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For the US, China’s growing power actually helps to validate its forward military deployments in Asia, maintain existing allies in the region, and win new strategic partners.
Despite America’s “pivot” to Asia, it intends to stick to its two-pronged approach: seek to maintain a balance of power with the help of strategic allies and partners, while continuing to accommodate a rising China.
Others maintain that a temporary increase in spending now would boost growth.
One, of course, concerns the supposed "clash of civilisations": how do we keep a focused and limited conflict between the UN and Iraq distinct from the need to maintain a relationship of dialogue between world religions?
In this respect, Sri Lanka’s ability to maintain its democracy throughout decades of war gives reason for hope.
Moreover, ongoing interest-rate liberalization – which has occurred both openly and surreptitiously – means that artificially low borrowing costs have become far more difficult to maintain.
Economics teaches that countries should maintain open economic borders, sound prudential regulation and full-employment policies, not because these are good for other countries, but because they serve to enlarge the domestic economic pie.
Many Chinese support government censorship: They see it as a way to maintain civility and order.
Remaining in step with each other on security issues is essential if Japan and the US are to maintain a firm alliance to ensure the stability of the Asia-Pacific region.
It is restricting the immigrants who are needed to maintain growth as the US population ages.
To maintain that not enough is being spent for some environmental purposes - say, reducing carbon emissions - implies that too much is being spent on others.
What is astonishing about this “model” is that it has enabled China to maintain rapid growth within a relatively stable political environment for 30 years.
If the economy cannot maintain high growth rates, mounting unemployment could combine with an accumulation of unresolved political and social issues to create a risk of major social unrest.
Second, China’s fiscal surplus, growing foreign-exchange reserves, and high savings rate have ensured the financial resources needed to maintain adequate investment and sufficiently rapid growth.
Finally, the authorities have subtly used the media to maintain consumer confidence by managing public criticism and thereby helping maintain popular trust in the government and the economy.
Most forecasts suggest that, with a huge effort, China can maintain 8% growth in 2009.
The Bush doctrine is built on two pillars: first, the US will do everything in its power to maintain its unquestioned military supremacy and, second, the US arrogates the right to preemptive action.
Yet, in the case of the US-led strike, it was not Russian soldiers who died, but mercenaries, whose participation in the conflict reflects the Kremlin’s desire to maintain plausible deniability.
So, officially, Russia was to maintain in Syria only limited forces at Russia’s permanent military bases in Tartus and Khmeimim.
Most obvious, propping up the Assad regime enables Russia to maintain a foothold in the Middle East, while sending the message that popular revolts aimed at overthrowing Russian allies will not succeed.
But France has always sought to maintain a capacity for strategic autonomy, and Macron hopes that the weakening of the US strategic guarantee will convince Europeans, who have long lagged on the establishment of a stronger common defense posture, to do the same.
Some South Africans called for Nuremberg-type trials, especially for perpetrators of those atrocities that were designed to maintain the vicious apartheid system.
To ward off an offensive by German (and other) monetary hawks, who maintain that the ECB has opened the door to debt monetization, the Bank is bound to err on the side of orthodoxy in the coming months.
Supporters of military assistance argue that weapons systems are needed to fight affiliates of Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State in the Sinai and to maintain American influence with Egypt’s generals.
As the world slowly moves from elation to sober realism, it is important to maintain a balanced view of what’s happening and avoid the dual risks of underestimating the truly revolutionary nature of what took place and overestimating the ability of Obama’s team to find miracle solutions.
Added to this “new isolationism” is the fact that governments, multi-national corporations, and international bodies can often find themselves too distracted to maintain the perspective that they need to build a comprehensive problem-solving agenda.
The result is excessively high financing costs, which have made it impossible for firms in many manufacturing industries to maintain marginal profitability.
Monetary loosening is vital to prevent growth from slowing further, and thus to ensure economic stability at home and maintain the momentum of recovery worldwide.
In fact, a clear distinction can be drawn between two subsets of legislative achievements: those that, while not meaningless, are incomplete, superficial, or essentially maintain the status quo, and those that will change Mexico (if all goes well).
Locals say he was shot by the police, who have now been joined by the military to maintain order.
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