If western mining companies are eventually squeezed out, the Chinese will be well placed to move in.
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If Western Civilization is in decline, it is not because of economic up-and-comers like China and India.
However, if Western fears of the Islamists did indeed hamstring the aid effort, they might be partially self-fulfilling.
Specifically, he is looking at Hungary, the Ukraine and Lithuania as potential problem areas if Western Europe heads into a recession.
He thinks we could find plenty more oil if Western companies were allowed to explore the world with the same intensity as they have northwestern Oklahoma.
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If Western nations do so, they stand an excellent chance of ending the misrule of the Mussolini-like Butcher of Belgrade, Slobodan Milosevic, and creating conditions essential for peace in the Balkans.
If Western consumers demand organic food among their imports, is that foisting an inappropriate standard upon growers in poor countries, or is it potentially helping to set better standards for farmers' health and welfare in the exporting country?
That risk would amount to something only if deeper trouble in South Korea caused Japanese banks to fold, if Japan's authorities then failed to contain that crisis in their own monetary system, and (assuming the highest degree of contagion) if Western central banks then failed to protect theirs.
If western Europeans are to counter Russian aggressiveness over energy, they must present a united front: for example, by making clear that, should the Russians ever threaten to cut off energy supplies to individual countries, including former parts of the Soviet Union that are not yet in the European Union, their western friends will step in to help.
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The country's current foreign-exchange system, which involves a fixed "official" exchange rate that makes the currency, the kyat, more than 100 times as valuable against the dollar as the black-market rate, is so confusing that many foreign companies have refused to re-enter the country even if Western leaders ease sanctions against Myanmar, the country also known as Burma, as expected later this year.
With the number of HDD companies likely to fall to 3 by next year (with the Western Digital acquisition of Hitachi GST) it will be interesting to see if either Western Digital or Toshiba (the other HDD manufacturer) will introduce their own hybrid HDD products.
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But if the western powers want to stop the Karadzic clan they will have to intervene still more forcibly.
If the Western world faces an era of austerity as debts are paid down, how will that affect day-to-day life?
Few if any Western allies would agree to contribute troops to an Afghan mission that is not within the NATO framework, Western diplomats say.
Because most U.S. banks are recapitalizing their businesses after the debt bubble burst, there are very few, if any western banks who will finance new green energy technologies.
The Macedonian government, headed by Slavs in coalition with Albanians, has told the West that it can hold the lid on ethnic tensions if, and only if, western aid keeps rolling in.
Few, if any, Western allies would consider contributing troops outside the NATO framework, diplomats say.
If colonisation assisted Western hegemony, the end of the colonial era after the second world war set the stage for the rise of China.
It's as if the security of Western civilization hinges upon Los Angeles's return to basketball adequacy.
Aisha admitted that if you believed the Western media, you wouldn't step foot inside Africa.
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The European Commission has officially cleared the acquisition of Hitachi GST by Western Digital if WD will sell off some assets.
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But if R2P is no Western plot, it may not be the perfect way to ward off dreadful acts of mass murder either.
This week, in fact, Vladimir Putin said that the country actually risks going into a recession if the economies of Western Europe deteriorate in the second quarter.
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If people in the Western countries tend to consider social and economic rights less compelling, I think it is because they conceive these rights as rights to be helped, to be supported or to be given something.
"If you are a Western security planner who thinks it's highly likely that there has to be a military confrontation with Iran sooner or later, then keeping Syria off the board is probably one of the things that's quite desirable to do, " he said.
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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?
If they don't work, holders of American and Western European securities may find themselves if they are worth the paper they're printed on.
The fact that the majority of Western aid has been going into a sinkhole is widely recognized -- if rarely publicly acknowledged -- in Western government circles and multilateral institutions.
Some of those suspected of wrongdoing might be liable under Western law, if they have dual citizenship.
His guidelines must be followed if the substantial amounts of Western assistance to this region now being contemplated are not to be wasted.
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