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On the seventh day of “the week that changed the world,” as Nixon called it, he and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed the “Shanghai Communiqué,” which began the normalization of bilateral relations and bound the United States, a
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supporter of Taiwan, to the People’s Republic’s doctrine of “One China.”
China usually holds US Treasuries to maturity and re-invests the
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and proceeds.
Whereas many regard Israel’s toughness as its
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characteristic, India’s own citizens view it as a soft state, its underbelly easily penetrated by determined terrorists.
Moreover, whereas Israel’s
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adversary is currently Hamas, India faces a slew of terrorist organizations – Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and more.
Orchestrated by Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan, the
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architect of the spectacular Pudong development project in Shanghai, the goal is to transform the Liangjiang area of Chongqing into China’s first inland urban development zone.
But the Education Commission’s two
principal
recommendations are wrongheaded, and should be replaced by two other solutions.
The
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problem with this approach is that the World Bank has no business spearheading education reform.
The book includes a chapter by prominent climate economist Richard Tol, who has been a contributing, lead, principal, and convening author for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But Al Qaeda is no longer a serious factor in the Afghan war, where the
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combatants are now the American military and the Taliban, with its associated militias and private armies.
But if the US administration’s
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war target is not the Taliban but Al Qaeda remnants, why use a troop-intensive strategy based on protecting population centers to win grassroots support?
His
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challenger, Rick Santorum, told NBC News that he would “order air strikes” if it “became clear that [Iran] was going to get nuclear weapons.”
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America’s
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welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.
The Zionist Union, the
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opponent of Netanyahu’s Likud party, focused mostly on domestic issues like housing, the high cost of living, and growing economic inequality.
That was because France and Germany, the
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protagonists in the drama of monetary integration, had different visions of how the problem should be solved.
Indeed, agriculture is also a leading cause of biodiversity loss –& and thus loss of ecosystem services supplied to farming and other human enterprises – as well as a
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source of global toxification.
Asia was one of the two
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theaters of World War II, and again shared centrality with Europe during the Cold War.
As Edgar L. Smith wrote in The Atlantic Monthly back in 1924, when the
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risks are macroeconomic, bonds are no safer than diversified portfolios of stocks – in fact, they are riskier.
The
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mistake that Reinhart and Rogoff made in their analysis – indeed, the only significant mistake – was their use of the word “threshold.”
Rather, the
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energy consumer in Europe is individual households, where energy efficiency can be tripled in the coming years with the right political leadership, sufficient investment, and long-term commitment from Europeans themselves.
The United States-led military intervention resulted in the weakening of the Middle East’s Sunni regimes, America’s traditional allies, and the strengthening of America’s
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foe in the region, the Islamic Republic.
That idea captured the imagination of much of the elite of the developed world over the course of the 1990’s, and provided the moral rationale for the
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Western military interventions of the post-Cold War period, from Bosnia to Iraq.
But the heady glow of America’s return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region’s
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security anchor in the face of China’s strategic ambitions.
An agreement of this nature could be the new Kyoto treaty for the world – the
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difference being that this protocol would actually make a difference and stand a good chance of global acceptance.
Tellingly, Kerry appointed Martin Indyk – a British-born Australian citizen, who began his political career in the US working for AIPAC in the early 1980s – as the
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US facilitator.
Its eight or nine
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nations made war on each other whenever one threatened to seek and secure mastery over the others.
Iraq and Iran used to be India’s
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oil suppliers.
Interest and
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payments made by many poor countries were, as a result of this, much smaller than what was actually owed.
The children of Mao’s senior cadres who enjoyed the greatest fame during the Cultural Revolution are now the
principal
beneficiaries of today’s economic reforms.
In fact, it has been suggested that a
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purpose of reviving the NRC process has been to strip as many Bengali Muslims as possible of the right to vote ahead of the next general election.
But Egypt – with its strategic location, stable borders, large population, and ancient history – has been the
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power of the Arab world for centuries, defining the movement of history there like no other.
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