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That they fear that China will, when it has sufficient power, establish a sphere of influence in Southeast Asia and wider East Asia, boot the United States out, and in time, when it's powerful enough, unilaterally seek to change the rules of the global order.
Very rarely do you see a film with this high of a budget being unilaterally bad, imagine Ed Wood with more money and far less charm.
The "employment pact" concluded at the beginning of the year between the government and employee and employer organizations, indeed, was scuttled when Chancellor Kohl unilaterally decreed reductions in social spending on the order of DM50 billion so as to meet a looming budget crunch and prepare the ground for meeting the conditions for emu membership.
Yet Trump has decided unilaterally to impose “the highest level of economic sanction” on Iran and on “any nation that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons.”
Even if freeing up immigration multilaterally seems too difficult to include as part of a Doha round agreement, individual countries could do so unilaterally with the stroke of a pen.
The Iraq War showed that the cost of unilaterally forsaking diplomatic channels can be enormous.
If no agreement on the last remaining issues is achieved, escalation will ensue: the Palestinians may declare independence unilaterally;Israel may retaliate; the delicate balance of Oslo may unravel.
But from the start, the EU should give a signal by unilaterally opening its border to imports from the region.
Imposing unilateral duties after unilaterally labeling China a “currency manipulator” would undermine the multilateral system, with little payoff.
A loose system of individual commitments, in which each country unilaterally sets emissions targets, can help build trust and momentum for a more inclusive successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which many hope will be forged at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015.
Indeed, the DOJ rushed to distance itself from the decision, highlighting how easily Trump can use (or not use) the pardon power to settle his many scores: it is virtually the only power within the criminal justice system that the president can exercise unilaterally.
Hence, Israel must start deciding the future boundaries of the country unilaterally, hoping for eventual negotiations at a later stage.
The US president has the power to impose tariffs and other trade barriers unilaterally, in the interest of national security.
In 2002, it unilaterally abrogated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
But while it is true that Iranian influence has been spreading in the Middle East, there is no good reason to think that unilaterally terminating the JCPOA will suddenly change that fact.
If that fails, Trump could unilaterally intervene to weaken the dollar, or impose capital controls to limit dollar-strengthening capital inflows.
Moreover, with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s announcement of his intention to withdraw Israel’s army unilaterally from Gaza, the occupation itself is once again an open question, offering opportunities for further progress.
I cannot see how a negotiation aimed at getting Iran to renounce unilaterally a right recognized for all NPT signatories simply in order to build confidence in the West could be successful.
For example, China unilaterally established an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea and constructed seven artificial islands in the disputed Spratly archipelago, located off the coast of southern Vietnam.
This suggests that he will feel pressured to do what he can unilaterally.
One thing he can do unilaterally is slap duties on imports, potentially in violation of WTO rules.
When shareholders balked, Chubais sought to neutralize his opponents, unilaterally changing the agreement with the Bank of New York to control the votes of most holders of American Depository Rights (ADRs).
I find it undemocratic, for example, that the ECB can set the eurozone-wide inflation target unilaterally.
In the East China Sea, it has unilaterally declared an air-defense identification zone covering territories that it claims but does not control.
During the Cold War, most Europeans tolerated America's tendency to lead unilaterally, because of the Soviet threat and the preponderance of US power.
According to the FMLC paper, “they are usually the subject of interpretative disagreement, are not legally binding, do not benefit from any binding dispute-resolution mechanisms, and do not prevent national authorities from acting unilaterally.”
The 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference introduced a pledge-and-review process, in which countries unilaterally decided how much they would cut.
France has unilaterally chosen to ignore the Stability and Growth Pact by running a predicted deficit well above the 3% of GDP limit.
On the Israeli side, your faith in the political process was demonstrated recently when you and Sharon decided unilaterally to go against your own ideology and take on the powerful settler movement.
Critics contend that the clause, along with the Kremlin’s implied warning that it could withdraw from the treaty unilaterally were America’s defenses to become too robust, provides the Kremlin with leverage to impede deployment of any strategic missile-defense system.
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