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He was even the first Chinese leader to wear a suit and tie rather than a Mao habit when traveling abroad, as well as the first to hold an open press conference.
An independent and vigorous press that checks the truth is crucial to preserving the integrity of democracy; but so is an electorate that resists cynicism and the debasement of political discourse.
Equally important, but largely unknown, is the fact that the Banca d’Italia has resorted to the printing press to cover Italy’s gigantic balance of payments deficit.
Italy was stable and did not seem to need the printing press to solve its financial problems.
They, in turn, will continue to compensate for capital flight by cranking up the money-printing press.
But the countries that adopted the euro can no longer rely on the printing press.
All of it – the constant scrutiny, the bad press, the tarnished reputation – will hit their long-term stock prices.
It was because Shi’ite religious leadership felt empowered, optimistic, and secure enough to press the Sadrists to end their revolt.
Sleepwalking through America’s Unemployment CrisisNEWPORT BEACH – It was relegated to the Q&A session, rather than featured prominently in the opening statement, at last week’s first-ever press conference of US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke.
With the exception of two tabloids, coverage by the establishment press of his “Rivers of Blood” speech ranged from skeptical to outright hostile.
And the establishment press was all there was.
When the bubble burst, the ECB tried to prevent the excessive prices from returning to their equilibrium levels by using its printing press and promising unlimited coverage to investors.
While the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual-assault charges now seems highly uncertain, the ensuing press focus on the IMF suggests an uncontrolled international bureaucracy with unlimited expense accounts, dominated by men with little sense of restraint.
Top IMF staff face strict limits on their allowable business expenses (no $3,000 per night hotel rooms, despite reports in the press), and are generally underpaid relative to private-sector executives with similar skills and experience.
Leave aside governors (the BJP asked all to resign to make way for political appointees soon after its 2014 election victory) and start with the judicial system, which has come under scrutiny since January, when the Supreme Court’s four most senior judges held an unprecedented press conference to question Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s allocation of cases.
Such behavior is being facilitated by an assault on a final critical institution: the free press, which now seems largely to have been cowed by the government’s overweening power, not to mention its explicit intimidation and co-opting of mainstream outlets.
Whether the victims of exploitation are garment workers, mountain guides, or employed in myriad other corners of the global economy, they typically lack the resources to press successfully for meaningful change on their own.
The overseas press corps in Beijing was used to explaining political dissidents, student protesters, disgruntled workers and disenfranchised members of the “floating population.”
Even the opening to Myanmar was briefed to the press as a move designed to counter Chinese influence in that resource-rich country.
If it were, his new press secretary would not be describing himself as “dopey.”
Will you press for Europe and America to eliminate their agricultural subsidies?
We have had some recent experience of this in Romania, where the regime of ex-communists, led by former president Ion Illiescu, was often criticized by the democratic opposition and the press for relying on “rule by decree,” not parliamentary voting.
Opposition parties, the press, even some government supporters were outraged.
The press and government, mindful of the requirements of EU membership, are finally opening the sensitive Armenian issue to debate.
The Bo family, press reports allege, not only has amassed a huge fortune, but also was involved in the murder of a Westerner who had served as the family’s chief private conduit to the outside world.
On the contrary, the accumulation of wealth in the Chinese government’s hands should enhance its ability to press ahead with reform.
What did Trump get from the Europeans, other than a return to a trade negotiation straight out of the Obama era?Trump claimed, at the press conference and subsequently, that he won a pledge from Juncker to buy more natural gas and “a lot of soybeans.”
In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press launched the era of mass communication.
Yet that sequence is the opposite of what one might have expected: only after financial markets developed did those with a stake in them press for better legislation to protect investors.
And, as it stands, there is no reason to believe that the advent of social media, satellite television coverage, or a more intrusive press will change that fundamental reality.
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