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A Growth Agenda for ChinaMILAN/BEIJING – At a time when the United States is poised to turn inward, China’s economic performance is more important globally than ever.
With public perception a crucial factor in winning the war, and the Taliban poised to launch a large military initiative next spring, failure to adopt a successful local strategy could signify the last chance the international community will have to build a secure and stable Afghanistan.
And now they are poised to do so again.
In fact, the highest level that China’s annual surplus has ever reached was around $400 billion in 2007-2008 – when the US was poised to introduce trade sanctions against the country, because it viewed this imbalance as a threat to the stability of the US and the world economy.
Just as Putin’s gross mismanagement of the economy has led even the economics minister to predict stagnation for the rest of this decade, his geopolitical nostalgia is poised to saddle Russians with the same dysfunctional empire that impoverished them under the Soviets.
Europe's InvisiblesIn a historic turnabout, the new German government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is poised to offer citizenship to four million of its foreign (mostly Turkish) residents.
Musharraf and the Jihad IndustryGeneral Pervez Musharraf is poised to rule Pakistan for another five years.
France’s Extraordinary ElectionPARIS – Sixty years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome, France is poised to hold an election that could make or break the European Union.
And the international community seems poised to forge critical agreements on sustainable development and the fight against climate change.
Are nationalism and protectionism poised to overwhelm globalization and competition?
Children of FrenchmenOne puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.
An emerging economy poised to become a regional power, it has exchanged fire with its neighbor to the south, Syria, and has called on its NATO allies to bolster its security.
And Uganda is poised to start exporting rice within East Africa and beyond.
Transparency for TunaPALIKIR/SAN FRANCISCO – A cluster of small Pacific islands is poised to make history in the management of global fish stocks.
Not only have policymakers in the eurozone insisted on repeating the blunders of the 1930s; they are poised to repeat them in a more brutal, more exaggerated, and more extended fashion.
Remaking the Middle EastPresident Bush, Palestinian Premier Mazen, and Israel's Prime Minister Sharon are poised to meet.
Economics is poised to change, but how is not yet clear.
They are a restless breed, flitting round the world’s trouble spots, pen and camera poised.
The Return of the NewspaperBANGKOK – Social media are no longer the new kid on the block, but in 2016, platforms like Twitter and Facebook looked poised to nudge traditional newspapers into obsolescence.
But, with Asia poised to be the biggest consumer market in history, US exporters – the greatest potential beneficiaries – will need open trade more than ever.
Instead, Lula has governed with remarkable prudence, and Brazil is poised for rapid growth.
Rather, the world is poised between two models of integration: one is multilateral and internationalist; the other is bilateral and imperialist.
“Market pressures …appear poised to stabilize and over the longer run possibly to decrease the US current-account deficit and its attendant financing requirements,” he said.
Now, instead of waiting for Maliki to act, US forces appear poised to do the job themselves.
The Dangers of Premature EuroizationThirteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the postcommunist countries of Central and Eastern Europe stand poised to join the EU, uniting Europe at last.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the country’s GDP is poised to contract by more than 7% in 2015-2016.
On the contrary, they are poised to confront a massive youth bulge, with more than 100 million people under the age of 30 entering the domestic job market in North Africa between now and 2025.
The region is poised to become one of the main suppliers of oil and gas for world energy markets, and its big rivers, if properly managed, have the capacity to provide enough water both for irrigation and for electricity exports to China, India, and Russia.
In the eyes of Western (including Japanese) political leaders, it has never amounted to more than a small, fringe country whose economic failings made it appear to be poised perpetually on the edge of self-destruction.
For starters, Asia’s powers have recently elected or are poised to elect leaders who are more nationalistic than their predecessors.
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