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European officials are right to promote structural reforms of EU countries’ labor and product markets.
For example, officials recently declared that judicial independence and the separation of powers are “colonial” legacies that should be discarded, with China’s government and Hong Kong’s chief executive, not the local courts, calling all the shots.
Fortunately, China is still enough of a planned economy that officials can mobilize policies to cushion the impact.
Officials argued that such tools are more effective than capital-flow measures, which “are, in general, hard to implement and rather easy to circumvent.”
Despite Iranian officials’ best efforts to downplay the sanctions’ impact, it is difficult to spin inflation in excess of 30% and projected GDP growth of just 1% this year.
After all, Iranian officials have thus far not demonstrated their commitment to accepting stringent and verifiable checks.
Of course, whenever the Israelis defy the world over the settlements, as is now once again happening, US and other officials “denounce” and “regret” the decision.
Anticipating a skeptical public reaction when Singapore raised the salaries of government officials in 2007, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that he would forgo the raise for himself.
Installing metal detectors in airports in 1973 decreased skyjackings but increased kidnappings; fortifying American embassies reduced the number of attacks on embassies but increased the number of assassinations of diplomatic officials.
Such messages must be issued more often by the president himself, and not only by officials several bureaucratic layers below.
Some analysts have recently claimed that this is because the pursuit of GDP growth, job creation, and financial stability, as well as the establishment of priorities when there are tradeoffs, clearly requires political decisions, which should not be made by unelected officials alone.
While G20 leaders have already given a nod to some of these reforms, a far wider range of officials, regulators, and investors, across many local, national, and regional jurisdictions, must do the difficult work to deliver results.
In December, US officials, seeking to better their understanding of North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs – and enable commanders to react swiftly if potential threats materialize – announced a new information-sharing agreement with South Korea and Japan.
Other Chinese officials have picked up the theme, dropping hints that China’s 70th anniversary celebration of the end of World War II could exclude Japan – unless, that is, Japan is more contrite about its historic transgressions.
They arguably add little to three prior sanction resolutions that ban the export of nuclear and ballistic-missile technology and conventional arms, and that freeze the assets and travel of a handful of Iranian officials.
Although the scandal broke last year, allegations and evidence have more recently been mounting against senior officials of the traditional political parties, as well as prominent businessmen.
That order did allow powerful forces, at times beyond the control of elected officials and policymakers, to shape national economies.
Italian government officials speak openly about the need for “political synchronization” with Berlin.
Even more disturbing, on the second day of the trial, the Chinese police formally arrested Xu Zhiyong, a human-rights lawyer who was leading a campaign to force mandatory disclosure of the wealth of senior officials and their family members.
He could have groveled his way through the trial, like other senior Party officials brought down by corruption scandals, and as most defendants have done in the long grim history of communist show trials beginning with Stalin.
Sanusi’s crusade began with allegations that major government bodies were staffed by corrupt and incompetent officials.
He raised the stakes last September, when he wrote a letter to Jonathan accusing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to remit $49.8 billion to government coffers – a scheme in which several senior government officials were complicit.
Newspaper editorials and outraged citizens called for a probe of the NNPC and demanded accountability for the officials involved.
Upon his return to Nigeria, security officials seized his passport and detained him briefly.
I have asked Chinese friends and officials why China follows such a counterproductive strategy.
In 2009-2010, some mid-ranking officials and commentators even referred to the South China Sea as a sovereign “core interest” like Taiwan or Tibet.
Top Chinese officials have recently begun to call for the People’s Bank of China to cut interest rates and lower reserve requirements.
Most of these protests stem from acts by local officials that were already clearly illegal under existing Chinese law.
The real problem is to make officials respect legality.
In Latin America, Chinese officials have forecast $250 billion in new infrastructure deals.
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