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It used to be the champion of rules; it is unprepared for the new, transactional game of geopolitics.
But frequent changes in US policy toward Northeast Asia in recent years have disoriented South Korean policymakers, while Chinese policy, though consistent, confronts South Korea’s leaders with choices that they appear unprepared to make.
After all, most new political challengers appear unprepared for the top job until they are in power.
Yet the UN Environment Programme’s first adaptation report, released in Lima, showed that the world remains wholly unprepared to cover the costs of adaptation.
Despite memories of the slaughter of Chinese during the anti-communist purges of the 1960s, Indonesia's Chinese were unprepared for the intense hatred shown in the riots of May 1998, when arson and looting, as well as gang rapes of numerous Chinese women, battered the Chinese community.
But Putin remains unprepared to act; in fact, so far, he has pretended that there is no crisis at all.
At the same time, unilateral action by countries, like Hungary, that are unprepared to countenance even transiting migrants, merely ends up diverting the flow.
Unfortunately, the current biomedical research establishment is entirely unprepared for such a scenario.
Investing so much time and effort on an election will mean nothing if the West is unprepared to follow up on the result, whatever it may be – and with whatever steps are required.
He also criticized NATO for being unprepared to join the US-led fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).
It is bad enough that the world is utterly unprepared for the future that can be foreseen.
Most Affluents seem unprepared for this change, but such demands will need to be accommodated.
For Europeans, with our turbulent eastern and southern neighborhoods, this presents an additional security challenge for which we are materially and intellectually unprepared.
And, whether it comes in the form of a capital strike by foreign bondholders, or of domestic labor strikes and wider social and political unrest, France’s leaders remain entirely unprepared for the inevitable.
My long experience at the wheel of my country convinces me that unprepared actions, uncoordinated campaigns, are superficial and yield only temporary results.
The experience was a lesson for banks, regulators, central banks, and treasuries, which, not surprisingly, were unprepared to handle a comprehensive crisis.
Our country needed democracy and economic reform, but few understood that democracy and the market economy are complex systems which could not develop easily in an unprepared social and economic environment.
That the country was unprepared should have been clear.
But, while China has implemented policies to maximize the benefits of free trade (undervaluing its currency, investing in infrastructure, and luring foreign manufacturing to increase competitiveness), the country remains unprepared for deeper integration with the world.
The UK is approaching a fundamental political realignment, for which the current government is totally unprepared.
Virtually all efforts to prevent Trump’s nomination have ended, and establishment Republicans are moving steadily to reconcile themselves with their party’s capture by an uncouth, narcissistic, unprepared, and mercurial bully.
With the exception of France and the UK (for now), the EU and its member states are decidedly unprepared for these risks.
But Americans appear to be psychologically unprepared for China’s effort to use some of its vast dollar reserves to become a global stakeholder in America.
The entire financial system was totally unprepared to deal with the inevitable collapse of the housing and credit bubbles.
But states that specialize in a capability should do so as a part of a “country cluster” to minimize the risk of a nation facing a military challenge that its forces are unprepared to meet.
Europe was, no surprise, unprepared.
Countries with fragile health systems may be able to tackle a given ailment with the help of NGOs and foreign governments, but they are likely to be dangerously unprepared when confronted with unexpected outbreaks of new diseases.
The Kremlin, devoted to its key fetish –Putin’s approval ratings – proved completely unprepared to curtail public spending in the wake of falling state revenues.
Until that money is available, the UN and its many multilateral partners will remain collectively unprepared to aid these post-conflict societies at their moment of greatest political opportunity and economic need.
Suddenly Obamacare, chaos in the White House, wild tweets and political incoherence, as well as a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, for which Trump had appeared unprepared, were utterly forgotten.
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