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The American and British governments, increasingly unpopular at home, desperately needed some tangible evidence of progress to assuage their domestic critics and to begin to speak openly of an exit strategy.
Fortunately, openly anti-European political programs are not the norm, at least not yet.
After the Federal Open Market Committee decided in September to defer yet again the start of its long-awaited normalization of monetary policy, its inflation doves are openly campaigning for another delay.
Add to that the destabilizing effects of Brexit and a US president who is openly hostile toward the EU (and supportive of Brexit and Le Pen), and the stakes of the upcoming elections become starkly apparent.
Most of all, it is time to recognize that we cannot improve the lives of the poorest and most marginalized women and girls until the impact of child marriage is addressed directly and openly – and unless we make a commitment to ending it.
Indeed, Chinese leaders claim the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea as “core” national interests and openly express displeasure at the presence of US naval forces in these waters.
Citizens want powers to be clearly defined and decisions to be taken openly in a way that they can understand.
It believes only in repression and says so openly.
The Kremlin was almost certainly behind the cyber attack against Macron’s campaign in the final hours of the election, and it was openly supportive of his opponent, the far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen.
This provides a refreshing and necessary contrast to the Republican Party, which has remade itself in the image of its leader: angry, white, and often openly racist.
A blunt question is now being asked frequently and openly: “Is this India’s Tahrir Square?”
No country will talk openly about its military capacity in anything but the broadest terms.
Russia today openly lays claim to a sphere of interest in its borderlands – in direct contradiction to commitments made under the Helsinki process.
It is time for the West to openly debate what its strategy is – and what it is not.
Tung was handpicked by former Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 1996 and was openly endorsed by Jiang for a second term in 2002.
Moreover, conservatives who had aligned themselves with Ahmedinejad are now criticizing him openly.
If the EU were to snub Turkey openly over membership, or if America were to seem too lax on the Kurdish problem in Northern Iraq, a huge swathe of the two camps could well unite.
Today, by contrast, their heirs are openly criticizing the Asian capitalist model.
The UN has very little power to influence the Syrian government’s humanitarian-aid strategy, and if it openly defies the regime, it could lose permission to operate in the country at all.
Major General Wang Zaixi, Deputy Director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, warned of the use of force if Taiwanese authorities "collude with separatist forces to openly engage in pro-independence activities and challenge the mainland and the one-China principle."
Moreover, China does not wish to deepen the concerns that it aroused in Asia last year by openly discarding Deng Xiaoping’s dictum, tao guang yang hui (“conceal ambitions and hide claws”).
If not openly committed to opposing Western values and interests, China’s interests in cowing Taiwan and in asserting regional hegemony across Asia certainly are not those of Europe and the West, not to mention Japan, India, and the rest of Asia.
Openly racist ideas prevailed in Germany and the American South, and much of the world’s population lived in colonies ruled by European powers.
Today, despite what happened in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia – and appeared to be on the verge of happening after the recent disputed election in Kenya – no country openly accepts racist doctrines.
In Spain, the People’s Party (PP) has become openly nationalist under the leadership of the hardline Pablo Casado.
Fear of “China bashing” has made it difficult for so-called “friends of China” to discuss its darker side openly.
What if Trump openly defied a court decision and ordered civil servants to act in violation of it?
This outcome would become even more likely if Americans elect Trump, who openly admires Russian President Vladimir Putin and would accommodate Russian great-power politics at the expense of European and transatlantic ties.
The working relationship is important and should not be condemned, but it must be recognized openly.
Moreover, Ahmadinejad openly advocates Iran’s crash program to obtain nuclear weapons.
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