And if there are several competitors, what does it matter whether a few are fully foreign-owned?

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And please note: Foreign exchange reserves cannot, as a practical matter, be used to create domestic-currency growth.

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Yu Myung-hwan, the foreign minister, has said South Korea would take the matter to the UN Security Council for additional sanctions if there were hard evidence that North Korea was involved.

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She added that the Foreign Office has raised the matter with the Chinese twice at ambassadorial level, once at deputy-head-of-mission level, and that the consular director has also raised it with senior Chinese consular officials visiting London.

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And the nuclear deal, an example of the sort of highfalutin foreign policy that bothers only a few high-powered ministers, journalists and others in India, may not matter much.

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