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This feckless approach to China’s quietly emerging hegemony in the South China Sea has heightened concerns of the region’s smaller countries.
Western European productivity growth almost matches America's, suggesting that the new economy is coming to Western Europe, only quietly and with much less fanfare than in America.
For example, the Kingdom and its Arab partners have quietly slipped out of the US-led air war in Syria, leaving the campaign largely in American hands.
Her body was then hurriedly flown back to India, where it was quietly, almost surreptitiously, cremated.
Beyond that, Asia's top question is China: will Hong Kong go over quietly, will Taiwan stay independent?
As the US contemplated a possible nuclear attack on China, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies quietly told US President Dwight Eisenhower, “If there is a war over Taiwan, it is your affair and not ours.”
For example, the UN has helped negotiate temporary ceasefires so that humanitarian-aid agencies can access besieged areas;UN agencies have quietly furnished local NGOs working in rebel-controlled areas with sorely needed supplies and technical advice; and the UN Security Council has passed resolutions to bypass the Syrian government and allow cross-border humanitarian-aid delivery.
French Premier Jospin quietly liberalized the French labor market by allowing for more part-time work, increased privatization, and promoted a more globally competitive financial system with reduced governmental control.
So before chuckling at the spectre of Gorbachev embracing commercial culture in those Pizza Hut ads, and wishing that he quietly disappear, we would do well to remember that it was Gorbachev who introduced today's emerging liberal political culture to Russia.
Given China’s proclivity for strategic stealth, even its work on the Gwadar port was launched quietly.
Cocom provided an opportunity to settle squabbles and plug loopholes quietly.
Some of its members are quietly asking themselves whether there is a future for them in the land of human rights.
In France, too, many of them express – often quietly – both their deep love for what Israel is and their deep concern for what Israel is now doing.
The Cold War ended quietly, and the dismantlement of the Soviet empire followed.
Could it be true that huge government investors from Asia (not to mention Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East) have quietly taken control of world markets?
Previously autonomous regulatory bodies (such as the competition authority) have been quietly subordinated to the government, with no debate or discussion.
Unique among his Republican peers, after 2001 he spoke – quietly in public, but loudly in private – against the Bush administration’s feckless fiscal policies.
Indeed, fearful of popular backlash against its decision to release the crew of the US spyplane without securing either a meaningful American apology or adequate financial compensation, China's government quietly shut down several popular internet sites in the weeks following the spy plane incident - including the chatroom that posted the above-cited messages.
And the massive exit packages they received – $40 million for Ailes and up to $25 million for O’Reilly – far exceeded the settlements quietly paid to their victims, who were forced out of the company long before their harassers were.
Focused obsessively on three issues – trade, North Korea, and Iran – Trump has watched quietly as China builds up its military assets through frenzied construction of permanent facilities on newly reclaimed land.
The Democrats asked people to sit quietly and trust the bureaucrats and politicians to look after their interests.
In order to succeed, we must capitalize on the expertise of individuals and groups that have been quietly, diligently, and independently studying such diseases.
It is ironic that China, which has quietly waged a trade war for years, has responded to Trump’s threats to impose punitive tariffs by warning – notably, at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos – of the risks of protectionism and trade wars.
But by standing firm against the Kremlin, Kennedy brought the crisis to a peaceful end: the Soviet Union removed its nuclear missiles from Cuba, and the US quietly removed its missiles from Turkey.
It is encouraging in this regard that Saudi Arabia has quietly made major improvements to Saudi Aramco’s corporate governance in the last two years.
But Blair’s high political profile means that what he does can’t be divorced from the broader politics or quietly played down if things don’t go well.
Meanwhile, the US is quietly uncomfortable, and China, too, has remained silent.
It strains the imagination to think that the coming macroeconomic confrontation could subside quickly or quietly.
Manufacturers who fooled Trump into thinking they would keep production in the US have continued to transfer operations quietly to Mexico, China, and elsewhere.
And Bolivia’s president Evo Morales, arguably the wiliest of the populist lot, is quietly switching camps.
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