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The use of hormone blocking agents to delay puberty seems a reasonable option, as it offers both parents and children more time to make up their minds about this life-changing decision.
But this option is not available to Asia’s other leading economies – Japan, India, and South Korea – which are not contiguous with suppliers in Central Asia, Iran, or Russia.
“Giving confidence” to this sort of customer requires the capacity to provide quick, automatic, meaningful, and front-loaded financial support; otherwise, accumulating reserves and pooling them in regional agreements will still look like a more reliable option.
One obvious option, which Democrats largely seem to be taking, is to reject Trump and everything his administration stands for.
Another option, however unappealing at first glance, is to accept the Trump administration.
Ground troops ultimately proved unnecessary, but failure was not an option.
Nor can it be an option today.
They may, therefore, like to consider another option: discouraging tree-felling only in those areas that have high recent rates of deforestation.
Unless the EU changes course and increases its production of alternative energy – including biofuels, an option the EU has long neglected – some 95% of its oil will come from foreign sources by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.
The other option is simply to prioritize eradication of malaria today.
But now a third option has emerged: negotiating a ceiling on the nuclear program that would not be too low for Iran’s government and not too high for the United States, Israel, and the rest of the world.
In fact, such an option has been around for years – and in several rounds of negotiations.
Of course, unlike the UK and France, Japan does not have the option to possess nuclear weapons.
But there is another option, which many have ignored: a CDU-led minority government, with Merkel as chancellor.
One option is to pander to Trump.
Another option is to find a new savior – perhaps a country like China, which not only is America’s closest analogue, in terms of economic impact, but also has attracted substantial attention lately, owing to its president’s robust defense of globalization.
The third option – and the only viable one for the EU – is self-reliance and self-determination.
Pursuing this option implies that the EU should push for progress in trade talks with Japan, negotiate an investment agreement with China, modernize the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and position itself as a world leader on tax reform.
And 13 states already offer a public-financing option for candidates running for state office, with many more poised to follow suit in response to grassroots pressure.
Military capability is also needed to meet the global responsibility to protect citizens at risk of genocide and other mass-atrocity crimes if no lesser option is available and if intervening will do more good than harm, as would have been the case in Rwanda in 1994.
Our histories of oppression by powerful neighbours told us that collective security within NATO was the only real option.
Whether this is enough common ground for a constructive dialogue with Iran on ending Syria’s civil war remains to be seen, but it is an option that must be pursued.
Simply paying lip service to change, while clinging to outdated modes of working, is not an option.
In the euro’s initial years, Germany had no option but to reduce worker protections, limit wage increases, and reduce pensions as it tried to increase employment.
And one option stands out: online learning.
In the US, households have a prepayment option on their mortgages should interest rates fall.
One option would be to try to preserve – or, more accurately, restore – the Sykes-Picot Middle East.
A second option would be to try to negotiate the terms of a new Middle East, a successor to Sykes-Picot.
All of this leads to a third option: Acceptance of the fact that for the foreseeable future the Middle East will not resemble what appears on maps and globes.
On the other hand, the incentives for success are not great; the years of sacrifice and effort it takes to become a world-class athlete are simply not a realistic option to an Indian who needs to make a living, and sponsors are few and far between (and they are all spending their sponsorship money on cricket).
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