For example, the Russians, Chinese and European Union are described as "cooperating" with us when, generally, they are doing anything but.
However much Republicans may play up the similarities between China and the Soviet Union, Chinese sabre-rattling does not represent a global challenge comparable to that of the Soviet Union.
Still, the general sense of the market place is that the U.S., European Union and Chinese economies have turned a bit more wobbly in recent weeks.
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Organized labor's position harkens back to the days of early AFL President Samuel Gompers, who came out against a more open immigration policy when he saw how the late-19th-century wave of Chinese immigrants affected his union members' wages.
The AFL-CIO labor union said the Chinese government violates core standards of the International Labor Organization because the workers have no right to collective bargaining.
As the inimitable Mark Steyn has observed, everyone imaginable will be invited to attend - from the Arab League to the European Union to the Chinese and Russians to the UN.
Organized labor--the United Steelworkers union instigated the Chinese tire case at the International Trade Commission--cannot maintain its enthusiasm for the new president if he continues to side with the business community on trade issues.
Last September, the European Union also initiated an investigation into Chinese solar imports in what is seen as the largest anti-dumping probe ever carried out by the Union. (See: Suntech Power Faces The Heat From EU Anti-Dumping Investigation) The investigation is likely to be completed by the end of this year.
In 2012, the United States was the fourth-largest source for Chinese imports, following the European Union, Japan, and South Korea.
The Russians, closely followed by the Chinese, are pushing for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), another UN agency, to be given responsibility for internet governance.
Those issues include potential further easing of U.S. monetary policy (QE4) in upcoming FOMC meetings, the European Union sovereign debt crisis, a Chinese leadership change, and rising tensions between Israel and Hamas.
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He delights in a new Chinese-built, skyscraping headquarters for the African Union, letting him dub the city the continent's diplomatic capital.
The Chinese case follows U.S. and European Union investigation into LCD price-fixing by several Asian companies between 2001 and 2006, when executives were accused of setting up an industry cartel to drive up prices.
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The contrast between the reaction both domestic and international to Chinese repression of dissidents and that of the Soviet Union, for example in Uzbekistan and Tiblisi, testifies to the difference modern communications technology makes where it is present and where it is not.
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The Russian-Chinese cold war ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but new problems began.
In March, the Luxembourg-based European Union General Court dismissed five appeals lodged by Chinese shoemakers against a decision by the E.
The survey said that 97 percent of Chinese enterprises plan to make additional investment in the European Union, with 82 percent set to invest more than their current amounts.
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At the moment, teams at six Chinese universities are getting ready to participate in the American Football Union.
The European Union and China reached an accord on the flow of Chinese textile exports that sets up a new monitoring system.
In addition, World Bank research showed that some 62% of Chinese exports to America and 48% of exports to the European Union faced non-tariff barriers in 1993.
UN-African Union command a Sudanese concession granted more because of Chinese than American pressure.
Malay remains the national language (there are four official languages), but it is not spoken by most Chinese and is largely seen as a relic of Singapore's past union with Malaysia.
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Every year, 1.2m engineers and scientists graduate from Chinese and Indian universities, as many as in America, the European Union and Japan combined and three times the number ten years ago (see chart 7).
African leaders, nearly all of whom are men, have the African Union (AU) headquarters - a stunning building funded by the Chinese in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
An inquiry into the impact of Chinese lanterns on livestock has been welcomed by the leader of the National Farmers' Union in Gloucestershire.
Even the Chinese have benefited from our largesse, through the death of their rival, the Soviet Union.
Whereas the Soviet Union and America built separate economic spheres, globalisation has bound the American and Chinese economies intimately together, to mutual advantage.
The Chinese premiere on Thursday visited EU leaders and told them his country will continue to buy European Union government bonds.
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Following in the footsteps of American solar panel manufacturers, the European Union unveiled plans late last week to introduce protective tariffs aimed at low-cost Chinese products.
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