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It took the idea of the New Silk Road and turned it into a multi-trillion-dollar trade, investment, infrastructure, and wider geopolitical/geo-economic initiative, engaging 73 different countries across much of Eurasia, Africa and beyond.
While the US has now explicitly welcomed the European initiative, it remains openly skeptical and unwilling to join, thus weakening the chances of success.
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), an international initiative launched eight years ago, is based on the principle that local communities themselves are the best trustees of the environment that surrounds them, and that their economic growth will advance their capacity to care for nature.
Rather than waiting for someone else to push back against the Trump administration’s demolition of multilateral structures, Europe must take the initiative, imagining a system without the US.
Here, French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to create a European military force beyond NATO is essential.
But, because the costs of any initiative to combat climate change must be borne in the present, they are necessarily higher at present values.
An international initiative for the renewal and improvement of the international control regime, led by both big nuclear powers, is urgently needed to meet these and all other risks of the new nuclear age.
If the international community is to remain credible, a regional initiative for collective security – a Madrid II – needs to be taken.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ initiative to unite the Palestinian leadership may lead to greater moderation on the part of Hamas and create real prospects for the negotiation of a two-state solution.
Until now, the Fund has sycophantically supported each new European initiative to rescue the over-indebted eurozone periphery, committing more than $100 billion to Greece, Portugal, and Ireland so far.
China’s ambitious initiative would provide badly needed highways, rail lines, pipelines, ports, and power plants in poor countries.
According to the Financial Times, investment in Xi’s initiative declined last year, raising doubts about whether commercial enterprises are as committed as the government.
From a geopolitical perspective, China’s AIIB initiative is a bold and successful gambit in what Ely Ratner, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, describes as “an institutional competition for global governance that has now officially begun.”
Putin’s effort to unify the ex-Soviet states is hardly the only initiative that exemplifies his flawed vision.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in June 2014 that the initiative has so far been a failure.
Europe’s role in this initiative is already emerging with the Greek port of Piraeus, operated partly by the Chinese state-owned naval company COSCO, set to be a stop on the maritime route.
The New Silk Road initiative reaffirms China’s desire to establish itself as a Eurasian power.
Declaring in advance - in defiance of the elementary rules of war making - that NATO will not use ground troops gave Milosevic the advantages of initiative and a sense of security.
The initiative has met with some success, although it has not completely halted trade in diamonds from conflict-torn countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The initiative must come from France and Germany, the monetary union’s two largest economies, while also involving other euro countries.
This initiative would acknowledge that boosting growth requires investment, but that funding should be conditioned on demonstrated action.
The European Stability Mechanism could potentially provide such funds, starting with a limited amount and expanding the scope if the initiative is successful.
Politically, it would be smart if German Chancellor Angela Merkel were to take the initiative in proposing such a grand solution, rather than being forced into piecemeal, reluctant concessions by new governments in Greece, Spain, or elsewhere.
South Africa needs to reclaim the economic initiative, by – literally – building the Africa of the future.
Only by boldly seizing the initiative can South Africa put itself at the core of Africa’s economic renewal, and only by embracing its role as regional leader can it revitalize its own prospects.
Though the Minsk II initiative exposed Europe's meager political clout, it also confirmed the indispensability of Franco-German cooperation, as well as Germany's changed role within the EU.
But, whatever combination of events brought about his change of heart, election initiative should be welcomed.
To that end, the African Union should endorse a new African Leaders for Nutrition initiative that is developing scorecards for agriculture and nutrition programs.
In the spirit of reform, our organizations have joined forces to establish the Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean, an initiative designed to help the region’s countries meet their development goals as they move toward higher income levels.
Simply put, the Silk Road initiative is designed to make China the hub of a new order in Asia and the Indian Ocean region.
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