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What else can explain the treatment of Obama on his first trip to China and during the disastrous 2009 climate-change conference in Copenhagen, where a relatively minor Chinese official wagged his finger in the face of the US president?
Environmental deterioration is severe, the “Gini index” (the gap between rich and poor) is widening, and official corruption has not been curbed.
Monnet had some knowledge of coal and steel, having been involved, as a League of Nations official, in finding a settlement for the question of Upper Silesia after WWI.
Obama’s TightropeCAMBRIDGE – According to a United States State Department official, the concept of “smart power” – the intelligent integration and networking of diplomacy, defense, development, and other tools of so-called “hard” and “soft” power – is at the heart of the Obama administration’s foreign-policy vision.
Such agreements may be positive developments, but they are no substitute for official, enforceable international rules of conduct.
In September, a leading European Union official said of a proposed measure, “This is a French-style reform!”
Professor Yu Keping, an influential Communist official and author of a prominent book called Democracy Is a Good Thing, is said to have the ear of President Hu.
On a recent trip to these countries, and despite repeated requests, no politician or public-health official in either country would meet with me.
As Evan Feigenbaum, the top State Department official for South Asia recently said, “the world of 2008 is not the world of 1948.
As a senior foreign ministry official told Emmott in 2007, “the thing you have to understand is that both of us [India and China] think that the future belongs to us.
Or, as Robert Zoellick, currently the president of the World Bank, put it when he was a State Department official, the US should invite China to become a “responsible stakeholder” in the international system.
A constitutional amendment that allowed symbolic changes, like an official declaration of Catalonia as a “nation,” or substantive initiatives, like a fiscal pact, would satisfy most Catalans while maintaining Spain’s territorial integrity.
One police official even warned that anyone who ignored the government’s ban on demonstrating would be “beaten like stray dogs.”
But addressing debt risk in China – where social financing (a broad measure of credit, covering official and shadow bank lending and equity) rose from 130% of GDP to 207% early this year – is far from straightforward.
It is a deeply disturbing vision, one that amounts to a huge, uninformed gamble with the future of the American economy – and that suggests that Geithner remains the senior public official worldwide who is most in thrall to the self-serving ideology of big banks.
But, increasingly, official financing is coming from the European Central Bank – first with bond purchases, and then with liquidity support to banks and the resulting buildup of balances within the eurozone’s Target2 payment system.
Thus, Germany and the eurozone core have increasingly outsourced official financing of the eurozone’s distressed members to the ECB.
A futile attempt to avoid a breakup for a year or two – after wasting trillions of euros in additional official financing by the core – would mean a disorderly end, including the destruction of the single market, owing to the introduction of protectionist policies on a massive scale.
Any decision maker who depends on forecasts – a businessman, an investor, or a government official – needs to know the probability of very low or very high growth rates, as well as the median forecast.
In contrast, when corruption is chaotic, entrepreneurs face greater uncertainty: paying a bribe to one official is no guarantee that other officials will not demand a payoff as well.
"It concerns whether the big countries are willing to sacrifice any measure of national sovereignty for the European good," said one influential ECB official.
"The Germans at least are trying to rein in their deficits," the official went on.
The country’s mounting problems – rampant official corruption, decaying social and physical infrastructure, and growing ethnic and religious insurgencies in the northeast, central region, the southeast, and Niger Delta – are yet to be seriously tackled.
On May 26, while speaking with his family by phone, Haque, an elected official in southern Bangladesh, was gunned down by police in an apparent extrajudicial killing.
The underlying political drivers of social frustration and conflict – disenfranchisement, repression, pervasive official corruption, unaccountable rulers, and predatory state institutions and policies – remain unchanged.
The program, announced by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in November, amounts to a massive shadow budget, twice as large as the European Union’s annual official budget, that will finance public investment projects and ultimately help governments circumvent debt limits established in the Stability and Growth Pact.
The regime even dispatched two spies to Seoul to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-level North Korean official ever to defect to South Korea.
Summers was a key architect of neo-liberal policies while at the World Bank and the US Treasury during the Clinton administration, and Geithner is a former senior IMF official.
Israel’s Clear-Eyed DovesHAIFA – Now that the official campaign leading up to Israel’s January 22 general election has kicked off, it is perhaps useful to define the heart of the political battle as one between “doves” and “hawks.”
For example, just last month in Tanzania, hundreds of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people were forced into hiding after a city official in Dar es Salaam warned that a taskforce was being created to identify and punish gay people.
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