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For economic convergence, if allowed to ripen, could set Taiwan and the PRC on an evolutionary course toward common sovereignty.
What would happen if countries like Vietnam and India dedicated days to remembering China’s aggression toward them since 1949?
Putin does not deserve all the credit for this sea change, but what he has achieved over the last two years is far more than anyone had the right to expect: a simplified tax code, progress toward WTO membership, legal reform, greater transparency.
This partly explains both the hostile stance toward QE adopted in the German financial press and the over-indebted periphery countries’ increasingly desperate calls for more action by the ECB.
But without the fine, coming late constitutes impolite, rude, or disrespectful behavior toward the caregivers, which self-respecting people would avoid, even without fines.
But, as George Price showed long ago, Darwinian evolution may have made us altruistic, at least toward people we perceive as members of the group we call “us.”
The evolution of European attitudes toward genetically modified foods and plants reflects just such a dual concern with health and identity.
Toward an Immunized WorldABU DHABI/NEW YORK – For a child, receiving a vaccine takes just a moment (and perhaps a few tears).
Raising global immunization coverage will speed progress toward the MDGs and generate momentum toward a successful post-2015 development agenda.
The Fed, which took the first step toward normalization in early December, will almost certainly deliver – and Trump will soon regret what he wished for.
In recent decades, remarkable strides have been made toward realizing that ambition worldwide.
After all, Obama’s entire foreign-policy agenda – a nuclear deal with Iran, an Israel-Palestine peace agreement, reconciliation with estranged allies in the Middle East, and America’s strategic pivot toward Asia – now hinges on his capacity to tame Putin.
Japan seems to be making great strides toward its goal of recapturing the position as an Asian cultural center that it held a century ago, when the Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore lived in Tokyo.
Egypt’s military regime, led by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has been unrelentingly hostile toward Hamas, blaming it for the fighting in Sinai between the army and insurgent groups.
It did not, however, bring about any progress toward resolving the outstanding issues underlying the dispute between Israel and Hamas, or change the conditions that spurred the latest conflict in the first place.
Thanking BangladeshNEW DELHI – This month, India’s parliament took the first step toward a potentially momentous decision: to settle a boundary dispute with Bangladesh that dates back to the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
Yet it has taken nearly seven decades to make real progress toward resolving the anomalies.
But the reality is that steps toward looser monetary policies are non-existent – especially with the fledgling European Central Bank anxious to establish its inflation-fighting credibility – and that steps toward structural reforms are half-hearted, hesitant, and small.
In light of the new empirical findings, such nonchalance toward trade has become untenable.
Germany’s Four NeinsBERLIN – Germany’s stance toward Europe has become one of rejection and disengagement.
It will have to move away from a strategy in which manufactures are the engine of growth toward the model of a more mature economy, in which employment is increasingly concentrated in the service sector.
But the bad news is that the transition now being asked of China – to shift toward services without experiencing a significant decline in economy-wide productivity growth – is unprecedented in Asia.
For them, religion is not a matter of personal belief, a form of stretching one’s hands toward the divine; instead, it is a key feature of traditional identity politics, a means for maintaining social order, ensuring discipline and conformity, and preventing radical change.
Whereas Wen’s supporters remain adamant that he fundamentally supported a shift toward democracy and a market economy for China, his critics lambast him for failing to fulfill his promises of political and economic reform.
Though it was hardly a paragon of democracy, it did make strides toward building solid institutions.
The government has encouraged Australians to change their attitude toward people in need, while claiming, as Evans does, that Australia remains one of the two or three most generous countries in accepting refugees.
Despair over poverty and insecurity has turned into anger toward the European project – which, sadly, is becoming an EU-wide pathology.
Such efforts would go a long way toward increasing China’s potential growth rate.
While Beijing/Shenyang exercise should have indicated to Russian leaders that China’s intentions toward Russia may not always be benign, Russia’s political and military leadership seem not to sense any threat; on the contrary, they continue to sell the Chinese advanced weapons.
Third, the perhaps irrational but widely documented search for yield implies that many investors will shift their portfolios toward riskier assets, exposing the economy to greater financial instability.
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