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The left, by contrast, believes that markets, particularly financial markets, need considerable government regulation and supervision to function well; gives greater weight to public goods (for example, parks, a clean environment, and mass-transit systems); seeks to reduce economic inequality, believing that it undermines democracy and the sense of fairness that is important to well-being; and is more willing to pursue international cooperation as a means to secure peace and provide global public goods, such as climate protection.
But it also seeks protection from the dizzying effects of globalization, which probably will mean strong support for the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, skepticism toward further trade liberalization and the will to improve European Union’s economic government.
Russia seeks China’s support in opposing American missile-defense systems, and calls for the involvement of all nuclear states in future strategic arms-control talks, but then cites concerns about China’s military modernization to justify its refusal to negotiate with NATO on tactical nuclear-weapon reduction.
China’s so-called “nine dashes” claim, which essentially seeks to turn the entire South China Sea into a southern Chinese lake, represents a legacy of Chiang Kai-Shek’s Republic of China.
From Indonesia to Afghanistan, from Georgia to Ukraine, Lepper's movement is part of a new nihilism that seeks to make countries ungovernable.
Speaking at the United Nations plenary meeting this September, Kan said that his government seeks to achieve a “society in which human suffering is reduced a minimum.”
If a Trump administration seeks to scrap NAFTA, Canada and Mexico will need to make common cause.
It makes little sense to declare war on a tactic, and experience has proven that the terminology merely reinforces the narrative that bin Laden seeks to promote, which is why Britain now avoids the phrase.
The alternative regulatory approach, promoted by Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman and the chairman of Britain’s Financial Service Authority, Adair Turner, seeks to use regulation to limit risk-taking without changing the structure of the banking system.
Yet Putin continues to ignore Trump’s actions and seeks for more meetings “to touch base” with the ever-complimentary US president, such as at this month’s World War I centenary in Paris or the G20 summit in Argentina.
His intention is quite clear: “Man’s active nature, flagging, seeks too soon the level;Unqualified repose he learns to crave, Whence, willingly, the comrade him I gave, Who works, excites, and must create, as Devil.”
With China, like seeks to talk to like.
China’s goal is to prevent ASEAN members from uniting against it and to diminish the role of international law in a region where it seeks strategic dominance.
Each fears the spread of Islamic nationalism and so each seeks to prevent the Islamic fervor in Iran and Afghanistan from lapping across their borders.
It wishes to join the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum, and seeks to do so with the help of the Beijing government.
Finally, the TPP seeks to bring into the ambit of a trade and investment agreement “new and emerging” issues.
In fact, as Prime Minister David Cameron recently explained, his government seeks to renegotiate the terms of its EU membership, and to hold a referendum on the outcome, which potentially would decide whether the UK remains an EU member.
Fearing a new era of obstructionism, EU leaders have revived talk of a two-speed union, in which a vanguard of western states seeks deeper integration, leaving the newcomers to catch up.
China seeks to turn the South China Sea into a southern Chinese lake, and has included sovereignty over a disputed group of rocks in the East China Sea among its so-called core interests.
Iran harbors hegemonic ambitions which it seeks to realize by means of its military potential, oil and gas reserves, its nuclear program, its influence over Shiites throughout the region, and its efforts to upset the status quo within the Arab Muslim world.
But whereas Europe supports a kind of “offensive multilateralism” that seeks to beef up existing institutions’ rules and enforcement mechanisms, China resists changes to existing standards, especially if they strengthen enforcement of rules that might constrain its ability to maximize its own advantages.
Still, Latin Americans know how to resist and how to create social movements to fight the "axis of evil" - militarization, foreign debt, and the Association of Free Trade for the Americas - that seeks to subject their continent to re-colonization by the US.
EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pedro Solbes has often repeated in recent weeks that the Commission seeks to increase coordination of fiscal policies among Euro members.
Similarly, greater openness to investment is crucial for China as it seeks to ensure continued technological progress.
This is how the regime of Kim Jong-un seeks to ensure its long-term survival.”
The EU is an inspiring political structure that seeks to break the mold of the nineteenth-century nation-state.
Without disputing the need for some deleveraging, a new incarnation of the Vienna Initiative – Vienna 2.0 – seeks to make the process orderly.
One recognizes that equal dignity should be accorded to all human beings, and seeks to build bridges of understanding between faiths.
The other regards those who do not share their faith as unworthy unbelievers, and seeks to build a protective wall around it, or even to be actively hostile to “outsiders.”
When a family seeks treatment that, in the professional judgment of the physicians, is not in the patient’s best interests, the answer should be: not far at all.
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