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Senge Hasan Sering, from Skardu, the director of the Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress, believes that the number of Chinese People’s Liberation Army troops now present “could be over 11,000,” as there are also additional “PLA construction corps personnel” deployed.
What worries me is that just having a diabetes program, a visiting nurse corps, or a bicycle-share program is not enough.
Retired military officers and commanders told the court that affirmative action was essential to maintaining an integrated officer corps.
The overseas press corps in Beijing was used to explaining political dissidents, student protesters, disgruntled workers and disenfranchised members of the “floating population.”
The European External Action Service (which serves as the EU’s foreign ministry and diplomatic corps) is a work in progress, and the divisions between member states have affected High Representative Catherine Ashton’s ability to speak for Europe on Libya.
I recently talked with an establishment stalwart who told me how much more difficult these leaks will make it for the US diplomatic corps to accomplish its putatively worthy goals.
But no calamity better captures the dangers of a press corps too beholden to power than the invasion of Iraq, a cataclysmic blunder whose ghastly knock-on effects afflict the Middle East, as well as Europe, to this day.
The Turkish establishment (the military as well as the diplomatic corps) worries about the possibility that a war will fracture Iraq, leading to an independent Kurdish state on Turkey's southern border that would inevitably serve to strengthen Kurdish nationalism within Turkey, raising new threats to Turkey's unity and stability.
Dealers and mechanics will install the batteries, comprising a new corps of workers devoted (indirectly) to cleaning up the environment and adding value to the installed base of cars.
Stalin annihilated the Red Army’s officer corps on the eve of Nazi Germany’s invasion.
Likewise, the relative loss of influence of the Chinese diplomatic corps contrasts with the emerging symbiosis between Xi and the People’s Liberation Army.
One likely explanation is that Macierewicz’s decimation of the officer corps has left Poland with an officer shortage.
But then, decades later, I woke up and discovered that space travel was still reserved for a small corps of astronauts and cosmonauts, and a tiny group of wealthy space tourists – six so far.
One reason is that both defense and foreign policies rely on well-functioning bureaucracies (a diplomatic corps, the military).
But much of the problem stems from an under-briefed, undereducated, and uncurious press corps.
But, while defections have occurred among the officer corps as well, the regime has maintained its basic cohesiveness.
In front of an ecstatic press corps, they hailed the decision to create a eurozone budget in name, when in reality it is nothing more than a credit line from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM, the bailout fund that gave Greece its loans in 2015).
While much of Washington and its press corps were discussing the latest revelations, the Department of Justice, which is supposed to be somewhat independent of the White House, was being turned into a partisan instrument for pursuing the president’s grudges.
In August 1991, an attempted coup against Gorbachev failed because he had the support of young people, both on the streets of Moscow and other cities and in the tanks and junior officer corps of the Soviet Union.
Instead, it was the small and highly professional Egyptian army that crushed the uprising, to the dismay of the young officer corps, who were already well advanced in their plans to seize power.
To Russia's officer corps, all opponents are ipso facto the army's enemies and, by extension, enemies of Russia.
Unlike their turn-of-the-19th-century French counterparts, however, Russia's officer corps is essentially apolitical, despite decades of dictatorship.
Nevertheless, although President Putin is working to make it a more professional body than the Soviet-era mass army, the officer corps retains a Bolshevik mind-set barricaded against the intrusions of civilian criticism.
Behind the scenes, she and the highly professional Germany diplomatic corps worked overtime to secure consensus – minus America – at the G20.
According to Young, those who have at least some talent will form a “pioneer corps” of plumbers and builders and other skilled workers.
Those who do not even make that grade will remain in a “home help corps” of unskilled laborers.
Sooner or later, Young argued, meritocratic elites cease to be open; they see to it that their children have a better chance than the offspring of the “pioneer corps” or “home help corps.”
Imagine how the French would have reacted if a quarter of France's post-World War II officer corps had sided with the Wehrmacht during its occupation of their country.
Foreign Minister Kozyrev is also blamed for a collapse in morale within the diplomatic corps.
As one of us recently argued in the journal Democracy, the twentieth-century conception of the Foreign Service as a corps of career officials “deprives the United States of the talent, connections, and agility we need to advance national interests and address global challenges effectively in the twenty-first century.”
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