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Persuading the US Congress to agree on corporate and personal income-tax reform, a $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, and a replacement for Obama’s signature health-care reform won’t be easy, to say the least.
More than 60 countries have welcomed Xi’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and 28 heads of state will attend an OBOR summit in Beijing on May 14.
It is there not because Putin is right, or even because he is stronger, but because he is taking the initiative.
In this sense, the initiative was doomed from the start – and the whole world has suffered as a result.
Their chairs should have wider discretion to act on their own initiative.
In their view, markets and private initiative require no significant regulation.
The goal of the Accords, largely the result of the Soviet Union’s initiative, was to improve relations between the Cold War antagonists – and, for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to formalize international recognition of post-World War II national borders.
These two practices alone could do more to reduce infant mortality than just about any other global health initiative.
Those countries that have stepped forward as “friends of the Constitution” have also been making clear that the initiative they launched in Madrid will support the German Presidency’s efforts.
an initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, confessed that this campaign had kept them exceptionally busy.
Both proposed FTAs – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), mainly a US-Asia initiative, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a largely US-Europe project – are far-reaching agreements.
We remain narrowly focussed on whether an initiative will be immediately good or bad for us.
Consider MERCOSUR, the main post-Cold War regional initiative.
But an institutional mechanism is needed to implement this initiative, such as an inter-Korean consultative body.
It put the US in effective opposition to the United Nations peace initiative then being led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose approach was to call for a ceasefire followed by a negotiated political transition.
The Russians openly backed Annan’s peace initiative.
Euro-zone policymakers should also seize the initiative in the world’s key economic clubs.
Unless European countries take the initiative on global financial institutional reform, it will remain a lost cause.
Nuclear disarmament is therefore still urgently needed, and prominent politicians in the US and Germany have produced the US-led Global Zero initiative and createdthe International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), sponsored by Australia and Japan and co-chaired by former Foreign Ministers Yoriko Kawaguchi and Gareth Evans.
Some are already seizing the funding opportunities under what is essentially a climate-change initiative to pursue broader sustainability goals.
This initiative failed for two reasons.
The Bush administration must lead the Western initiative in harmonized, direct negotiations with Iran, and, if these negotiations succeed, the US must also be willing to agree to appropriate guarantees.
But such an initiative can succeed only if the American administration assumes leadership among the Western nations and sits down at the negotiating table with Iran.
Given that it is based only in London, having grown out of an initiative by the Bank of England 20 years ago, and that most of its members are lawyers, most banks have not even heard of it (though some of them are represented on its Council).
This comes as little surprise, as America’s Constitution and political system delegate most of the initiative on foreign policy and defense to the president.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump oppose the biggest trade initiative launched by President Barack Obama’s administration – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 11 other Pacific Rim countries – and both would revisit the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has been in force since 1994.
The other major Obama-led trade initiative, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the European Union, is all but dead, crippled by opposition on both continents and by the UK’s Brexit referendum result, widely interpreted as a vote for protectionism.
The US Defense Department’s microelectronics initiative required not only new materials and circuits, but also new methods of fabrication.
A desperate Voronin has turned for help to the EU’s “border assistance mission,” but an EU initiative would need Russian cooperation.
With India, we have developed an unprecedented bilateral initiative that will streamline our export processes and deepen our defense trade and co-production.
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