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The executive branch also appoints government officials, commands the armed forces, and meets with leaders of other nations.
And a Soviet delegate at the U.N. mockingly suggested that the U.S. should receive foreign aid for developing nations.
As a second example, imagine an allied group of nations cooperatively infiltrating the computer systems of an enemy nation's nuclear warship.
As a defensive measure, the enemy country responds by unleashing a defensive cyberattack that results in the allied nations' power grids going down.
But it's not just the developed nations.
After Portugal and the Netherlands switched to metric voluntarily, other nations followed, with colonial empires spreading the system around the world.
But nations aren't waiting, they're going ahead.
This is a complex problem that persists despite efforts from major chocolate companies to partner with African nations to reduce child and indentured labor practices.
This act triggered the First Opium War between the two nations.
Connectography represents a quantum leap in the mobility of people, resources and ideas, but it is an evolution, an evolution of the world from political geography, which is how we legally divide the world, to functional geography, which is how we actually use the world, from nations and borders, to infrastructure and supply chains.
Our global system is evolving from the vertically integrated empires of the 19th century, through the horizontally interdependent nations of the 20th century, into a global network civilization in the 21st century.
Our traditional map of 200 discrete nations that hang on most of our walls, or this map of the 50 megacity clusters?
It is evolving into what I call a Pax Asiana, a peace among Southeast Asian nations.
It pretends we can isolate ourselves and our nations from one another.
Well, once you protect the core interests of nations, then you can understand that nations were ready to begin to converge onto a common path, onto a common direction of travel that is going to take us probably several decades, but over those several decades is going to take us into the new economy, into a decarbonized, highly resilient economy, And the national contributions that are currently on the table on behalf of national governments are insufficient to get us to a stabilized climate, but they are only the first step, and they will improve over time.
Because what we have learned in the last three years is that this segment of the market, whether it's education or under-developed nations, either way, it's a segment that demands incredibly high quality, incredibly high reliability, tremendous low cost and access, and a lot of challenges that frankly, without actually doing it, it would be very difficult to understand, and I'll explain that in just a minute.
Consider, Canada today is among the world's most welcoming nations, even compared to other immigration-friendly countries.
Our most recent move is the Paris treaty, and the resulting climate agreements that are being ratified by nations around the world.
I think we can be very hopeful that those agreements, which are bottom-up agreements, where nations have said what they think they can do, are genuine and forthcoming for the vast majority of the parties.
Different nations make different energy choices.
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa.
We also see disasters like Hurricane Matthew, which recently wreaked havoc in many different nations, but caused the most damage to Haiti.
It's actually the drug of choice in a lot of developing nations, because it doesn't affect breathing.
So it's really important that you know that right now we have over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of nine nations.
So, most of the world's nuclear nations have committed to getting rid of these weapons of mass destruction.
But consider this: the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which is the most widely adopted arms control treaty in history with 190 signatories, sets no specific date by which the world's nuclear-armed nations will get rid of their nuclear weapons.
Because in 1991, which is the year that Jasmine was born and the Soviet Union fell, these two nations engaged in a project that genuinely does seem incredible today in the truest sense of that word, which is that the US sent cash to the Russians when they needed it most, to secure loose nuclear materials and to employ out-of-work nuclear scientists.
So the result is that for over 20 years, our two nations had a program that meant that one in 10 lightbulbs in the United States was essentially fueled by former Russian warheads.
So, together these two nations did something truly audacious.
Both oil-rich nations, it's like they have money spurting out of a hole in the ground.
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