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But with the onset of the Cold War and the emergence of the non-aligned movement, the
intentions
of the UN's founding fathers were progressively thwarted.
While it is difficult to determine China’s long-term strategic intentions, it is clear that the country’s efforts over the last decade to acquire advanced weapons systems, platforms, and technologies are gradually shifting regional security paradigms and challenging US strategic primacy.
The best way to do that would be to forgo “strategic patience” and begin informal contact with the North to probe Kim’s
intentions.
No matter how often Chinese leaders repudiate any hegemonic ambition, wariness about China’s true
intentions
will remain.
His governance by id means that he will always reveal his true self, whether in the form of maniacal claims like those about being wiretapped, or when he reveals his true
intentions
by saying that his latest travel ban is just the old one watered down.
Suspicions about Russia’s
intentions
have lately ballooned, as the country allegedly steps up its aid to the Assad regime, a longtime ally, and calls increasingly loudly for cooperation with the regime to combat the Islamic State.
Nepotism, patronage within the family circle, is thus a natural way for anybody in power, or aspiring to it, to strengthen his support in societies where other institutions are weak or non-existent, or where the destruction of existing institutions forms part of the power-grabber's
intentions.
Gaps between public statements and private
intentions
open up in all political systems, but these become huge in a complex multinational structure like the EU.
All the recent suggestions for closer transatlantic ties are not serious proposa1s to negotiate, merely declarations of good
intentions
But the problem cannot be doaged for long.
Our decision more than a decade ago to surrender Ukraine’s status as a nuclear nation is the clearest sign of our good neighborly
intentions
and political maturity.
Needling an eager-to-please India on its troubled northern borders helps China to keep India guessing about its intentions, exposes the giant democracy’s vulnerabilities in an election year, and cuts a potential strategic rival down to size.
The fact that Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, is not especially keen to agree to the United Nations’ plan to beef up its peacekeeping force in the country ahead of the referendum raises concern about his
intentions.
The unexpected Crimea crisis, anxiety about Russia’s
intentions
in the region, and Western sanctions have further unnerved already skittish investors.
After all, we can’t possibly know more than the man himself about his
intentions.
Indeed, a sense of trust in others’
intentions
is central to a functioning economy.
The real litmus test of Xi’s
intentions
will be whether his government prosecutes Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the CCP’s highest policymaking body.
For the first time in years, they question their leaders’ real
intentions
and their capacity to deliver better living standards.
To divine his
intentions
and future policies requires focusing on his actions – what he does, not what he says.
And let’s not forget the attitude of moderate Arab governments toward this war and to the hidden
intentions
of those who sought it.
Google is perhaps the purest example of a company that transforms purchase
intentions
into income; most other “Internet” companies offer something of independent value on the other side of those searches.
In India, for example, a draft mini-grid policy has languished for two years, while in Sub-Saharan Africa, good
intentions
are often derailed by bureaucracy and lobbying from big power companies.
Instead, however good its intentions, the net effect of too much Fed speak has been vagueness and uncertainty.
According to this view, negotiators must obscure their real plans or intentions, as they work to seize a dominant position and, ultimately, to vanquish their foes.
Rising powers tend to demand a greater role in international politics, declining powers tend to be reluctant to adjust, and key policymakers are likely to misunderstand the
intentions
of other countries’ leaders and overreact to their actions.
An approval in principle signals the Fund’s endorsement of a country’s economic policy
intentions.
Unless the Trump administration can work well with a cooperative Congress to translate market-motivating
intentions
into well-calibrated actions soon, the lagging hard data risks dragging down confidence, creating headwinds that extend well beyond financial volatility.
That road to Europe, however, wasn't paved with good intentions; it often wasn't paved at all.
Whereas French
intentions
to reform the international monetary system had initially been received skeptically, suddenly reform looks like the right priority at the right time.
What has heightened ASEAN’s concern about Beijing’s
intentions
is that even if China could reasonably claim sovereignty over all of the land features in the South China Sea, and all of them were habitable, the Exclusive Economic Zones that went with them would not include anything like all of the waters within the dashed-line of its 2009 map.
This is by far the most direct statement of China’s
intentions
on this important question offered so far.
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