This has been made possible not because of -- just because of the longstanding partnership between individual countries in this region and the United States, and more than three decades of partnership between the U.S. and ASEAN -- I think also due to his personal leadership and his commitment to reinvigorate engagement with the region.
At the Paris HLM, the American delegation should make it clear that, unless individual countries begin enforcing the existing COCOM controls, the United States will have no choice but to impose sanctions on their companies engaged in such breaches of Western security.
Since NATO, the European Union, and individual European nations provide significant amounts of foreign assistance in countries where the United States also has aid programs, the Department of State, USAID, and other agencies shall seek to intensify cooperation with international partners to optimize program impact and to avoid duplication.
So far, though, the United States has asked Nato countries for help on an individual basis and not requested aid from the alliance as a bloc.
And obviously in the United States and many developed countries, per capita, per individual, they are already using much more energy than each individual here in China.
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