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The most egregious examples of this view were statements made by the political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
The effects of his contradictory statements will come home to roost later this month, when South Korean President Moon Jae-in visits Washington, DC.
Indeed, Trump’s statements about the US-South Korean relationship have ranged from the impolitic to the bizarre – such as accusing the South of unfair trade deals and then threatening to send South Korean leaders a bill for the THAAD system.
Indeed, with Kerry’s time and travel focused on the Middle East, many Asian leaders believe that Obama’s signature foreign policy – strategic “rebalancing” toward Asia – has run out of steam, even as tension between China and Japan, evident in their leaders’ statements at Davos, continues to mount.
Yet Western leaders have offered only a few carefully phrased diplomatic statements criticizing it.
As Harvard University’s Larry Summers and Barry Eichengreen of the University of California at Berkeley, have observed, it is almost as if Trump’s economic strategy – if one can call his vague and vacillating statements that – has been designed to reduce manufacturing employment in America further.
Musharraf denounced her statements.
The public response to recent inflammatory statements from prominent AfD leaders seems to confirm this rule.
Energy companies have long been known to make false statements about climate change intentionally, just as mining companies and manufacturing firms, whether in clothing or tech, have persistently turned a blind eye to terrible, even abusive, conditions faced by their workers.
Moreover, just as Trump will continue to issue extremist and ignorant public statements, the investigation into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia will not end anytime soon.
The mainstream media, faced with a president who might sometimes be badly uninformed and yet really believes what he is saying, hesitate to label conspicuously false statements as lies.
On the contrary, since the crisis began, Russia’s leaders have repeatedly contradicted their previous statements, backtracked, reversed decisions, and denied easily verifiable facts.
The investigation is focusing on whether the company knowingly made false statements about climate change, starting from the 1980’s.
In fact, the company’s public statements – including as recently as last year – routinely dismissed the risk of climate change.
But, for investment banks, shadow banks, and especially commercial banks (with their expensive networks of branches and ATMs), such a policy makes it very difficult to report regular and healthy operating profits on their quarterly income statements and regular and healthy gains in their clients’ portfolios.
Nowadays, some economists seem to believe that pointing out a single factual error (out of more than 20 statements of fact) invalidates an entire argument.
Such statements are clearly not befitting of a British political leader, much like many of the racially charged and otherwise incendiary comments (not to mention actions) that Trump has made.
Shell, for its part, says that it only paid the Nigerian government, and that it does “not agree with the premise behind various public statements made by Global Witness about Shell companies in relation to OPL 245.”
Syria’s people may have no predilection for violence, but the birth of freedom, once witnessed, is not easily forgotten – or trumped by state handouts and vacuous statements by a distant, self-isolated leadership.
Though I will defend the right of individuals to make racist statements, I would not make such statements myself or listen to a speaker making them.
These statements of faith are both historic and timely, as the world’s countries seek to implement global agreements in areas ranging from climate change to the Sustainable Development Goals and the establishment of marine reserves on the high seas.
But he did so only after his cabinet secretaries’ statements had attracted sharp responses from international partners.
Either way, fuzzy statements about hegemonic decline would again prove misleading.
But, under the influence of a few countries, the conference’s final declaration could end up being little more than vague statements and lofty language.
America’s BerlusconiLONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US President-elect Donald Trump will behave in office and what policies he will pursue, following a long campaign full of contradictory statements.
While outgoing President Hu Jintao and PremierWen Jiabao struck reformist chords in public statements and in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, many inside China – including, reportedly, Jiang – are disappointed.
Recent Chinese statements declare the islands a “core interest,” terms usually reserved for Taiwan and Tibet.
Today, the impact of the Chinese School seems to be limited mostly to official statements, while the traditionalists are gradually gaining policy influence.
Such statements sounded new to Chinese ears, because they accentuated politics rather than trumpeting the Party’s usual emphasis on economic determinism.
In public statements, officials have given some hints as to what these other considerations may be.
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