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China's
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prosecutor, Han Zhubin, revealed that more than 3,400 people were arrested from 1998 to 2002 for such crimes as subversion, incitement to subversion, espionage, and trafficking in state secrets.
Leaders around the world, especially those who have been recently elected, should put responding to the global refugee crisis at the
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of their agendas.
To be sure, Trump’s
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military advisers have persuaded him to keep in place the 2,000 military personnel currently stationed in Syria.
At the Summit of the Americas in Lima on April 13-14, the situation in Venezuela will
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the agenda.
As the German Democratic Republic was about to disappear, some
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French diplomats in Germany were still assuring their government in Paris that the Soviet Union would never accept German reunification, so there was nothing to worry about: life would go on nearly as usual.
So rethinking democracy and its institutions must be a
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priority for all to whom the constitution of liberty is dear.
Taking a longer-term view of growth and accounting for social, economic, and environmental equity must be a
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priority for the post-2015 development agenda.
The latter banks would still require substantial capital issuances on
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of dividend restrictions to make up the difference.
As General Mark Welsh, Commander of US Air Forces in Europe, told
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officers and industry executives at a gathering last summer, “We need more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability, and we need it now.”
Generating and harnessing
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level political commitment to engage societies ravaged by HIV/AIDS is critical to fighting this battle successfully.
Yet, in many African countries, HIV/AIDS is not at the
top
of the national agenda.
People tend to opt for the standard (VHS, Windows, DVD) that they believe will come out on top, and thus contribute to that victory.
Chinese elites are convinced that time is working in their favor, and that it is only natural that China should regain its rank amongst the world leading powers, perhaps even emerging on
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one day.
A new referendum is rising to the
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of Britain’s political agenda because of the self-defeating behavior of the Conservative Party’s hardline Brexiteers.
If
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leaders do not monitor their systems to ensure that they are producing full and accurate information flows, the systems are likely to become distorted by the most powerful subordinates.
On
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of the damage from the global economy’s woes, the eurozone was faced with a looming Greek government bankruptcy.
To get the economy going, some people will, in fact, have to bear some pain, but the increasingly skewed income distribution gives clear guidance to whom this should be: Approximately a quarter of all income in the US now goes to the
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1%, while most Americans’ income is lower today than it was a dozen years ago.
As the United States and other developed countries pursue “re-industrialization” and the Chinese economy’s low-wage comparative advantage diminishes, China must re-establish its competitiveness by positioning itself at the
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of the global value chain, which implies the need to promote trade and upgrade its industrial infrastructure.
Yet, barring a last-minute miracle – a major mistake by Hollande that wrecks his credibility, or a fresh bout of crisis that stokes voters’ desire for reassuring continuity at the
top
– Sarkozy appears condemned to be the second one-term president in the history of the Fifth Republic, following Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Other countries that followed America’s lead have experienced growing inequality – more money at the top, more poverty at the bottom, and a weaker middle class.
Complicating matters further, Trump has continued to direct abusive early morning tweets at members of Congress, the media, and others, while losing or firing
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advisers.
For, if disarmament is to become effective, the signal must come from the
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– the US and Russia.
Italy’s populist Five Star Movement (M5S), which came out on
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in Italy’s 2013 parliamentary elections and is predicted to do well again in 2018, emerged from large rallies organized by comedian Beppe Grillo against “la casta” – his derogatory term for what he sees as the country’s ruling casteof professional politicians and journalists.
Trump’s
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priority should be to stitch it back together; but his trade advisers do not understand this.
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officials at USA Gymnastics, one of the country’s most prominent Olympic organizations, not only failed to alert police to those allegations; they hid the complaints.
But, while we can all think of examples of Americans who rose to the
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on their own, what really matters are the statistics: to what extent do an individual’s life chances depend on the income and education of his or her parents?
In the “recovery” of 2009-2010, the
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1% of US income earners captured 93% of the income growth.
The clear trend is one of concentration of income and wealth at the top, the hollowing out of the middle, and increasing poverty at the bottom.
It would be one thing if the high incomes of those at the
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were the result of greater contributions to society, but the Great Recession showed otherwise: even bankers who had led the global economy, as well as their own firms, to the brink of ruin, received outsize bonuses.
A closer look at those at the
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reveals a disproportionate role for rent-seeking: some have obtained their wealth by exercising monopoly power; others are CEOs who have taken advantage of deficiencies in corporate governance to extract for themselves an excessive share of corporate earnings; and still others have used political connections to benefit from government munificence – either excessively high prices for what the government buys (drugs), or excessively low prices for what the government sells (mineral rights).
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