Results for “Foreign Policy”

…Stanford University. Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Gen. Karl Eikenberry (Ret.) is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow, Director of the US-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at Stanford Unive...

…he revisions to the FIRPTA and REIT rules discussed above represent a potentially large expansion of the incentives for foreign investment in U.S. real property interests, especially for foreign pension funds. Sponsors of U.S. real property investment funds and foreign investors...

…litating payment. Examples of “Routine Governmental Action” An action which is ordinarily and commonly performed by a foreign official in— "obtaining permits, licenses, or other official documents to qualify a person to do business ina foreign country; "processing governmenta...

… PM: fo) Helmsley Hotel UNDP Administrator. fe) Location: bilateral booth at the UN.(Walking distance) fo) President+ Foreign Minister + Environment Minister + AG + Ambassador Rasheed + PR Depart Hotel to President Obama’s Reception President Obama’s Reception o Location: Sta...

…the interesting part. The press release implies that natural gas and renewable energy can reduce American dependence on foreign oil (“end” is the word used). This is an appealing proposition, particularly with Brent oil prices now 5 times higher than natural gas prices on a BTU b...

/ BARAK / 15 By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises about quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, abo...

…that Chinese officials revived an old tactic that the Communist Party had employed before the revolution—using friendly foreigners and pro-PRC Chinese immigrants to publicize China’s story. Chinese officials called this tactic of localizing the work of foreign propaganda, the “b...

…ard landing. However, the country’s debt levels have risen rapidly, the pace of capital outflows has picked up, and net foreign Exhibit 27: Credit-to-GDP Gap Across Economies China’s gap reached the high-risk threshold in June 2012 and has continued to rise. Credit-to-GDP Gap (...

…ORE SUBSIDIARIES OF THE FUND OR OTHER ENTITIES IN WHICH THE FUND INVESTS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY MAY QUALIFY AS “PASSIVE FOREIGN INVESTMENT COMPANIES” OR “CONTROLLED FOREIGN CORPORATIONS” FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, WHICH COULD RESULT IN ADVERSE TAX CONSEQUENCES TO INVES...

…itical independence; the disbanding and disarming of all Lebanese and non- Lebanese militias; and the withdrawal of all foreign troops. After Israel’s full withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, the only remaining foreign troops were Syrian. Immediately after the resolution was adopted...

/ BARAK / 15 By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises about quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, abo...

81 From 1980, Beijing added to its stable of foreign-facing propaganda publications—such as Beijing Review, China Reconstructs, and China Pictorial—by starting or reopening more than twenty periodicals, including the English-language China Daily, the overseas edition of the Peop...

…IA and FBI as members of its board or advisors.* State and Local Politics Many states do not have prohibitions against foreign contributions in local races.*? One of the most notable examples of an individual contributor comes from Virginia, where in 2013 and 2014, Wang Wenlian...

…its elite members in particular. The mission of engaging and influencing nonethnic Chinese audiences, individuals, and foreign institutions is assigned to other specialized Chinese entities—such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of...

…Burnett action. In reviewing this declara- tion, the Court gives “great weight to any extrinsic submissions made by the foreign defendant[ ] regarding the scope of [his] official responsibilities.” Leutwyler, 184 F.Supp.2d at 287 (internal quotation marks omitted). Prince Turki e...