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And yet, when news broke last month that China had officially replaced Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, instead of crowing about surpassing a longtime rival and having the top spot, held by the US, in its sights, the government issued statements emphasizing that theirs remains a “poor, developing” country.
Then colonial powers carved up the continent artificially and arbitrarily, masking their greed behind noble-sounding goals: theirs was a “civilizing” mission.
In other words, theirs are not global problems.
Theirs is not a revolution; it is cocaine-crazed nihilism.
The Jews managed to hang on to theirs for almost 2,000 years.
Some countries, like the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, and Australia, are increasing their foreign-aid budgets; others, even traditionally generous donors like Japan and the Netherlands, have reduced theirs.
Since then, Chinese officials have insisted that they do not belong in US-Russian strategic-arms talks, because the two countries’ nuclear arsenals dwarf theirs.
China might be willing to make a unilateral, but enforceable, commitment not to augment its nuclear arsenal, if Russia and the US reduce theirs further.
This is small change in the grand scheme of global finance; but, given that many of these borrowers were in distress or default just a decade ago, and needed debt forgiveness, theirs is an especially impressive turnaround.
Theirs is a politics of fear and dog-whistle incitement of the extremist forces that exist in every society.
They try to report the world as it is, but theirs is not the world of most people – their business depends on the disruption of “ordinary” business, so they systematically underestimate people’s desire for law and order (or at least order).
Theirs is a model that constrains national sovereignty by binding states to shared norms, conventions, and treaties.
Theirs is a model that favors the strong and punishes the weak, and that rewards competitors at the expense of cooperators.
Apparently, I was expected to sit there, without touching my glass, glowering with arms folded until everyone else had placed theirs back on the table.
Americans today compare their current crisis to the Great Depression;Russians compare theirs to the crisis of 1998, which is much fresher in the collective memory.
Theirs are unremarkable economies that do not garner many headlines.
Theirs is not the world we live in or a world we should want to live in.
It is thanks to him that Poles can be proud that theirs was the first Soviet Bloc country to free itself of Communist tyranny.
They know that communications transcend borders, and that a single news story, handled skillfully, can be as damaging to our cause – and as helpful to theirs – as any military attack.
Politicians now have to do theirs.
But this gesture will come just ten days after Abe hosts Putin in his Yamaguchi prefecture hometown; and theirs will be a rather different sort of reconciliation.
Romania will have to decide whether or not it actually wants to have a past before its people can begin to confront and live with theirs.
Policymakers’ goal should be to ensure that infrastructure realizes its full potential, so that the people who depend on it can realize theirs.
This is our purpose today; we must commit ourselves to it as passionately as democracy’s enemies pursue theirs.
But they knew that they could not improve their product faster than engineers could improve theirs, and thus that blocking the spread of tractors would be impossible.
If this is what motivates the Republicans’ hardline stance in the ongoing US redistribution battle, then theirs is a worthy cause – that of attempting to protect their descendants from being exploited.
But, while it may be natural for Western businessmen to compare China with other developing countries, Chinese citizens have much higher standards, because they do not regard theirs as just another developing country.
After several centuries studying apes, we are familiar with every subtle difference in form between our species and theirs.
Theirs will be a more complicated analysis for more complicated times.
In acting on these concerns, developed countries must bear in mind that state-controlled entities are important players in the global FDI market – and theirs more so than those of emerging markets.
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