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Global oversight of resource extraction is a perfect economic-development issue for the G-20, not least because the theatrical pledges of aid to poor countries that were the stuff of G-8 meetings have now been recognized as empty rhetoric.
CLAREMONT – Distinguishing diplomatic rhetoric from official policy is never easy.
But, even as rhetoric, the phrase “Asia for Asians” is problematic for historical reasons.
Such rhetoric lays the worst of all traps for a popular movement: the trap of conspiratorial thinking.
After all, the world’s financial centers are not only susceptible to bouts of irrationality; they are also less likely to be swayed by the sort of political rhetoric that might find some sympathy within the Commission or among ministerial colleagues in the EU Council.
To inspire more such initiatives, there must be a deliberate effort to engage with youth in a way that supports real political engagement, not tokenism and empty rhetoric.
For example, despite nationalist rhetoric by state enterprises and associated trade unions, the government should decide that the vast telecommunications network should be privatized, including to foreign investors.
To support these efforts, China’s propaganda machine has probably been instructed to tone down nationalist rhetoric and cut out content that might offend its neighbors.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the political extremes has fed into mainstream political discourse.
The international community must now match its rhetoric with action.
They can point to the violent, anti-Zionist, and, yes, anti-Semitic rhetoric of radical Islamists, and argue that no deal with the Palestinians is possible.
For them, rhetoric is more important than substance and power is more important than how it is exercised.
It is hard to know how much harm Argentina’s undiplomatic pronouncements during its default saga did to its efforts at navigating the United States’ legal system; what is clear is that its ill-considered official rhetoric did not help its case.
With the Mexican government failing to translate its rhetoric on human rights into action, NAFTA may provide a powerful mechanism to improve outcomes.
This rhetoric is as misguided as the Club of Rome’s predictions.
The populist right has traditionally adopted quasi-leftist rhetoric in times of deflation.
His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric.
On the contrary, his belligerent rhetoric and inept governance scared off investors, inciting economic decline and boosting unemployment and poverty.
So, despite the current regime’s tough, often anti-Western rhetoric, they are not at all interested in closing Russia off from the West.
Whether the US government deliberately lied to the world about the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or got carried away by its own rhetoric is less important than the lesson to be learned: it is dangerous to put excessive power in the hands of a few.
After Twitter, Trump’s trade rhetoric is his most powerful weapon.
But next year, Trump can be expected to turn rhetoric into action on two main fronts.
Brexiteers have also walked back pledges to curb immigration, amid a sharp increase in hate crimes across the UK that their rhetoric helped to fuel.
Here is the familiar rhetoric of sacrifice and pain.
Trump’s protectionist campaign rhetoric may not have been meant literally, but if he fails to deliver any of the trade curbs that he promised, Republicans will suffer a backlash from what is now their core voter constituency, voters in declining industries and regions.
Over Obama’s tenure, Republicans came to realize that it was no longer sufficient simply to call for a repeal of Obamacare, and their rhetoric shifted to the need to “repeal and replace.”
Second, our rhetoric about our role as America’s international partners for peace should not stray too far from reality.
Indeed, in pushing for a small Europe, they have asserted, using the sober rhetoric of Realpolitik, that Europe’s integration path is necessarily shaped by the crises that arise along the way.
President Donald Trump is attempting to cut immigration, including by building a wall on the border with Mexico, all while employing distressing rhetoric against Muslims and other minority groups.
The populist rhetoric on trade may be excessive, but few deny any longer that the underlying grievances are real.
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