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Higher layoff taxes, which force firms to think twice before laying off, would be welcomed by workers, while lighter and more predictable regulation of employment relations would surely be welcomed by firms.
Territorial security is directly related to improved economic security, prosperity and evolving relations with Europe.
These relations are complicated by Russia's role in protecting the 20 million Russians who now live outside Russia's borders.
Moreover, in 2015, just as the press began labeling him a lame duck, Obama achieved a string of foreign-policy successes – namely, a much-needed nuclear agreement with Iran, normalization of relations with Cuba, and agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
But in a brave new world of ad hoc transactions and raw power relations – the kind that both China and US President Donald Trump seem to prefer – these qualities would do Europe little good.
According to China’s spokesman, allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh could harm bilateral relations, with India “facing the consequences.”
Of course, the old “domino theory” in international relations was only a crude way of emphasizing that different parts of any region are linked to each other.
The EU’s external relations involve two different types of politics.
Of course, transformation of the presidential administration into a public relations machine began under Yeltsin when Anatoli Chubais directed the 1996 election campaign.
In contrast to international trade and monetary relations, no multilateral regime exists to promote and govern cross-border investment.
As we have seen in the recent past, protracted tensions – for example, the territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in 2012 – can severely damage economic and diplomatic relations.
China’s military relations with its North Korean counterparts also could play a stabilizing role, particularly if the Kim dynasty’s demise unleashes internal strife.
The signs of Turkey’s emerging crisis were clearly visible before the souring of US-Turkish relations this month.
Economic relations with the West would not be diluted by this shift.
In recognition of Germany’s growing significance, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao welcomed a delegation of German business leaders to Beijing this May with the words: “Stronger Chinese-German cooperation is good for the two countries, good for China-EU relations, and good for world prosperity and stability.
The strategic dimension of Chinese-German relations, therefore, can only be strengthened, not weakened.”
She needs to balance both geo-economic and geopolitical factors – both interests and values – in advancing Germany’s relations with China.
In the United States, President Donald Trump seems to be curbing his protectionist instincts, and economic relations with China are stabilizing.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, according to this argument, the bi-polar balance of power vanished and America became the world's only superpower, engendering resentment and envy - and hence a difficult time for US-European relations.
His initial commitment to “zero conflicts with neighbors” has led, instead, to deteriorating relations with Armenia, Russia, Israel, and Egypt – not to mention significant domestic blowback, including a wave of terrorist attacks, from involvement in Syria’s civil war.
But the bilateral deals that have emerged from this race sometimes come at the expense of other Union members, and may unbalance relations within the Union as a whole.
Only a rules-based EU framework can provide a firm foundation for both bilateral and Union-wide relations with Russia.
Rapid economic growth in China and India means that both countries will give primacy to a stable flow of energy – and therefore to placid relations with Russia.
Indeed, limiting the army’s political role will certainly be a fundamental condition for maintaining Egypt’s warm relations with the West.
Kim’s visit should be evaluated in terms of Chinese-North Korean relations as they are, rather than as others might wish them to be.
Doing so reveals the role left to America and South Korea to engage the North in order to revive the denuclearization process and repair inter-Korean relations.
Even in the face of strong evidence of North Korean wrongdoing, the Chinese are inclined to view the incident in the context of inter-Korean relations, and do not want to let it determine the fate of the Six Party Talks.
But one way or another, President Lee needs to find a way to get inter-Korean relations back on a peaceful track.
Pursuing these seven principles, described in greater deal elsewhere, is essential in order to calm public fears, reduce chaotic flows of asylum-seekers, ensure that newcomers are fully integrated, establish mutually beneficial relations with countries in the Middle East and Africa, and meet Europe’s international humanitarian obligations.
But it was the hardline Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader in June 1989, who steered the country in that direction, by plunging relations with the US into a near-total freeze.
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