Sentences with phrase «foreign policies of this administration»

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The Iran deal is thought to be the crowning foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration, and experts have speculated previously that his determination not to compromise the deal affected his policy on Syria.

Yet Macron offered momentary comfort to foreign policy veterans of past administrations — the «establishment» Trump has disdained — who fear for the future of institutions such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.

The Trump administration's rigid stance on immigration policy — in particular its tightening of restrictions around H - 1B visas for skilled foreign workers — has created a unique opportunity for countries to lure away top technology talent that would otherwise seek employment in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the U.S..

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Asian markets have had a good run this year, shrugging off jitters faced at the end of last year over the potential trade and foreign policy implications the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump would have on the region.

Ironically enough, amid fears that the Trump administration would spook global markets with a wave of protectionist policies, foreign regulators are the ones landing the first high - profile, cross-border blows.

Let's fast - forward 20 minutes from now to a meeting with» secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo and national security advisor John Bolton, he said, referring to two of the administration's foreign policy hawks.

«And it serves as a prime example of this administration's ineffective foreign policy that has left America weaker in the eyes of the world.»

«At the conclusion of the meeting senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets the following Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand:

His emphasis on hard power and intelligence - gathering as the primary means of pursuing Canada's interests is now echoed by the current administration in Washington, which has gutted the State Department, allocated record amounts of funding to the military and appointed military - minded men in key foreign policy positions.

«It could bring some control to the Wild West of the third parties operating on these platforms,» said Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under the Obama administration.

It is, of course, illegal for an incoming Administration to discuss policies with foreign officials before taking office, as it implies authority they do not yet have.

«I think from the administration's point of view, this is an opportunity to make a very major pronouncement on its foreign policy and its European policy,» said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a former deputy secretary general of NATO.

WASHINGTON / BERLIN (Reuters)- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence heads to Europe this week to meet with allies seeking clarity on the Trump administration's foreign policy strategy and its stance toward Russia after the resignation of the top White House national security aide.

«Now with Pompeo and Bolton, if it can last long enough, there's a chance to mold another generation of conservative foreign - policy types with real experience, a real network, and what does that mean for the next Republican administration?

Bitcoin said on its homepage on July 29 that «senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand.»

Mike Pompeo has swapped the no - profile, cloak - and - dagger world of covert espionage for the life of a buttoned - down diplomat, representing the public face of the Trump administration's foreign policy.

«This administration's proudest foreign policy boast is the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

It is the administrations controlling the world's most powerful militaries that create terrorism through aggressive and imperialistic foreign policies which attempt to subjugate citizens of other countries.

Created during the Clinton administration in 1998, the IRF exists as part of a larger American foreign policy strategy of promoting international religious freedom.

In a widely read and discussed essay in the Summer 2002 issue of Policy Review, Robert Kagan analyzed the increasingly rancorous relationship between the United States and Europe in terms favored by the so - called neoconservatives who have exercised such a decisive (and controversial) influence on the foreign policy of the Bush Administration since September 11,Policy Review, Robert Kagan analyzed the increasingly rancorous relationship between the United States and Europe in terms favored by the so - called neoconservatives who have exercised such a decisive (and controversial) influence on the foreign policy of the Bush Administration since September 11,policy of the Bush Administration since September 11, 2001.

But one can hardly imagine a more damning indictment of President Obama and certain unnamed «senior administration officials» on his foreign policy team.

It is turning into a combination of ideological tics and irritable gestures even as the worst actors gain power.Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration is shifting the U.S.'s foreign policy strategy from a Pax Americana model (where the U.S. uses military force to impose order) to one of offshore balancing (where the U.S. strategically sides with one local power or another while keeping U.S. commitments to a minimum).

He is a faithful member of the American Muslim Brotherhood, and we have opperatives in his administration influencing domestic, law enforcment, military and foreign policy.

Israel When it comes to foreign policy, look for convention speakers to try outdo one another in pledging support for the Jewish State - and in railing against Obama for what they'll allege are his administration's shabby treatment of a key American ally.

The Bush administration's grand design for foreign policy, spelled out last September in a document titled «The National Security Strategy,» declares that the U.S. will exercise the responsibilities of the dominant power in international politics in order to resist terrorism and rogue states and to shape a global ethos of human dignity and prosperity.

Since then, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, reducing the role of national boundaries in economic matters has been the primary foreign policy agenda of the United States.

The administration is required to provide information to Congress concerning, among other things, «the nature of the refugee situation,» «an analysis of the conditions within the countries from which [the refugees] come,» «the extent to which other countries will admit and assist the resettlement of such refugees» and — not least — «the impact of the participation of the United States in the resettlement of such refugees on the foreign policy interests of the United States» [emphasis added].

In the tenure of two administrations, our foreign policy has passed from adolescence — the Wilsonian fancy that America could remake the world in its own image — to senile renunciation of world leadership, without ever having passed through maturity.

As Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.

With the concurrent replacement of National Security Advisor HR McMaster by foreign policy «hawk» John Bolton this leaves the «moderate wing» of the Trump administration reduced to Defense Secretary General Jim Mattis.

Without providing an explicit blueprint for the Obama administration's second term foreign policy agenda, Kerry situated State Department activities within the present strategic context and hewed to the current war fatigue of US politicians.

It seems the resurgence has more to do with the limited government and isolationist elements of American conservatism, a group that Walter Russell Mead labels as Jeffersonian, and which is more sceptical of the grand foreign policy visions supported by the Bush administration.

He obviously dislikes previous administrations» focus on multilateral concerted effort and likes the idea of being able to take credit for a dramatic breakthrough on a problem that has long vexed US foreign policy.

After the attacks on the twin towers, liberals dusted off his ideas on a measured foreign policy as an antidote to the Bush administration's use of «preventative war».

President - elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, met Monday in Washington, D.C. with a team of national security experts — including Rep. Peter King and veterans of President George W. Bush's administration — to discuss foreign policy ahead of his confirmation hearings, the Seaford congressman said.

Obama's opening to Cuba, negotiated in secret with the help of the Vatican and which culminated in a presidential trip to Havana in March 2016, was regarded by his administration as one of its signature foreign policy achievements, ending an embargo of more than a half century, which had failed to produce a softening of the communist regime.

One Democratic party source close to the administration told the New Statesman: «Your assumptions about the beliefs of Obama's foreign policy team are correct - there are concerns about Cameron among top members of the team.»

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the United States of destabilizing the world, airing a list of grievances over the Trump administration's foreign Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the United States of destabilizing the world, airing a list of grievances over the Trump administration's foreign foreign policy.

Romney harped on Clinton, calling the foreign policy she and the Obama administration pursued during her time as secretary of state a «monumental bust.»

It was like a presidential news conference in the waning days of the Nixon administration, where Tricky Dick tried to talk foreign policy but the media only wanted to talk Watergate.

SOP's Liz Benjamin reported that newly - minted Rep. Bob Turner is keeping up his critique of the Obama administration's foreign policy, moving from Israel (a major issue in the NY - 9 special election, thanks to Ed Koch) to Japan.

In that case Obama would suddenly need to line up seven more Republican votes from GOP freshmen who are generally very skeptical of both the Obama administration's foreign policy in general and the treaty in particular.

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There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

In «The Final Year,» Greg Barker offers an inside look at the Obama administration and its foreign - policy team in the last 12 months of his presidency.

Cerf spent his early years in Washington, D.C., where his father, with a Yale Ph.D. in political science, worked for a foreign policy organization used by Congress before joining the Kennedy administration as a deputy assistant secretary of commerce for international relations.

The questions Paul has raised during his filibuster about the Obama administration's abuse of power (and that of predecessor George W. Bush) in the foreign policy (and even domestic intelligence) arenas, especially in the use of drones to murder innocent lives in Afghanistan, are legitimate.

Opponents of the Bush administration's foreign policies might have reason to think so.

The value of foreign investments may be affected by changes in exchange control regulations, application of foreign tax laws (including withholding tax), changes in governmental administration or economic or monetary policy (in this country or abroad), or changed circumstances in dealings between nations.