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Meanwhile, senior Chinese officials have taken to enforcing political discipline within the Chinese Communist Party.
Any conversation with Chinese officials nowadays leads to the same conclusion: China wants to restart the Six-Party Talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear-weapons program.
Chinese officials, who are committed, above all, to maintaining order at home, must lose sleep asking themselves what an implosion of North Korea’s Communist party-state would mean for them.
Many Chinese officials don’t want to find out.
In April, the United States Navy announced an experimental program called LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology), which officials promise will “autonomously overwhelm an adversary” and thus “provide Sailors and Marines a decisive tactical advantage.”
One critic, a Russian businessman named Valery Morozov, claims that officials in Putin’s own office demanded payoffs for contracts.
These senior officials are henceforth to be selected “through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.”
For example, public officials can use mobile applications to tag and respond to citizen complaints about the delivery of water and sanitation services, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability.
And French national-security officials, who refuse to budge on non-proliferation, have clashed with those who claim that a nuclear-armed Iran could enhance regional stability by counterbalancing Israel, the Middle East’s sole nuclear power.
Officials undertaking vulnerability assessments at Moria are left asking not whether someone has been raped, but how brutally and how often.
At the same time, US officials deny that their country’s missile-defense programs are directed against Russia or China, but refuse to offer a legally binding guarantee.
Since then, Chinese officials have insisted that they do not belong in US-Russian strategic-arms talks, because the two countries’ nuclear arsenals dwarf theirs.
An international elite of Olympic officials arose, living in a self-contained bubble of wealth and privilege.
As a result, developers, architects, politicians, tycoons, and international sporting officials are now in charge of the beautiful game.
Given this situation, is it actually realistic to expect politicians and government officials to work hard to protect foreigners’ rights in face of the needs of their fellow citizens?
Will the 7.5% objective set for 2013 be maintained next year, as a recent leak from senior Chinese officials seems to indicate, or do the recent pronouncements indicate further deceleration toward 7%?
The threat by US officials to cut off aid to Ecuador, which would amount to a measly $12 million in 2014, further evinces a clumsy approach.
While Palestinians travel the world soliciting votes, Israeli officials are engaged in last-minute efforts to dissuade countries from supporting what they perceive as Palestinian unilateralism.
In other words, senior government officials do not always know what is occurring at the operational level – or understand how provocative or misleading it may be.
Although recent officials US statements have been directed primarily at China and Russia, they have motivated governments worldwide to build their own offensive cyber capabilities.
Criminal indictments for war crimes ought to be issued against specific officials who do not comply.
On some occasions, news outlets were even forced to print or air lengthy dissenting statements from government officials who disliked their treatment in the media.
According to Ecuadorian journalists, government officials often refuse to speak to reporters because they know that, should a story about them appear, they can simply force the outlet to publish a long, unedited statement of their own.
Government officials routinely find “ordinary citizens” to file complaints against media organizations on their behalf.
This year, the public-sector budget might move from a small deficit to what German officials call a “black zero” – a very small surplus.
Here, the two US government officials best equipped to lead are Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke.
As Indian government officials reminded their peers during a World Trade Organization meeting earlier this year, meaningful agricultural reforms can begin only when rich countries reduce the “disproportionately large” subsidies they give their own farmers.
Even Russian officials speak approvingly of modern slavery.
The South African bill’s proponents argue that it will replace the country’s obsolete, apartheid-era espionage law, and that it will allow officials to classify certain kinds of information as “secret” in order to combat national-security threats.
At the event, which I attended, 30 politicians, senior officials, and experts from Europe, the US, and Iran considered the relationship’s future, producing some important insights that should inform future policy decisions.
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