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Jiang Qing advocates a tri-cameral legislature – a democratically elected People’s House representing the common people’s interests, a House of Exemplary Persons to secure the good of all those affected by government policies, including foreigners and minority groups, and a House of Cultural Continuity that would maintain China’s various religions and traditions.
Long dependent on China to finesse its fiscal problems, America may now have to pay a much steeper price to secure external capital.
But what tools does Venezuela have at its disposal to secure a cooperative solution with its creditors in a post-Argentina world?
As an additional form of pressure to secure participation, PDVSA’s exclusive right to exploit Venezuela’s hydrocarbon reserves can be withdrawn or modified.
Today, a half-decade after the end of its 36-year civil war, Sri Lanka is at a crucial moment in its own efforts to consolidate peace and secure its long-term benefits.
This signals a major shift from the previous, outdated strategy, issued in 2003, whose much-maligned opening sentence declared, “Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure, nor so free.”
With China seeking to secure exclusive access to energy resources in Africa and the Russian energy giant Gazprom seeking de facto control of Western companies by investing billions of euros in them, Europe can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see approach.
In building the means to secure Europe’s energy future, we will also renew the spirit of European integration and give new strength to the EU as a global actor.
So she spearheaded efforts to secure justice for human-rights abuses that had occurred during the civil wars; reignited the economy through debt relief; rebuilt war-torn infrastructure; improved access to clean water and sanitation; and strengthened Liberia’s democratic institutions, including by enacting the country’s first Freedom of Information Act.
They helped her country to secure greater international support.
But, motivated by rapidly worsening climate conditions – global carbon dioxide emissions rose in 2017 for the first time in four years – negotiators ultimately managed to secure a last-minute deal.
After all, Germany's traditional low-key foreign policy made the country an anchor of NATO and helped secure reunification.
This implies increasing minerals exports to China, together with growing Chinese investment in the region to secure sources of supply.
Higher oil prices tend to erode production discipline in OPEC, particularly by members (such as Nigeria and Venezuela) that have historically rushed to secure higher revenues to mitigate difficult budgetary conditions, at the expense of their peers (such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates).
If repression were enough to secure compliance with the rules, democratic legitimacy would be unimportant.
Gone are the days when military muscle and the politics of subversion could secure US influence – in Latin America or anywhere else.
In recent decades, China took advantage of the international community’s shunning of Burma to secure its own strategic interests, building highways, railways, ports, and pipelines that connect southern and western China to the Indian Ocean.
But the lesson of 1973 is that a disruption of Gulf oil supplies would raise prices and damage both rich and poor economies, regardless of how secure their own sources of supply might be.
China appears to believe that it can secure its energy imports by locking up oil contracts with pariah states like Sudan.
Measures that some legislators favor, such as transforming coal into liquids, increase secure supplies, but they imply more carbon dioxide emissions than imported oil does.
In November, several unions organized rallies where demonstrators cursed the ruling centre-right government and invoked the Ceausescu era as one relatively good and secure.
In short, cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea is vital to secure their long-term shared future.
The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets – and thus their value – is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy’s productive capital is too low.
The obvious solution is for governments to create more cash to satisfy the demand for safe, secure, liquid assets.
As Keynes liked to say: “Unemployment develops...because people want the moon” – safe, secure, and liquid assets.
To achieve this end, Russia must create a secure and attractive investment climate.
Today, however, Spanish banks – especially those most heavily engaged in domestic mortgage lending – must pay a much higher spread over interbank rates to secure new funding.
Tom Paine, the great American revolutionary and author of The Rights of Man, wrote: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
Europe must work to secure its position in the new world order – beginning by enhancing its own trade and investment ties with the US.
In the coming weeks, we will draft an International Declaration on Information and Democracy, and in coordination with the leaders of several democratic countries, work to secure support from governments around the world.
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