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China has a clear comparative advantage in infrastructure construction, owing to its lower labor costs (the cost of a project site foreman in China is one-eighth that of OECD countries) and vast domestic market, which have
enabled
it to achieve economies of scale that other countries simply cannot.
We need Bill Clinton’s extraordinary ability to spin a political narrative that
enabled
voters to identify their own interests with his goals.
The EU, Japan, and the US would be even more effective if they aligned their policies to prevent criminals from accessing their markets and
enabled
legitimate operators to benefit from a “supercharged” level of access.
Above all, it was encouraging the fear of eternal damnation that
enabled
ecclesiastics and their political allies to control the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
Just last year, it was revealed that HSBC
enabled
Mexican drug cartels to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through the US financial system.
In all that it does, from this moment on, the EU must affirm and advance the values – openness, human rights, knowledge, and the rule of law – that have
enabled
Europe to recover, grow, and thrive for more than seven decades.
The delay in reaching an agreement
enabled
most private creditors to escape the consequences of their reckless lending to Greece.
Yet the battle between secularism and religion in the Arab world does not have to last centuries, as it did in Europe, if only because contemporary generations can benefit from the long process of social and scientific progress that
enabled
the West to pave the way to modern democracy.
Indeed, adopting a hardline stance has
enabled
her to whitewash some inconvenient family history: Her father, the dictator Park Chung-hee, collaborated with the Japanese military while Korea was under colonial rule.
These countries’ openness to reconciliation have
enabled
Japan to recast itself as a key arbiter of regional peace and prosperity, not to mention an increasingly dynamic cultural hub.
Thus, unlike many countries in the North, Chile took advantage of the 2002-2007 expansion to run substantial budget surpluses, which
enabled
it to loosen fiscal policy in the 2008-2009 recession.
Within Japan, Englishnization has
enabled
us to hire more non-Japanese employees, including 80% of our new engineers since 2011.
Taboos had been broken, and during the subsequent decades, technological advances
enabled
the spread of new ideas.
But the stress tests and targeted TARP money, the path of least resistance taken,
enabled
the banks to earn their way back to solvency.
Recent steps – including the closure of the United States Agency for International Development, a requirement that foreign-funded noncommercial institutions register as “foreign agents,” termination of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and harassment of foreign civic and philanthropic entities – undermine the progress that US-Russian partnerships have
enabled.
That alliance
enabled
Japan to help defeat Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
Financial liberalization was lauded because it
enabled
capital to flow to where it would be used most productively, increasing national and global growth.
And the accumulated knowledge of microbial physiology and genetics
enabled
“foreign” DNA to be introduced into a cell’s DNA and made to function there.
A 1994 free-trade treaty with the EU
enabled
Estonian products to find new markets, and Estonia eventually became one of the most successful postcommunist transition countries, joining the EU and NATO in 2004.
The paradox is that while anxiety over China’s growing assertiveness has returned the US to the center of Asian geopolitics and
enabled
it to strengthen its security arrangements in the region, this has not led to action aimed at quelling China’s expansionary policies.
The dilemma for the junta is that Thaksin’s supporters – who are plentiful enough to have
enabled
his parties to win every election since 2001 – have been marginalized as well, with little say in the face of martial law and Prayut’s absolute rule.
He is “abandoning” China – which, it is claimed,
enabled
him to rise from extreme poverty to become one of the world’s wealthiest men – when the country needs him most.
Indeed, on Iran, Europe’s unified approach has
enabled
it to have a greater impact than on any other significant foreign-policy issue.
The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between China and Taiwan has
enabled
farmers and fishermen in southern Taiwan to prosper by selling agricultural and fisheries products to the enormous Chinese market, and the Kuomintang received higher support in the region than in past elections.
Consider the Swedish company Solarus AB, whose innovative business model – manufacturing solar panels out of carbon fibers discarded by the aerospace industry – has
enabled
it to offer competitively priced solar technologies, without support from government subsidies.
The policy was a success: the discipline imposed by strict and rigorous concentration on a sole objective
enabled
policymakers to control – and then conquer – inflation.
Multilateralism – long
enabled
by the same sort of asymmetric contribution, though typically proportionate to countries’ income and wealth – will also lose steam, as the trend toward bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements accelerates.
New bond issues, following a big debt write-down in 1924 (the Dawes Plan),
enabled
Germany to borrow the money to resume payments.
Having barely stopped to catch their breath, the US, France, and Britain – with the support of Wahhabi states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar – then moved to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fueling a civil war that
enabled
the Islamic State to seize territory and flourish.
The enactment of the Administrative Litigation Law in 1990
enabled
Chinese citizens to file lawsuits against local governments and public agencies.
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