the euro was to survive in the long run, there would have to be a fiscal and banking union, which would require morepolitical unification than most Europeans are willing to accept.
Add to that numerous other divides and contradictions, and the EU’s collapse seems to many more likely than ever.
Contradictions abound in Russia's Central Asian policy, too.
Contradictions abound.
Putin believes that the EU suffers from the same flaws as the former Soviet Union, regarding it as a utopian, multinational project that will crumble under the weight of its contradictions.
The Palestinians must align their national conversation with what is realizable, while Israel must resolve its own contradictions and address the refugee problem in a way that secures the legitimacy and durability of a future peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Many times, alleged contradictions are simply ignoble pretexts by autocrats who seek to legitimate evil by pointing out the "otherness" of their cultures.
By making Islamists and Islamist sentiments a part of the process of modernization, Malaysia demonstrates that Islamic faith and economic growth can be reconciled if politicians are clever enough not to treat them as contradictions.
At that point many suppressed tensions and contradictions will break forth.
For Iraq, the complexities and contradictions of the war were even more pronounced.
It is true that, historically, internal contradictions and imbalances have often led to interstate conflict.
Many people, including me, who had argued against the FA program in 1999 – mostly for its inconsistencies, contradictions, and fiscally irresponsible assumptions – were by 2004 willing to vote for it.
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