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On the contrary, since building railways to Tibet – the first was completed in 2006, with an extension opened in 2014 – China’s efforts have gone into overdrive.
Governments opened formal negotiations last November, and are aiming to reach agreement by the end of this year.
Nixon, a vitriolic anti-Communist, opened relations with Mao’s China and started détente with the Soviet Union.
In fact, official documents have now even started questioning the legitimacy of the privatization of the leading Russian companies in the 1990’s, which has opened the way for discussions about revising the outcomes of these privatizations.
(If the TTIP was opened to other economies – such as Turkey, Mexico, and Canada – the benefits would be even greater.)
Argentina's economy opened up significantly in recent years, notwithstanding a strong exchange rate, which made exporting difficult.
Gorbachev's actions did not create any reliable floodgates; they merely opened cracks in the decrepit structures of power.
In the late 1990’s, the Bank achieved almost universal membership, and, confronted with the disappearance of communism, began an intense process of self-reflection, which opened the way to interesting new fields of operations, such as governance and anti-corruption.
The Seoul Games in 1988 opened the door to South Korea’s democratization.
The business sector remains unaffected and continues to talk optimistically of the prospects opened up by closer integration with the mainland.
It was the transformation brought about by perestroika and glasnost that set the stage for the quantum leap to freedom for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and opened the way for the democratic revolution that saved history.
As a result, a left-right divide has opened in this central area of French diplomacy – a division that has not been seen in France for four decades.
In short, the re-election of the Singh government has made the world a less dangerous place and has opened up many political opportunities.
Her relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the way to ending the Cold War; her privatization policies showed the world how to dismantle state socialism.
As then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan rightly argued, this opened the door to the proliferation of unilateral, lawless use of force.
Thus, an unexpected window of opportunity has opened for the Kurds to achieve full independence, though their dependence on good relations with both Turkey and Iran for access to global markets will moderate their political ambitions.
Moreover, with its invasion of Iraq, the US opened the door to regional hegemony for Iran and initiated a dramatic shift in its own regional alliances, the long-term effects of which – including the current nuclear negotiations with the Iranian government – are now becoming apparent.
But India’s democracy has opened new pathways to empowerment for its underclasses.
More Tibetan deaths were reported, with China admitting that in some of these instances its security forces had opened fire “in self-defense.”
These countries have opened their markets to foreign investors - and foreign investors are responding eagerly.
The collapse of the USSR and the Communist Party opened new horizons – and almost all archives – for historians.
If a window of opportunity has opened, the West should do everything possible to take advantage of it.
Technology has eliminated diseases like smallpox and has all but eradicated other, like polio; enabled space exploration; sped up transportation; and opened new vistas of opportunity for finance, entertainment, and much else.
China exports far more to the US than it imports, contributing to the disappearance of millions of American jobs, and has not opened up its market as expected or delivered on promised reforms.
If a phone has a backdoor, it can be opened by anyone with enough motivation – criminals, extremists, and governments alike.
For example, Hamas has taken a position in favor of the Syrian opposition by emphasizing its ties with the Muslim Brothers, and gave its support last year to Egypt’s transitional government after it permanently opened the frontier with Gaza.
And, indeed, the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which opened national borders within the new European Economic Community, enabled the rapid proliferation of intra-European trade, thereby contributing to a shared economic recovery.
When the market opened again, the new drachma would depreciate by 30-40% before finding an equilibrium.
To fulfill this commitment and benefit from the window of opportunity that the recent election opened, my government is prepared to leave no stone unturned in seeking a mutually acceptable permanent solution.
Primarily, it opened North Korea to South Korea and the world.
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