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Theories about China’s attitude toward North Korea often begin and end with the view that what the country fears, above all, is an inflow of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse – a spillover that could rend the delicate ethnic quilt of China’s northeast provinces.
Making the necessary modifications is a delicate task rendered more difficult by the fact that many mortgages have been sliced up and repackaged in the form of collateralized debt obligations.
Bernanke’s performance over the last two years has won high praise, and an extended political fight over control of US monetary policy was the last thing the world needed at what is still a very delicate moment for the global economy.
It is very hard to make legislators understand these delicate distinctions.
Institutional reform is a delicate affair that needs to be done with caution and sometimes against the conventional reform dogma.
To achieve their objectives, China’s leaders will need to strike a delicate balance between a muscular, disciplined, and ubiquitous Party, setting standards and protecting the public interest, and innovative, empowered, and potent markets, driving the economy into the future.
War against Iraq will invariably be divisive and weaken the kingdom’s already delicate unity.
To add legitimacy for its delicate mission within an Arab country, soldiers from Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and perhaps Pakistan, should be added.
They regularly needed to resolve the delicate issue of whether to invite to their embassy celebrations various Charter 77 signatories, human rights activists, critics of the communist regime, displaced politicians, or even banned writers, scholars, and journalists – people with whom the diplomats were generally friends.
But the sudden emergence of the 54-year-old Xi, a former Zhejiang Province party boss who became Shanghai’s top cadre seven months ago, says much about the CCP’s delicate factional balance and the behind-the-scenes jockeying.
Additional food must be produced using technologies that do not damage the natural resources that future generations will need in order to feed themselves; that do not fuel climate change, which weighs heavily on farmers; and that do not accelerate the disintegration of the delicate fabric of rural society.
It is a telling commentary on the moral bankruptcy of the UN that this decision comes at so delicate a time for the organization.
All the unsuccessful applicants are in a delicate and dangerous position, one which their luckier neighbors have an interest in improving.
The root causes of both countries’ missed deadlines will require delicate, skilled political handling to resolve.
The EU faces a delicate balancing act between the need to foster investment and the need to remain cautious, especially with public money.
But relations between Israel’s Jewish majority and Arab minority is an internal, delicate question in which it is not wise to involve Palestinians outside of Israel.
Thus, an argument could be made that during this delicate time of transition, and in the complete absence of any indication of progress, the peace process might well benefit – at least for the time being – from stalemate, if not benign neglect.
China finds itself in a delicate position, pulled in one direction by its desire to avoid a precipitous North Korean collapse, and in the opposite direction by its overriding need to deepen economic relations with the US, Japan, and South Korea.
Indeed, a “coalition of the unwilling” is finally forming to counter increasingly dominant Euro-skeptics, reflecting observers’ growing anxiety that Cameron’s risky strategy – which requires a delicate balance between demands and concessions – might fail, and that the UK will eventually leave the EU.
Nothing about Clinton’s trip was as path-breaking as her visit earlier this spring to Myanmar, where she met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein to lend her support to their delicate political dance, which may yet bring the country into the global democratic fold.
The IMF’s seniority is an unwritten principle, sustained in a delicate equilibrium, and high-volume lending is testing the limit.
Of course, the balance between consumer sovereignty and paternalism is always delicate.
In the delicate symbolic choreography of this peace process that new condition is seen by Sinn Fein as breaching the voluntary nature of the IRA's commitment to disarm, which it views as necessary to avoid the psychological/political stigma of being seen as having surrendered.
The Egypt-Israel Peace TestWASHINGTON, DC – The rocket strikes that a militant Islamist group recently fired from the Egyptian Sinai into the Israeli city of Eilat served as yet another reminder of how delicate bilateral relations remain two years after Egypt’s revolution.
In the nineteenth century, the delicate balance of power between European powers and the crumbling Ottoman fringe gave rise to the “Eastern Question.”
After a long, delicate negotiating process, the hostages were finally set free, on the day of President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.
It would take a good deal more than a hiccup in the EU’s delicate political process to bring integration to a standstill, let alone put it into reverse.
The so-called “Sarkozy carry trade” is no solution to the systemic consequences of a sovereign-debt meltdown, but it would resolve a politically delicate situation, in which vulnerable eurozone governments hold foreign banks in just few countries to ransom.
This is the most delicate issue of all for South Korea.
The more delicate question is to identify those factors that made wage moderation in the Netherlands possible.
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