Even if American investors are content to continue this charade, the Chinese are not.
Even if American capitalism is the best way to get rich, nothing in the logic of globalisation forces other countries to adopt the American way if they would rather be different and accept the cost.
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Even if American freight carriers were to copy El Al, Israel's airline, and hold goods for a day for security checks, it would not greatly erode the advantages of air freight over other means of transport.
More to the point, what would be the strategic implications if it will not happen in the near to medium term, even if American and other Western business dealings and investment might encourage political as well as economic liberalization in China over the longer term?
Years of American unreliability have greatly diminished U.S. credibility and clout in the region, and -- even if American leadership is brought to bear -- there is a considerable risk that a new "peace plan" could emerge from this weekend's summit meeting, establishing a de jure requirement to disarm the Contras.
So even if the American dollar were to slide against the euro or the yen, some Asian currencies might follow it down.
Even if the American election itself seems inscrutable to Japanese voters, the result -- a leader who is in office for at least four years -- looks good.
Moreover, even if most American spammers are somehow shut down, overseas ones will have few inhibitions, out of reach of American law (though Microsoft has already gone after one or two junk e-mail senders in other countries).
The Supreme Court has previously held that alien combatants may be detained for the duration of hostilities even if they are American citizens.
But the Tropic Test Centre plans to stay in Panama even if all the American troops go home: it would turn itself into a private-sector corporation, ready to do tests for whoever might hire it.
After all, what is France for if not to represent an elegant, pleasurable alternative to the American way, even if it does so as most of the country munches its burgers and goggles at its trashy television?
He says that would be true even if every able-bodied American took a health-care job.
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Even if Russia caves in to American pressure, Iran, for many reasons, will not abandon the project.
But when the MFAH gathered 35 scholars to discuss creating an archive, everyone realized that they couldn't do a complete archive of Latin American art even if the start date for artists' inclusion was 1900.
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The old distinction between producer and consumer countries is being blurred, and like others in Latin America Bolivia's government cannot now afford to turn a blind eye to the coca issue, even if it could afford the American displeasure that that would earn it.
Even if the Chinese are not turning American in their car-using habits, their new love of motoring has worrying implications for the environment.
Specifically, the CMA analysis cites evidence of the ease with which foreign operatives can obtain coveted Confidential Business Information if given even limited access to American competitors' facilities.
The study found that America's appetite for foreign goods is so much stronger than the rest of the world's desire for American goods that even if the other rich countries raised their growth rates to match America's, they would still sell more to America than it would sell to them.
And, even more to Ms. Elliot's substantive analysis of the sharia threat, if Muslim America and American policymakers are afraid to even talk about sharia as a threat, at least as it exists in the Muslim world, how can we know that the Muslim Brotherhood, Gulf oil-financed Salafists, and Iranian-backed mosques and madrassas in this country won't soon make inroads by implanting the Muslim world's understanding of sharia?
One must get value even if this is a remake of an American Icon!
Indeed, at one point, it seemed as if the French were even outpacing their American rivals.
It could do even more damage to the American economy if as is all too likely China decides to retaliate.
These examples and others explain how, even if the Europeans won the day, American modernists would soon supplant them.
An ABC poll last month found that 53% of Americans would oppose negotiating with the Taliban even if they agreed to suspend attacks on American and Afghan forces.
Cuba is not yet a member of those instruments of American imperialism, but even if it joined, would Castro agree to restructure his island according to the dictates of the World Bank?
They may be persuaded to endorse the American-led administration, even if there is a price to be paid.
As I will discuss in a moment, such a Sino-American conflict may be unavoidable even if we have substantially weaned our economy from its present dependence on foreign energy.
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Even if a commitment is maintained, a request for American military intervention should not be routinely honored.
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Mr. Panetta struggled with the uncertainty, one official said, but concluded the American public would back an operation even if the odds were only 50-50.
So even if Japanese have less to spend and European and American buyers are staying on the sidelines, other Asians still have money -- and a willingness to part with it.
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