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The Chimera of Currency ManipulationCAMBRIDGE – US President Barack Obama is still pressing to obtain Trade Promotion Authority and use it to conclude negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union.
Nonetheless, the US-Russia relationship has always been compartmentalized, and there are pressing multilateral issues on which the US must work with Russia, particularly Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan (where the US will withdraw its troops this year).
The bottom line is that there are bigger, more pressing problems to address.
In Brussels the other day, Premier Wen Jiabao scolded European leaders for pressing for the renminbi’s revaluation.
Data localization requirements and protectionism are on the rise, and data privacy and cyber-security are pressing concerns.
Concerns over nanomaterials’ possible effects on health and the environment have perhaps overshadowed the pressing need to ensure that their production is clean and environmentally benign.
Rather, Singapore’s leaders have consistently emphasized that the need to ensure that the most capable people are in charge is particularly pressing in a tiny city-state with a small population, limited resource base, and potentially hostile neighbors.
Trump’s suspicion of multilateral institutions – and his unwillingness to absorb the costs of persuasion, side payments, and organization that centralized leadership demands – makes that shift all the more pressing.
But the more pressing question that this anniversary raises has less to do with historical analysis than it does with current policy.
Researchers and civil-society organizations have been calling for a reversal of soil degradation by 2020, and are pressing for at least one international panel of experts to meet at the UN to address this central aspect of global food security.
First, unlike health care, where we can afford to proceed incrementally, the need for comprehensive financial reform is pressing.
Those divisions are now history, and American reservations about a European security pillar cannot trump America’s pressing needs for allied support.
The United States is pressing for administrative reforms and threatening to cut off funding if the reforms are not forthcoming.
The Obama administration had been pressing Abe not to aggravate regional tensions by visiting Yasukuni – an entreaty reiterated by Vice President Joe Biden during a recent stopover in Tokyo on his way to Beijing.
The report concludes that a $3.6 trillion investment (roughly one-fifth of the country’s annual GDP) will be needed by 2020 to boost the quality of US infrastructure by addressing the “significant backlog of overdue maintenance [and the] pressing need for modernization.”
Annan is also pressing for a more effective and credible international machinery for defending human rights.
So, have the terrorists succeeded in getting the developed world to invest poorly in counterterrorism, while ignoring more pressing problems involving health, the environment, conflict, and governance?
India’s government has been pressing China for transparency, greater hydrological data-sharing, and a commitment not to redirect the natural flow of any river or diminish cross-border water flows.
The Cancer Threat to Africa’s FutureCHICAGO – One of the most pressing public-health challenges in Africa today is also one of the least reported: cancer, a leading cause of death worldwide.
Political survival is one reason: when in a minority, the option of pressing for an Islamic state, with all its undemocratic potential is closed.
That remains to be seen, but there have been reports that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dissatisfied that Canadian scientists are not being sufficiently aggressive in pressing the country’s case.
But, given the pressing housing and infrastructure shortfalls around the world, this is no longer sustainable.
Moreover, Morsi urged Iran to join Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia – all Sunni-majority countries – in pressing for political transition in Syria (a role that the Syrian opposition rejected before Iran could even say no).
France’s decision to abandon military conscription in 1996 while pressing ahead on nuclear testing did little to improve the relationship.
The question now is whether Saudi Arabia’s new leadership can cope with all of the pressing challenges in its near abroad.
Proper governance in international waters is more difficult to achieve, but is equally pressing.
A more sensible approach is to balance America’s real and pressing security needs in Afghanistan with a more wholesome policy in Central Asia.
In the long term, today’s other pressing challenges – including Russia’s relationship with the West and events in the tumultuous Middle East – will amount almost to sideshows by comparison.
Of course, Prodi could preserve a bipolar political system – and thus increase the longevity of his government – by either restoring a majoritarian electoral system or pressing ahead with other constitutional amendments designed to preserve government and coalition stability.
With public opinion in Britain and Sweden pressing against further integration with the Franco-German core, a new model of European development may emerge.
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