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A few years ago, their speaker occupied important positions within US diplomacy; he is now a key figure of the New York establishment.
Fortunately, Trump has backed away from many of his more aggressive positions on trade.
Such a policy is fraught with danger; indeed, it is inherently self-defeating, as the establishment of a peg or a band provides an obvious target against which speculators can take huge positions.
The new complex mechanisms for economic-policy coordination that dominate the European Union’s agenda might be useful in pushing eurozone member countries to adopt more sensible policies to increase their economies’ competitiveness and strengthen their fiscal positions.
Moreover, Abbas has not given up his positions as head of the PLO and leader of its biggest faction, Fatah, which remains in control in the West Bank.
This is why in most accession countries last year, central banks and governments stepped up co-operation on defining joint positions on adopting the euro.
Both sides are deeply committed to their positions.
While Xi will work to build a strong power base by gradually appointing his supporters to key positions, he needs the PLA to defend his political authority in the interim.
Trump’s Foreign Policy ReversalsCAMBRIDGE – During his first 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump reversed many of the major positions on defense and trade policy that he had advocated during his presidential campaign.
I don’t know why President Trump has shifted to positions so different from those he advocated during the campaign.
Have his cabinet-level officials persuaded him that his earlier positions were wrong?
NATO is trying to square the circle of defense, deterrence, and arms control, but, thus far, its members’ conflicting positions on the role of nuclear weapons have not been reconciled.
For starters, the highest-status positions require the most prestigious educational background – and that costs money.
One solution that will be on the agenda is the UNDP-supported Gender Equality Seal program, a unique initiative that certifies companies that have eliminated pay gaps, increased the number of women in decision-making positions, and worked to end sexual harassment on the job.
Foreign-born populations have been shown to strengthen the fiscal positions of several destination countries.
In China, competitive elections simply help the Party to single out loyal officials for important positions, and exclusive elections are part of the Party’s complicated selection system based on political reliability.
“Turning back the boats,” the “Pacific solution” of offshore processing in neighboring Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG), and draconian conditions for those who are allowed to stay pending status determination were – and are – popular positions for Australia’s conservative parties to take.
While some Shia who were prominent allies of the Baathist regime hold positions of great influence in the “new” Iraq, Sunnis will never know when they will be shut out of the process, especially if they become too powerful.
If, as occurred after the last elections, months go by without the formation of a government, this will be confirmation that Iraq’s political elites will continue to subordinate the desperate needs of the country – for security, electricity, water, and basic services – to their political futures as they haggle over positions.
If they dissented from US positions, this did not seriously impair the West’s strategic efficacy because American power was more than sufficient to compensate.
European leaders, even when they are unhappy over US positions, therefore need to combine forceful support for the transatlantic community of interests with discrete, if firm lobbying in Washington not to strain it to the breaking point.
And because China has been willing, for its own reasons, to finance the US deficit, the dollar and the renminbi now seem to be locked into misaligned positions.
On the other hand long-term interest rates in countries with stronger fiscal positions – France, Germany, and Finland – have enjoyed low rates as a consequence of a “flight to quality.”
This rise in long-term interest rates has hit the countries with sharply deteriorating fiscal positions hardest.
To see why, recall that the immediate trigger for rising interest-rate spreads was financial markets’ growing concerns about the solidity of some euro-zone countries, owing to dramatic deterioration in their current and expected fiscal positions.
Empowering China’s New Miracle WorkersMILAN – As the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress has unfolded, much of the focus has been on who will occupy the key positions in President Xi Jinping’s administration for the next five years.
These “sudden stops,” as the economists Guillermo Calvo and Carmen Reinhart call them, raised risk premiums and weakened the affected countries’ fiscal positions, which in turn increased risk, and so on, creating the vicious downward spiral that characterizes self-reinforcing crises.
Both leaders exhibited utter indifference to the other’s core concerns, and catered to their constituencies, Hamas and Israeli settlers included, making it clear, urbi et orbi, that the gaps separating their positions are as unbridgeable as ever.
But a reassessment is needed if ASEAN is to speak with a strong voice on regional matters, rather than allowing dissenting voices within the group to prevent the adoption of collective positions.
In addition, because these firms derive their power from information, their positions are enhanced by their ability to use their customers’ private information as a strategic asset.
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