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It opened its markets and laid the foundations for globalization and the information revolution, kept sea-lanes open for international trade, and catalyzed the Green Revolution… The list goes on.
Resilient ChinaBEIJING – Today’s financial crisis and looming global recession are challenging China’s export-driven economic model as never before in the 30 years since Deng Xiaoping opened the economy.
To ward off an offensive by German (and other) monetary hawks, who maintain that the ECB has opened the door to debt monetization, the Bank is bound to err on the side of orthodoxy in the coming months.
With that in mind, he has declared that no more indigenous reserves will be demarcated, and existing reserves will be opened up to mining.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, which opened the floodgates for political contributions by corporations, should be reversed.
This position also opened another front in the Church's battle with Eastern European Orthodox Christianity, which lent theological support to vampire myths by teaching that non-decomposed bodies could not go to heaven and could be revivified by the devil.
The Sarkozy OptionPARIS – From the Caucasus in August 2008 to the Middle East in January 2009, is France under President Nicolas Sarkozy attempting to incarnate what might be called “the West by default,” making maximum use of the window of opportunity opened by America’s presidential transition?
Some of these, based on newly opened archival material, are critical.
The European Commission also opened up the market for corporate control by vetoing the barriers against hostile takeovers that most EU governments had erected.
The better news is that a way forward has opened up.
After China opened up its economy and Russia emerged from the Soviet Union, bilateral relations entered a new stage.
Fearing that the system was fragile, the government opened its coffers in 1787, bailing out private investors who had lost in an immense speculative scheme to corner shares in a reorganized East India Company.
The US had argued for years that the renminbi should be included in the SDR only if China opened its capital account, let its currency float freely, and had a more independent central bank.
Because Bush was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, the way was opened for more environmentally friendly policies.
Jewish kindergartens and other schools are full, and five new Jewish universities have opened.
A renaissance of Jewish culture is now occurring: many new synagogues have opened; and a majority of the faculty and students in Judaic studies courses are Gentiles.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened that discussion in a Munich beer hall during her election campaign last year.
China opened itself to the world in 1978, when Xi and his contemporaries were young men eager to understand the world outside China.
Military rule and putsches stemming from factional infighting among generals were the norm until the early 1970’s, when university students overthrew a military dictatorship and opened up democratic space.
I have not opened my bottle of spumante yet.
His odyssey began on June 4, 1989, when he spent a horrific night trying to save hundreds of wounded and dying victims who flooded through his hospital's eighteen operating rooms as the People's Liberation Army opened fire on its way to Tiananmen Square.
Legal channels of migration should be opened for those who either deserve protection under international law or possess skills that could benefit European societies.
Now the accession negotiations have started, and 35 “chapters” – covering everything from agriculture to energy, competition, environment, employment, social policy, and beyond – must be opened.
We have already opened 19 chapters – fewer than we would like.
With Africa’s current market of one billion people set to swell to three billion by 2045 – including 1.1 billion people of working age (more than in China or India) – its long-term economic and commercial prospects are reminiscent of China’s when it opened up more than three decades ago.
That opened the way for China to claim Arunachal Pradesh (three times the size of Taiwan) as “South Tibet” and reinforced China’s view of territorial issues: Whatever area it occupies is Chinese territory, and whatever territorial claims it makes must be settled on the basis of “mutual accommodation and understanding.”
When the L&M Railway eventually opened in 1830, it was a revolutionary success, kickstarting the age of steam and changing the world in ways that could not have been foreseen.
For example, Sri Lanka’s Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, which opened in 2013 near Hambantota, has been dubbed the world’s emptiest.
Saudi Arabia, fearing that any role for Iraq in determining regional security would diminish Saudi political and military dominance among the Gulf countries, has still not opened an embassy in Baghdad.
With that in mind, Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, recently held a summit that opened the way for a military logistics pact that would give each country’s armed forces access to the other’s bases.
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