Leaders
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China's
leaders
recognize the long-term imperative of serious institutional reform, even as concerns about slowing growth heighten the temptation to embrace short-term fixes.
Some religious
leaders
also condemned the use of modern scientific technology to replace sexual intercourse, even when it could not lead to conception.
Democratic countries’ political establishments seem to be in a permanent state of torpor, fueling voter demand for strong
leaders
who promise to smash through political gridlock and sweep away bureaucratic resistance to bold new policies.
These
leaders
– who assert that they alone can fix their countries’ problems – are often sought, and found, in the corporate world.
Corporate
leaders
must deliver for their shareholders, and shouldn’t bother themselves too much with what happens to the rest of society.
Political leaders, on the other hand, are bound by the principle of “one person, one vote,” and have a responsibility to take care of both the haves and have-nots, the employed and the unemployed alike.
Leaders
who approach a political task with a corporate mindset are likely to focus more on efficiency than inclusion.
Interestingly, many of the people who supported these reforms also favored “strong leaders.”
While some strong
leaders
managed to implement reforms quickly, the measures benefited only a minority of people, and many of them were eventually reversed.
And when some of these new
leaders
reversed the reforms, they also removed institutional checks on their power, in order to make it harder to challenge their decisions.
For the world’s political leaders, the first response must be to build a world order that is less reliant on US leadership and less vulnerable to the vagaries of American elections.
As was the case a century ago, vain and ignorant
leaders
are pushing into battle without clear purpose or realistic prospects for resolution of the underlying political, economic, social, or ecological factors that are creating the tensions in the first place.
The problem is that they have been talking to each other now for 17 years, under different Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and under two US Presidents.
Even the most moderate
leaders
on both sides could not agree on the core issues of the conflict: borders, settlements, Jerusalem, and the fate of 1947-1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is sticking with his old far-left extremism, except on immigration, where he is compromising one of Labour’s most sacred principles to curry favor with the shrinking electorate once claimed by Oswald Mosley and other far-right leaders, and now represented by the UK Independence Party.
But with even trade union
leaders
such as Unite’s Len McCluskey now criticizing Corbyn, a more moderate replacement could be found.
Shards of EuropePRINCETON – As European
leaders
struggle after another failed summit, they should think hard about what their continent – and the world – might look like if they continue to produce unsatisfactory solutions to Europe’s financial and economic problems.
A system that promised a level playing field on which anyone could fulfill their aspirations is being denounced by its own political
leaders
as stacked against ordinary citizens.
Xi’s Strong Hand Against TrumpLONDON – The world will soon witness a historic test of wills between China and the United States, two superpowers whose
leaders
see themselves as supreme.
Which balance should European
leaders
strike?
That was, after all, the kind of deal many
leaders
of the “Leave” campaign promised before the June referendum.
But politics continues to distort discussions, driving
leaders
to draw red lines on free movement and adopt mercantilist stances on financial services.
Yet before the cameras turn away from Ukraine, officials and
leaders
can ensure that a future administration there is not left facing bondholders one by one in international arbitration proceedings.
But there is an even more politically divisive question facing NATO’s
leaders
in Warsaw: its eastern members continue to perceive Russia as the biggest threat facing the Alliance, and thus demand that more attention and resources be devoted to their protection.
NATO’s ability to transform its strategic outlook and develop an effective southern strategy will depend on its leaders’ ability to reconcile the interests of these two groups of members.
Even if Israeli and Palestinian
leaders
can be persuaded to sign some kind of deal, it will not stand the test of time unless it is generally regarded as fair.
Finally, the success of the talks requires public support, which can be obtained only if the
leaders
genuinely give peace a chance.
Even today, with Mao’s revolution long gone and globalization having knit a new fabric of inter-dependence around China, there remains, particularly among older leaders, a residual wariness about relying on collaboration with outsiders, especially when it comes to “core interests.”
Issues such as nuclear proliferation and the global environment – and especially climate change – have also snuck up on China’s
leaders
(and everyone else).
Like it or not,
leaders
everywhere are now enfolded in an inescapable web.
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