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The PLA National Defense University's Major General Ji Mingkui argues that the initiative can help China to craft a “new image" and “win influence," especially as the US “pivot" to Asia “loses momentum."
The result of Germany’s approach – “do as we do, or leave us alone” – is inertia, at a moment when Europe desperately needs momentum.
Success in July and September will give momentum to the decisive climate-change negotiations in Paris next December.
Driven by this new momentum, growth will finally reach the long-elusive 4% rate next year.
This meeting in Rome from November 16-18 provides badly needed political momentum to three linked issues that rank among the most challenging of the current era: food security, biodiversity, and climate change.
Following a sustained period in which China drove global growth, it seems as though its great “opening up” is losing momentum.
Fourth, a reduction in trade could sap the reform momentum China needs to iron out the many inefficiencies in its domestic economy.
With greater clarity in terms of Chinese and US policy, both economies should gain momentum.
If they fail, the momentum behind regional integration – which has brought peace, prosperity, and hope to hundreds of millions of people – will weaken considerably, to the detriment of all.
A reduction of tensions with Greece would improve Turkey’s image in the West and could give new momentum to its stalled bid for EU membership.
Nonetheless, it is clear that trade liberalization is gaining momentum.
The eurozone emerged from the financial crisis in 2008-2009 with some economic momentum.
In 2015, the MSC helped to generate momentum for the subsequent deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
Words are cheap, and, despite the continent’s positive momentum, we know that history is littered with squandered dreams – nowhere more so than in Africa.
Winning with Opium in AfghanistanDespite considerable effort by the international community in Afghanistan since 2001 to eliminate the Taliban and al Qaeda, the insurgency in the south of the country has gathered momentum at breakneck speed in recent months.
But these are not sufficient to rebalance the economy and restore its growth momentum.
This new danger to Africa must be addressed if the continent is to maintain its upward momentum.
To destroy the ETS now would be to disable the only mechanism that has managed to create any momentum in discussions that have been dragging on for two decades.
That means resisting the trend, which has lately gained momentum, toward bypassing these institutions in favor of bilateral or regional arrangements.
That is welcome, because too often politicians, driven by the momentum of their own thoughts, make decisions that have serious adverse consequences in the long term.
There is already momentum behind this plan, given the support of the World Bank, the UN, and all the major regional development banks.
Otherwise, we will see the shift toward an unruly world, one shaped by passion and power grabs, gain momentum.
Europe’s Bretton Woods MomentPRINCETON – After years of paralysis during the debt crisis that began in 2009, the European Union seems to have regained some momentum.
The repression of the Greek Spring in 2015 led the left-wing Podemos party to lose its momentum in Spain; no doubt many of its potential voters feared a fate similar to ours.
Reactions to this perilous momentum came without delay.
The rapid increase thus appears to be mostly the result of speculative momentum that occurred before the interest-rate cuts.
A strong HFCs agreement in Kigali would add momentum to these efforts and provide financial support for developing countries that want to move to newer technologies but currently can’t afford it.
We are confident that the governments preparing to meet in Kigali understand the need for a strong HFCs amendment, which would give momentum to other agenda items, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in Marrakesh.
Just as US leadership once galvanized international support for tackling issues such as HIV/AIDS, the current US approach could give momentum to isolationist and anti-feminist forces around the world.
On the home front, attempts by Likud and its right-wing allies to tamper with the legal system, the press, and other institutions identified with the “old elite” are likely to gain momentum.
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