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The US may no longer be the world’s undisputed leader, as it was in the decade following the Soviet Union’s collapse, but it nonetheless has a vital role to play in international affairs.
Whatever is said in that hearing could provide North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with a ready excuse to renege on his already-vague denuclearization agreement with Trump.
Less than a year after his narrow victory over opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential elections, Tymoshenko was arrested on trumped-up contempt charges.
Similarly, opposition leaders in Zimbabwe have been prosecuted for treason; sodomy charges were leveled against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim; and former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was imprisoned for allegedly organizing mass protests.
Zhao’s persecution was the persecution of a leader who dedicated himself for over a decade to groundbreaking efforts that became the foundations of China’s economic reform.
But Zhao was also the only CCP leader to propose a political reform package to tackle China’s system of one-party rule.
For many observers, populism is unthinkable without a strong, direct bond between an anti-establishment leader and citizens who feel neglected by mainstream political parties.
A leader who can represent this purely moral – as opposed to political – image helps to provide a focus for voters.
Its two super-power assets – nuclear weapons and energy – make it a potential leader of all those lesser powers dissatisfied with their position in the world.
Of course, it is not very difficult to envisage the voluntary reincorporation of the ethnic Russian populations of Belarus, eastern Ukraine, and northern Kazakhstan into the Russian Federation – but only in a context in which Russia emerges as a true regional leader on a par with the EU.
The agency’s new leader, Dmitry Kiselyov, announced in November the creation of “Sputnik,” a government-funded network of news hubs in 34 countries, with 1,000 staff members producing radio, social media, and news-wire content in local languages.
For the first time, a Thai political leader asked the mass of the people to vote for him because he promised to do something for them.
The Yugoslav army would have been integrated into NATO’s military system and unable to be used by a reckless Serb leader to gain territory at the expense of the other republics.
Consider, for example, Colombia’s grim ranking as global leader in the number of victims injured by landmines.
Indeed, if there were such a thing as a combined index of despair, Colombia would be an undisputed leader.
Back then, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had forbidden Khatami to speak with the Americans.
This year, the overall leader, two other riders, and two teams were expelled or withdrew from the race as a result of failing, or missing, drug tests.
Still others, like the Fed’s current leader, Janet Yellen, suggest that investment and interest rates are depressed as a result of the damage done to the economy and the labor force during the Great Recession.
In Lebanon, the leader of Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, merely calls for the Egyptian government’s overthrow.
But, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, the average tenure of a G20 political leader has fallen to a record-low 3.7 years (compared to six years in 1946).
Europe does not have an uncontested leader to impose policy preferences on everyone else.
And, second, Trump’s dysfunctional administration is a model of how not to govern, and voters could punish those, like French National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who continue to emulate it.
But none of these ancestral claims to power appear capable of sublimating the will of the people to elect their future leader democratically.
Each leader undoubtedly wants the other to make concessions on these issues, so that he can emerge “victorious” from the summit.
Invariably, when she traveled on business to Beijing, she would insist on first shopping for a present for the former Chinese leader, Zhao Ziyang, with whom she had negotiated Hong Kong’s handover.
As a national leader, Thatcher’s principal achievements were to reverse Britain’s decline, which had gained momentum in the 1970’s, before her first term as Prime Minister in 1979.
An effective leader, she believed, could shift this political terrain by convincing people of the truth and relevance of his or her position.
But she was undoubtedly a giant of twentieth-century politics, a leader who changed her and our world – for the better.
More likely than not, over-zealous junior officials pushed a hard line on the South China Sea, whereas no Chinese leader, if given the choice, would have opted to wreck the AMM Communiqué.
The challenge for the world now is that China has become politically pluralistic: no leader is strong enough to make wise unilateral concessions.
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