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In keeping with its commitment to the 2º C cap on the rise in global temperature, CELAC not only supports a legally binding agreement, but also calls for wealthy countries to meet their promises to provide developing countries with $100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020.
But if Trump sticks to his protectionist promises, we will no longer have to worry about US-Brazil rivalry within the same trade agreement.
Indeed, reforms announced by Blair increasingly sound like empty promises, because the apparently inevitable has happened: the Prime Minister has lost touch with the public.
This flight fuels a broader sense of fear and uncertainty among everyone from investors to employees, which is reinforced as it becomes apparent that the CEO isn’t fulfilling promises made during the interview process.
Whether or not Copenhagen is declared a political victory, that inescapable fact of economic life will once again prevail – and grand promises will once again go unfulfilled.
Such statements ignore the fact that most of these promises are almost entirely empty.
Instead of papering over the flaws in the Kyoto approach and pretending that grand promises translate into real action, we need to acknowledge that saving the world requires a smarter strategy than the one being pursued so dogmatically in Copenhagen.
If Trump really did keep his campaign promises to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose tariffs on many Chinese imports, he could tip the world economy from subpar growth to outright depression.
But free trade also promises few benefits now and huge benefits in the future.
With symbolic concessions – such as an agreement to import US-produced liquefied natural gas or promises to offer new guarantees for intellectual-property rights – it could convince Trump to stand down.
Typically, these protests are local in nature and generally resolved with a combination of payoffs, arrests, and promises of future improvement.
For the first few years after 1997, “one country, two systems” seemed to work pretty well, though China did break its promises by blocking democratic development.
First, China must make clear through its actions that it can be trusted to keep its promises to Hong Kong.
The West’s Broken Promises on Education AidNEW YORK – The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of development assistance calls a “replenishment round,” meaning that it is asking donor governments to refill its coffers.
Likewise, let us suppose that Trump will carry through on his budget promises.
On the contrary, if Trump follows through on his campaign promises, the greenback could eventually be toppled from the peak of the global monetary hierarchy, as a widening range of alternatives emerge to pull it down.
ASEAN and the US are highly skeptical of China’s repeated public promises of a non-hegemonic mode of international relations; but they should not be blind to China’s legitimate security concerns, which it will never neglect.
Their extensive promises, assurances, and pre-commitments have lured market participants into a false sense of security.
During Trump’s presidential campaign, Arpaio was a poster child of the divisive immigration debate and a vocal supporter of the candidate’s extreme promises, including the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
Moreover, government investment and allocation of resources has long been tainted by corruption, and Modi's government has yet to show that it can implement the budget's promises in a transparent and sustainable manner.
Although non-governmental organizations are doing an effective job, responsibilities assigned to different European countries – such as helping the Afghan government with law enforcement and poppy eradication – have fallen short of both needs and promises.
The protesters have also understood that, despite repeated promises of financial help, debt cancellation, and support for disease control, the rich countries – and the IMF and World Bank, which the rich countries control – have done very little to help.
That is a welcome development, and not only for France, because Sarkozy’s activism also promises to boost Europe’s political influence around the world.
Council President Donald Tusk has been especially adamant on this point, criticizing “naive Euro-enthusiastic visions” and calling for a more modest Europe that promises less and delivers more.
On the contrary, it promises more asset bubbles, financial crises, and Japanese-style secular stagnation.
Tellingly, their promises were to “take back control” and “make America great again” – in other words, to turn back the clock.
His promises include partial privatization of social security and making his earlier tax cuts permanent, which, if adopted, will send the deficits soaring to record levels.
Instead, Germany got a government that will implement a predetermined set of policies, contained in a 170-page agreement hammered out behind closed doors – one that promises more of the same.
But one common pattern that does emerge is that the jihadi message, because it promises meaning and identity, seems to appeal particularly to people who are unsure about who they are and where they are heading.
Moreover, to encourage this outcome, the coalition agreement promises that the government will “adopt new initiatives to strengthen and deepen the Common Foreign and Security Policy” after the EU summit in December 2013.
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