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If one were to listen to these parties’ rhetoric, one might think that refugees and migrants are pouring into Europe unhindered.
Given the inflammatory rhetoric of US President Donald Trump, discussion in Mexico is understandably revolving around the renegotiation of NAFTA.
If North Korea resumes nuclear and long-range missile tests, Trump, whose instinct is to escalate the rhetoric of conflict, will come under pressure to respond forcefully.
Adding substance – and striking symbolism – to the rhetoric, Obama and Gillard announced the creation of a training base in northern Australia for 2,500 US Marines, a significant new capability within easy reach of both South East Asia and the Indian Ocean.
That great staple of political rhetoric appears to have been buried across the developing world.
Of course, US politicians are rarely short on lofty rhetoric – from Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” campaign to Barack Obama’s “Yes, we can” slogan to Donald Trump’s “America First” refrain.
Europe’s Non-Rhetorical ValuesWARSAW – The debate about Europe’s future is burdened by misleading and emotionally charged rhetoric, with vague talk of “more Europe” hampering productive discussion about European countries’ real problems.
Such rhetoric usually displays a centralist bias, with the pursuit of “more Europe” depicted as the only way that the European Union can compete economically with politically centralized countries like the United States and China.
If believers in traditional European values fail to ensure that their voices, too, are heard, hazy rhetoric will continue to overshadow constructive debate of the EU’s problems – and misguided policies will continue to undermine Europe’s prospects.
Such talk allows Netanyahu to persist in his doomsday rhetoric.
It will not be long before even Europe's more respectable conservative parties reach for rhetoric about "foreigners coming here to feast off of our taxes."
HONG KONG – US President Donald Trump’s recent speech at the United Nations has gotten a lot of attention for its bizarre and bellicose rhetoric, including threats to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal and “totally destroy” North Korea.
The resulting ideological mix comprises three main components: virulent anti-immigrant animus, ignorant anti-trade rhetoric, and extreme anti-government sentiment.
Those who see in his patriotic rhetoric a desire to whitewash history miss his real concern: economic revival is meaningless if it does not secure Japan’s position as a leading Asian power.
Much political rhetoric, and a spate of new books, would have us believe that the US is now in a dangerous state of funk.
Faced with mounting corruption scandals, both Lula and former President Dilma Rousseff, also of the Workers’ Party, routinely invoked us-versus-them rhetoric.
Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that “war” allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.
Avoiding coercion, premature elections, and hypocritical rhetoric should not preclude a patient policy that relies on economic assistance, behind-the-scenes diplomacy, and multilateral approaches to aid the development of civil society, the rule of law, and well-managed elections.
Indeed the only serious risk from the Doha round’s “failure” is that rich countries would take their own rhetoric seriously and react in unproductive ways that prove self-fulfilling.
There is too little knowledge about other communities’ beliefs and history, and what little exists has been overwhelmed by sectarian anger and its poisonous rhetoric.
During the controversy surrounding the Cypriot banking sector's collapse in 2013, Tsipras referred to EU leaders as “gangsters" – the same sort of rhetoric used by far-right European populists like Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders.
A rising tide of Islamophobic rhetoric can be seen in Europe’s mainstream media and among its political parties – for example, the Danish People’s Party, the Dutch Freedom Party, the French National Front, the Swiss Peoples’ Party, the English Defense League, the Italian Northern League, and the Austrian Freedom Party.
The problem for American conservatives is not their choice of candidates or the tone of their rhetoric.
Let’s hope that the late conversion to tough deficit rhetoric gets a lot of play.
China’s top law deans and professors now have a chance to turn rhetoric into reality.
Arab rhetoric often takes the colonial experiences of Algeria and South Africa as models for their conflict with Zionism.
More than rhetoric has shifted.
While the US presidential candidates have adopted protectionist rhetoric, so, too, did Obama as a candidate in 2008.
Second, at a time when economic globalization is rendering national borders porous, political leaders may get carried away by their rhetoric of independence.
The Obama administration’s contradictory rhetoric – affirming that the US-Japan security treaty covers the Senkakus, while refusing to take a position on the islands’ sovereignty – has not helped.
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