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As a result, no domestic retreat by SWFs can be expected to persist.
Then, in August 2016, Vice President Joseph Biden publicly admonished the PYD fighters, warning that they would lose US support if they did not retreat.
Even if Israel’s current war against Gaza is a just war – which is suggested by its attempts at limited and “measured” retaliation after eight years of Hamas rockets followed its unilateral retreat from Gaza – it is therefore a very dirty war, too.
Russian officials need to retreat from their politically impossible demand for legally binding limitations on US BMD.
In constraining America’s commitment, Trump has forfeited the opportunity to help shape Syria’s future, reinforcing the widespread perception – which has taken hold among friends and foes alike – that US global leadership is in retreat.
Al Qaeda, inextricably entwined with the Taliban, would also claim victory if America had signaled a retreat.
Indeed, it is forgotten all too often that the US de facto withdrew from the country once before, following the Soviet retreat of February 1989.
This is because the initial quiet period is often marked by corruption and a retreat from revolutionary goals, leading idealists to feel that the revolution is losing its way.
After all, the first-ever association agreement in 1954 was designed to foster cooperation between the European Coal and Steel Community and the United Kingdom, following the latter’s retreat from formal treaty negotiations.
But some would argue that beneath the chaos and bluster, there is an economic rationale to the Trump administration’s disorderly retreat from globalization.
If history is any guide, tightening monetary policy in the near term will only lead to further economic turbulence, followed by a rapid retreat to low interest rates.
That pragmatic and courageous approach created the necessary space for the two leaders – neither of whom actually wanted a nuclear war – to retreat from the brink without losing face.
At a summit meeting in 2013 at the Sunnylands retreat in California, President Barack Obama showed China’s President Xi Jinping the evidence that members of the Chinese military had been stealing industrial technology.
One cost of the conflict has been the retreat of local governance and arrested development in a desperately poor country where over 80% of the population lives in rural districts.
Will Cameron’s government – and any others that may go down this path – eventually retreat in the face of middle-class rage?
Looking around the world, populist economic policy appears to be in retreat, even though no clear alternative is visible.
For example, one of the biggest regional unknowns is how America’s retreat from multilateral engagement will affect the IMF’s ability to respond to future capital-market disruptions.
But putting aside these headline numbers, a retreat from globalization by the world’s two largest economies would nonetheless entail significant costs.
Toledo, a Stanford graduate and a moderate politician, supported Humala during the campaign and provided him with economic advisers, which proved to be decisive in establishing the credibility of Humala’s retreat from radical policies.
And ideas tend to advance and retreat slowly, like glaciers, not precipitously, like armies.
But Mao kept sending them contradictory orders; the result was that they could neither fight nor retreat.
While the US and the EU do not want to worsen relations with Russia, they cannot retreat in the face of Russian obduracy; security in Europe is at stake.
By putting Obama at odds with the rest of the US establishment, Netanyahu forced him to retreat.
He kidnapped the prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, and detained a host of wealthy Saudis in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, releasing them from their forced retreat only after they had parted ways with much of their wealth.
Perhaps Yanukovych’s retreat from Europe should have been foreseen, given behavior – like locking up his political opponents – that has been difficult to reconcile with European values and democratic norms.
But Russians who believe that Yanukovych’s retreat from Europe represents a great victory should think again.
With the US in retreat, Italy backsliding, and Britain lost in the fog of Brexit, alliance-building responsibilities will fall to other players.
For one thing, the Fed’s retreat partly reflects growing confidence in the US economy, which should mean a stronger export market for most emerging economies.
Looking ahead, some signs point to the global economy’s accelerated healing and growing resilience, which bodes well for an orderly retreat from unconventional policies.
The transparency and consistency of official figures lags well behind the authorities’ hyped promises about government reform, streamlining of the bureaucracy, and the retreat of the Party apparatus.
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