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We are also told that if the United States were to slow the pace of automation unilaterally, it would forfeit its dominant position on the world stage.
Even though lack of foresight is universally viewed as a leading cause of its Iraq debacle, the United States (with British backing probable) is now preparing to recognize Kosovo’s independence unilaterally – irrespective of the consequences for Europe and the world.
Romania fears the fallout from Kosovo’s unilaterally gaining independence on neighboring Moldova.
The worry is that Russia will unilaterally recognize the breakaway Moldovan territory of Transdnistria, which Russian troops and criminal gangs have been propping up for 16 years.
The judges contrasted their opinion with that handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada when it was asked to rule on Quebec’s right to secede unilaterally.
All of this could be done (and is being done) unilaterally.
Trump has unilaterally imposed tariffs on other NATO members, citing national security concerns, of all things.
The treaties mark an attempt to balance action and ambition in a context of economic crisis, fiscal consolidation, large-scale defense transformations, increasing interdependencies, and global threats – from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to climate change, resource scarcity, and epidemics – that are impossible to tackle unilaterally.
The Spanish government assumes that Catalan’s parliament will not dare to declare independence unilaterally, because the move would receive no international recognition.
In this context, the administration has rejected calls to withdraw US tactical nuclear weapons from Europe unilaterally, insisting that it will only do so with the consent of all NATO members.
Trump has promised to ditch the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, and unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
And now that the US Congress has stepped in, Trump can no longer unilaterally lift sanctions on Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron has not forgotten that, in 2013, Obama humiliated France by unilaterally abandoning a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
In 2013, tensions peaked when China unilaterally declared an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering territories in the East China Sea that it claims, but Japan controls.
But the Arab states nonetheless insist that, even before the end of conflict, Israel unilaterally must give up its (undeclared) nuclear capabilities.
This is a futile exercise, not only because Israel would never disarm unilaterally, but also because without normal inter-state relations in the region it is impossible to engage seriously in an effective dialogue on such vital issues.
The truth, of course, is that the decision not to renounce, unilaterally, one’s wealth does not discredit a preference for a more equitable society.
That is why, in 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally abandoned the dollar’s convertibility to gold, leaving major currencies’ exchange rates to float against one another.
Observers in the West and the developing world question whether the solutions China is offering are genuine public goods; many suspect that China’s “one belt, one road” initiative, for example, is a self-serving, unilaterally imposed scheme.
Unable to agree on coordinated reflationary action, governments opted to move unilaterally.
As unemployment again rises to catastrophic heights, they will have no alternative, it is said, but to abandon the euro unilaterally.
By contrast, were the ECB to adopt decisive measures, it could reflate the entire eurozone and obviate the need for countries to act unilaterally.
Each attributed the Great Depression to different causes, leading them to prescribe different remedies, which they administered unilaterally.
They unilaterally issue statements about what they see as the rules of the game for future elections.
For starters, in 2001, Argentina unilaterally defaulted on its entire $100 billion debt, an unusual step, rather than negotiating new terms with its creditors.
This time around, they have not heard much from the President-elect, who is a Democrat, on trade with Asia, and what they have heard about his position on the North American Free Trade Agreement – an alleged desire to rewrite that trade pact unilaterally – does not inspire confidence.
But it is folly to think that the US can curb Iran’s nuclear and regional activities by unilaterally walking away.
And this is not to mention emerging market politicians’ failure to grasp that unilaterally reducing their excessive import restrictions would be a good idea even if rich countries sat on their hands.
No low-level Moscow court judge or prosecutor could possibly have summoned Sechin unilaterally.
He was famously protectionist during the primaries, declaring he would unilaterally rewrite NAFTA.
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