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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains war cemeteries in India, mostly commemorating WWII rather than WWI soldiers.
But it maintains a nineteenth-century notion of sovereignty – namely, that a country’s national territory, its leaders have an absolute right to do whatever they want without outside “interference.”
Russia and Ukraine, however, already have a free-trade agreement, via the Commonwealth of Independent States free-trade agreement signed in October 2011, which is compatible with the proposed EU Association Agreement – in the same way that Mexico maintains free-trade treaties with the EU, as well as with the US and Canada.
Though Ukraine’s economy is collapsing, the government maintains excessive spending on subsidies that are incompatible with IMF aid.
Our new legislation, recently passed, allows for more private investment in the energy sector, while guaranteeing that Mexico maintains the property rights over its vast natural resources.
If the Trump administration maintains it, the prospects are slight that China can drive the US from the Western Pacific, much less dominate the world.
To scuttle efforts to build an international consensus against its unilateralism, China initiates and maintains generous aid and investment arrangements with countries in need.
In fact, there is a surprisingly large current of thought that maintains that stimulus packages simply do not work, ever.
But at the same time the OSCE is condemning these anti-democratic practices, its own Parliamentary Assembly maintains full-fledged cooperation with the Belarusian parliament.
So, in addition to the good relations that the EU maintains with both powers, the Union’s experience in multilateral problem solving could be invaluable.
Moreover, these trade agreements are often asymmetric--the North insists on the South opening markets and eliminating subsidies, while it maintains trade barriers and subsidizes its own farmers.
Refugee children lose out because they benefit mainly from humanitarian aid, which maintains a short-term focus on shelter and food, and development aid, which is by its very nature long-term.
In my opinion, it is superfluous to ask the Palestinians to recognize the nationhood of a people with thousands of years of history and a state that maintains diplomatic relations with 150 countries around the world.
Indian intelligence officials allege that the leader of a BNP coalition partner, Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini, maintains ties to the banned armed Islamist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, or Huji, which in turn is allegedly linked to Al Qaeda.
North Korea, which never had a transition and maintains heavy-handed central planning, is an economic basket case.
China maintains robust relationships with energy producers in the Middle East, Russia, and elsewhere (including booming Myanmar) – to secure and diversify its conventional sources.
He maintains day-to-day control over every aspect of government.
But how can this be possible if aging has many concurrent causes, as evolutionary theory maintains?
Because the dominant narrative still maintains that the pre-crisis period was normal, at least in terms of the growth pattern in the real economy, the perceived challenge is to restore growth according to the pre-crisis pattern.
Some argue that, as long as the US maintains its economic dynamism, leadership in technological innovation, and attractiveness to immigrants, income inequality is irrelevant.
Nothing better illustrates this than the world’s largest and oldest autocracy, China, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains its monopoly on power, even as pro-market reforms have enabled its economy to surge.
A dangerous world needs an actively engaged America, one that maintains security, defense, and intelligence cooperation with countries such as the UK.
Colombia maintains close ties with the US, which has provided $6 billion in aid over the past ten years – almost all of it coming in the form of military assistance – to strengthen the government’s ability to confront the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and drug traffickers.
Japan now spends more than $40 billion a year on defense and maintains one of the world’s most diverse and modern militaries.
China does aspire to be a maritime power, but its coasts are, to some extent, encircled by Japan and the Philippines, both US allies, and Taiwan, with which the US maintains security ties.
Israel provides electricity, water, and passage to Gaza, but also maintains a siege intended to prevent imports of larger, more lethal weapons.
Moreover, Egypt, Hamas’s patron and senior ally, maintains a relationship and channels of communication with Israel, and does not want to sever all ties – not least because to do so would provoke a confrontation with the United States, which underwrites the Egyptian army.
Moreover, like Germany, London maintains a huge current-account surplus (8% of GDP) – a potentially serious problem, given the deflationary effect that Germany’s surplus has had on the rest of the eurozone.
That has not only complicated its relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors, which have watched China’s rise with growing trepidation, but also with the United States, which maintains treaty ties with several of those states.
A sanctioned Russia – and a Russia that maintains its own set of sanctions – will be the new reality.
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