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With the stakes in Syria rising fast, one can only wonder where America stands.
The stakes are high: Nation-states can survive a lost decade or more; but the EU, an incomplete association of nation-states, could easily be destroyed by it.
This emerging strategic shift will likely have far-reaching consequences, raising the stakes of Sino-Japanese sparring over islands in the East China Sea.
Given the stakes, this is a task worth doing despite the high risk of failure.
But never before have the stakes surrounding the question been so high.
But while the stakes were certainly higher in Chamberlain’s case, at least his polices could be reversed before they destroyed the country (and Winston Churchill did just that).
But the stakes may be greater if today’s more powerful globalization were to meet a similar fate.
Although intervention would be temporary and technically limited, everyone seems to be avoiding it, because the stakes are very high: not only a devastating civil war and massive human suffering, but also a new order for the whole of the Middle East.
Given the stakes, it is perhaps understandable why the US and China are holding their climate-change cards close to their chests.
So the stakes in Washington are high for President Hu.
For billions of people, the stakes could not be higher.
For Europe, the stakes could not be higher.
Egypt’s Islamists – the strongest political force on the ground, and the most repressed under Mubarak – have serious stakes in this election.
Well, it has not worked so far, and the already-sizeable stakes just got bigger.
The stakes are simply too high.
But, this time, the protesters will be even angrier, and the stakes will be much higher, because the monarchy’s role in Thailand’s electoral democracy will be called into question.
True, the Treasury would take equity stakes in some firms, so there would be some upside potential.
With Iran, the stakes are, and always have been, higher.
In addition to the collection of bribes and the sale of promotions in the army and government, investigative journalists have documented that senior officials in China – as in many other countries – hold sizable stakes in valuable companies (often through relatives and friends).
Given the stakes, continuing to rely on proven approaches, even while trying to promote a world with fewer and safer nuclear weapons, is a judicious strategy.
The stakes – human, economic, and strategic – are enormous.
This time, the stakes are too high.
The stakes of this war are much higher and much more dangerous than America’s proxy warriors imagine.
But even if May fails, London-based financial institutions could simply pull up stakes and decamp to continental Europe.
This would raise the stakes for Chinese border violations, thereby boosting deterrence.
The political stakes are high, and the outcome is likely to reflect that.
Estonia’s former government may have been too severe with pensioners, but at the same time parties advocating moderate benefit levels have been defeated by parties willing to raise the stakes in populist bids for pensioner votes.
Moreover, some countries, overwhelmed by their debts to China, are being forced to sell to it stakes in Chinese-financed projects or hand over their management to Chinese state-owned firms.
According to China’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, Yi Xianliang, the sale of stakes in other projects is also under discussion, in order to help Sri Lanka “solve its finance problems.”
American leftists should approach this situation by putting the question to leftists in Poland, Lithuania, or Ukraine, where the stakes are high.
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