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Some 70 years ago, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father, launched the movement to create an independent state for the Muslims of British India.
This unspoken arrangement dates from the founding of the Bretton Woods institution at a time when colonialism was still alive, and makes no sense in the twenty-first century.
The intellectual leadership provided by Frenchmen like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman as founding fathers of the European project is a fading memory, because Germany has yet to generate a comparably robust strategy for reviving the EU’s prospects and popularity.
Later that year, Robert Schumann – the French foreign minister at the time and a founding father of European integration – explicitly identified the ECSC with the drive for peace.
But it is also because the threat of a populist government in one of the EU’s founding states is, for the moment at least, a thing of the past.
Khamenei faces a deeper problem: he is not Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, his predecessor and the Islamic Republic’s founding Supreme Leader, who shaped the system’s identity.
But the motive of preventing the formation of a political bloc was never absent, and ran counter to the European founding fathers’ dream of a political union.
One of the main reform proposals, reportedly advocated by the United States and the European Union, is to move away from consensus-based decision-making – one of the WTO’s founding principles.
Crucially, those countries that join later should not have to make greater concessions than founding members.
Likewise, Altiero Spinelli, another of the EU’s founding fathers, wrote late in life that without visionary Europeans there would be no Europe, but without pragmatic statesmen, the visionaries would have gotten nowhere.
According to this principle, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, and Alcide de Gasperi – three of the EU’s founding fathers – would not measure up.
China’s Modernization AmbitionsBEIJING – Last October, as he opened the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping vowed that the country would have a “fully modern” economy by 2035, and would reach high-income status by 2049 – the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
These were created for the six founding countries and, through insistence on unanimity on most matters, are increasingly burdensome.
Yohei Sasakawa, a founding member of the Shared Concern Initiative, participated as the sole observer, mediating the talks in his capacity as Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for National Reconciliation in Myanmar.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has put off becoming a founding member, saying that “there is no rush” because governance details – such as investment conditions, voting, and veto rights – have not yet been confirmed.
If India’s founding fathers, like the passionate democrat Jawaharlal Nehru, had not been cremated, they would be turning over in their graves.
The first centennial goal is to build a “moderately prosperous society” (xiao-kang) by 2021, the 100th anniversary of the CPC’s founding.
The second centennial goal is to transform China into a “fully developed and advanced nation” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.
Then the Federal Service Bureau, formerly the KGB, celebrated the anniversary of the founding of its foreign service branch - ie, the spies - a reverie attended by a certain former employee named Putin.
To that end, I was proud to join the Atlantis Group as a founding member.
Treating all EU languages on the same footing is a direct consequence of the formal equality of member states under the founding treaties.
As a result, Israel’s population has risen ninefold since the country’s founding in 1948.
“How is it,” he asks, “that Israel – a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources – produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom?”
Since its founding in 1994, NAFTA has been characterized (at best) by a bilateral management of issues and problems.
Part of the Tea Party’s founding myth, of course, is that smaller government will lead to faster growth and greater prosperity for all.
More importantly, October will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples’ Republic of China, an occasion that the Party will commemorate in grand style.
The United Kingdom recently announced its intention to serve as a founding member of the AIIB, triggering a flood of applications from the likes of Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Korea, Russia, Turkey, and Spain.
Enshrined in the Chinese Communist Party’s constitution are the following words: “Mao Zedong, the Party’s chief representative, created Mao Zedong Thought, which has been proved correct by practice and based on which the Communist Party developed the basic system of socialism economically, politically, and culturally after the founding of the People’s Republic.”
Some depend on answers to prior questions about the founding of the state of Israel, the circumstances that led to many Palestinians becoming refugees, and responsibility for the failure of earlier efforts to reach a peaceful solution.
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