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But they should not refuse to acknowledge that China’s mission to turn a nation of 1.3 billion poor people into a developed country through peace and free trade is one of the great, honorable, and most difficult sagas in human history.
Apparently Xi’s promise of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” is inextricable from the erosion of smaller states’ sovereignty.
While taking care not to anger northern voters by openly distancing himself from Shari'ah, Buhari pledges to uphold the nation's secular constitution.
Obasanjo's government has no clear idea about how to address the nation's key problems--an ailing, oil-dependent economy hobbled by $30 billion in external debt, a deeply flawed unitary constitution forced on a socially-diverse people by the military in 1999, and an exploding youth population.
Furthermore, instead of pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into technical assistance and short-term capacity-building programs, the London conference should strive to help meet the Afghan government’s benchmark for equipping young people with the skills and education necessary to lead their nation to a future of peace and prosperity.
Until the 1980s the nation state remained an apparently effective arena for economic legislation.
One part seeks to protect the nation state or selected provinces against intrusive forces from without and/or less fortunate claimants from within.
If the absence of democracy in the Islamic world was the problem, bringing democracy to the “Greater Middle-East would be the solution, and it was the historical duty of the United States, as the most powerful and moral nation, to bring about that necessary change.
If the Palestinians are to avoid the sad destiny of the Kurds, the world’s largest stateless nation, and if Israel is to extricate itself from its suicidal march to an apartheid state, both parties need the world to save them from themselves.
Address to the Kurdish NationERBIL – By history and by language I am a member of a very old nation, one of the oldest in the world: France.
The Kurdish nation was forged over centuries of pain and pride.
For these reasons, I believe very deeply that, in this stormy region, swept by so many ill winds, threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that accompanies them, the rebirth of an independent Kurdish nation and state will mark an advance.
It will be small – a nation of only several million – but that will not make it fragile or weak.
When it came time to defend the nation, the sword has always been close to the plow.
The Kurds are such a nation: a people of volunteers who know why they fight, a people who, from the humblest to the greatest, from the Peshmerga regular to the loftiest of Kurdish commanders, does not hesitate to take up arms to discourage or to dismantle despotism – and not only on their behalf.
Like the French nation, which was enriched over the centuries by immigrants and oppressed peoples, the Kurds are diverse in origin and cosmopolitan in outlook.
By ignoring tribal affinities, Europeans hoped to create an Africa whose allegiance was to nation first and tribe second (or not at all).
MOSCOW – In 1811, assessing the possibility – or, rather, the impossibility – of Russia ever undergoing a Western-style transformation, the diplomat and counter-Enlightenment philosopher Joseph de Maistre famously wrote, “Every nation has the government it deserves.”
When one nation is intimidated or ostracized, all are not free.
The proud nation with the arrogant leader has been knocked down a peg; it turns out that the French are no different from anyone else.
US per capita greenhouse gas emissions, already the highest of any major nation when Bush took office, have continued to rise.
All that tough anti-Western rhetoric on behalf of the nation – the bare-chested horsemanship, the kissing of tigers, and the flying with cranes – has paid off: the aloof French have at long last recognized Russian superiority and are sending one of their greatest representatives to partake of it.
Jews were supposedly rootless, clannish, and omnipotent, with no loyalty to any nation.
If Israel was not just a fearful nation oppressing the Palestinian people, but the source of all evil, any form of violence, however destructive of self and others, could be justified.
Of course every scientist wants more money to do research; and every nation needs as much good science as it can get.
So long as the bad debts claim center stage, collapse of domestic finance and of a nation's currency becomes extreme.
Brutally competitive in both politics and world markets, innovative and resilient, China will be more dominant than any nation save America.
Today, China has the most federal governance structure of any large nation except the US.
All of this is taking place in a nation where Communist ideology remains strong and that remains in many respects a military dictatorship which threatens to conquer Taiwan by force, as well as uses North Korea, Pakistan, and Libya as stalking horses for weapons development.
Politically, China is comparable to the US in 1800: an emerging nation with high ideals but widespread poverty and many practices that others find intolerable.
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