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Such political goodwill is essential for regional stability, particularly given the deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations following last year’s confrontation over the arrest of a Chinese fisherman by Japan’s coast guard.
In Colombia and Mexico, hundreds of journalists have been placed under armed guard to protect them from criminal syndicates.
As a result, well-designed blockchains need to consider the limitations of their users’ hardware and guard against spamming.
Instead, Manila port officials and the Philippine coast guard permitted the Princess of the Stars to set sail, despite clear warnings by the weather bureau that the ship was headed for the eye of the typhoon.
Therefore, to guard against exchange-rate volatility or US interest-rate changes, emerging markets should work to improve their business environments to attract FDI, which would reduce their reliance on short-term infusions of “hot money” – and thus lower their vulnerability to abrupt capital-flow reversals.
The Federal Reserve would then have to fight inflation – putting upward pressure on unemployment – in order to reassure savers and lenders of its willingness to guard price stability.
He insisted that Israel could guard against threats from the east only if it maintained a military presence in the West Bank and controlled the Jordan River – which runs along the border separating Jordan from Israel and the West Bank.
Then he began vetoing virtually all decisions by the government, causing a political stalemate, and, toward the end of his presidency, tacitly joined with the old guard (now back in power) against then-Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko (whose party, to its credit, had voted against the constitution).
In the meantime, national and international institutional frameworks must continue to guard against destructive actions by political leaders.
Finally, the international community must guard against regional arrangements, such as China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which are intended to promote development but can end up undermining partner countries.
In the ancient past, today’s unprecedented developments would have put people on guard for signs of a coming apocalypse.
Many companies were caught off guard by the crisis, loaded with debt and now devoid of prospects.
Then the global financial crisis erupted a decade ago, catching Europe off guard.
In particular, in October 2015, the United States withdrew its Patriot missiles from southeastern Turkey, which had been deployed after the country appealed to its NATO allies to guard against missile threats from neighboring Syria.
Both responses recognized the need for transparency, including updates on the number and location of infections and public advisories on how to guard against COVID-19.
Policymakers are convening experts from industry and academia to figure out how to ensure that such threats do not catch critical organizations off guard again.
To steal bricks and cable from construction sites, citizens removed planks from wooden fences, or climbed over concrete ones, at the risk of being scratched by rusty nails or barbed wire, bitten by guard dogs, or even shot at with rock salt.
If protesters in the US or France were rioting for six months, the government would send in the national guard to quell the unrest.
If they are not wearing a mask, their lack of symptoms puts us off guard, implying that wearing a mask may indirectly cause COVID-19 to spread more.
To guard against future supply-chain shocks, companies in advanced economies will re-shore production from low-cost regions to higher-cost domestic markets.
As workers have joined with flower-bearing women in white, doctors, and artists, Lukashenko has been caught completely off guard.
Algerians are demanding new political institutions and an orderly transition that prevent the old guard from taking advantage of the interregnum to reclaim power.
Children take lessons in “patriotic education,” fidelity is cultivated through the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League, and universities have developed elaborate systems to guard against political deviance and reward political loyalty with jobs.
In early April, for example, a Chinese coast guard ship rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat, prompting the United States to caution China to “stop exploiting the [pandemic-related] distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims in the South China Sea.”Enjoy unlimited access to the ideas and opinions of the world's leading thinkers, including weekly long reads, book reviews, and interviews;The Year Ahead annual print magazine; the complete PS archive; and more – All for less than $9 a month.
Having spent over a decade as a border guard – including on the Kenyan frontier when violence erupted over that country’s 2007 election – I know how difficult it can be to ensure safety at the border.
When we get through the immediate crisis, we will make the necessary changes to ensure we are never caught off guard again.
When asked about his Trump-like choice of words, Barr resorted to conspiracy theory, suggesting that a “Praetorian Guard” within the US intelligence community may have had designs to influence US elections.
National-security professionals should be particularly on guard for whatever is coming next.
And India is making sure that it will not be caught off guard again.
Some observers say central banks can best guard against political interference by retreating to the narrow price-stability mandate that served them so well prior to the crisis.
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