Double down on economic pressure; target regime corruption & repression.
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So the effectiveness of economic pressure may continue to wane.
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Is it military action, economic pressure, or some other approach?
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And which governments are most vulnerable to US economic pressure?
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The economic pressure is building on North Carolina as well.
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China has also stepped up economic pressure on North Korea.
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Was it the mix of economic pressure and military threats?
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It would put huge economic pressure on the Iranians themselves.
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CHINA STATS BUREAU SAYS: DOWNWARD ECONOMIC PRESSURE STILL RELATIVELY LARGE
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In the meantime our campaign of economic pressure will continue.
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And I'm sure they are under tremendous economic pressure themselves.
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But it's Iranian daily life that's suffering from the economic pressure.
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Q. China could easily apply more economic pressure on North Korea.
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Trump even suggested easing some of the economic pressure on Iran.
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President Trump last night threatening to amp up economic pressure on China.
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But Cuba's communist regime has survived 60 years of American economic pressure.
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Economic pressure and sanctions have begun to bite, making Kim vulnerable economically.
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And second is to relax the economic pressure as early as possible.
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The modern era of agribusiness has placed immense economic pressure on farmers.
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Instead, it's the ordinary Iranians who are suffering from the economic pressure.
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Environment, opportunity, economic pressure, a piece of bad luck, a wrong friend.
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But both leaders are under economic pressure to come to an agreement.
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"The focus on building political and economic pressure is sensible," he said.
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What are US policy options for putting economic pressure on North Korea?
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Trump added that economic pressure would be maintained unless Iran's leadership changed course.
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It also put tremendous economic pressure on the Soviet Union to keep pace.
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The biggest threat the U.S. can make is economic pressure, through additional sanctions.
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The Trump administration's strategy still centers on economic pressure, rather than military measures.
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He made it clear that he intends to increase economic pressure on Iran.
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De-escalating the military confrontation while leaving the economic pressure campaign in place.
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But the world's second-largest economy has been under increasing economic pressure recently.
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China can also employ non-economic pressure tactics to make Trump rethink his tariffs.
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A U.S. exit could unravel the accord and increase economic pressure on ordinary Iranians.
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But seldom have they been under as much economic pressure as they are today.
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His administration believes that renewed economic pressure will turn ordinary Iranians against their leaders.
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Experts fear that Trump's patience for his economic pressure strategy may be wearing thin.
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Guatemala had refused to sign the deal as well, until relenting under economic pressure Friday.
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Several ships, submarines, and has put enormous pressure on Korea as well as economic pressure.
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More troubling than the jingoistic outbursts was the concerted economic pressure piled on the company.
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Pence has repeated his talking points claiming that economic pressure will force Pyongyang to capitulate.
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Under Carstens, the central bank has kept inflation at record lows despite external economic pressure.
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Second, keep economic pressure on North Korea, yet not enough to pose an existential threat.
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Some sort of "social pressure" will have to be substituted for the present economic pressure.
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But the administration prefers to pursue its strategy of diplomacy and economic pressure — for now.
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While a small step, a revival of this group suggested an easing of economic pressure.
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Others have suggested that the best way to influence Poland's behavior is through economic pressure.
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Economic pressure has also been brought to bear on companies that depend on revenue from China.
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We do not expect the SPV will in any way impact our maximum economic pressure campaign.
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Other department stores are facing the same challenges, and many have caved under the economic pressure.
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Trump has never viewed diplomacy as a realistic option, and doesn't think economic pressure is working.
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Administration officials said on Thursday there remains ample room for additional economic pressure on North Korea.
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Verification of dismantlement and economic pressure are critical in fighting North Korea's illicit trade, he says.
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CHINA WILL RESIST DOWNWARD ECONOMIC PRESSURE, NEED EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE FULL-YEAR EMPLOYMENT TARGET -STATS BUREAU
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China has taken some steps to put economic pressure on North Korea, including suspending coal imports.
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Despite mounting economic pressure, Australia could pass the foreign interference legislation as early as this week.
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It can, of course, go further than the coal embargo to increase economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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His administration smartly built on the economic pressure and isolation campaign initiated by President Barack Obama.
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It stepped up the pace this year as economic pressure to open up the country mounted.
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The U.S. began increasing economic pressure on Russia after its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
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In particular, they have sought to apply economic pressure through China, North Korea's only major ally.
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Australia's prime minister said "maximum economic pressure" was the only way to deal with North Korea.
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Nevertheless, analysts expect increasing economic pressure will prompt the central bank to take it even lower.
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Instead, he pushed for the US to keep the economic pressure on and crush the regime.
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The killing of a prominent member of a loathed religious minority deflects attention from impending economic pressure.
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The collective strategy of imposing maximum diplomatic and economic pressure through sanctions on North Korea is working.
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The campaign of economic pressure that both Bolton and Pompeo have supported have inflamed tensions with Iran.
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The Wisconsin Republican pushed Trump to keep up the economic pressure campaign carried out through international sanctions.
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Washington has repeatedly stressed the importance of keeping "maximum" economic pressure on the North until it denuclearizes.
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The previous test compelled Washington to accelerate its global campaign to exert economic pressure on North Korea.
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This gives students who aren't traveling some extra cash to spend which takes economic pressure off them.
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"The diplomatic pressure has worked, the economic pressure and the pressure on assets have worked," Guaido said.
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But it is hardly a giant on the world stage, immune to any form of economic pressure.
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These latest sanctions, then, are meant to put even more economic pressure on Maduro and his cronies.
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He called for the North to become more self-reliant so it could withstand the economic pressure.
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As a result, the administration is once again ratcheting up economic pressure on Pyongyang and its enablers.
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With that decision to jettison the nuclear deal, President Trump began ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran.
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Adapting to that change will be hard: The news cycle is relentless, the economic pressure is profound.
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Testifying before Congress in October 2011, Mr. Gerecht counseled that Iran would never respond to economic pressure.
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He also accused Washington of trying to use the economic pressure to provoke street protests in Iran.
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If, however, China will not respond to economic pressure, then there is nothing left but military options.
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The Arab allies are applying many economic pressure points, including barring Qatari flagged ships from entering their waters.
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One solution, as Trump has outlined it, will be to coerce Mexico to do it with economic pressure.
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It is unclear what moved the president to ramp up economic pressure on Erdogan's government over Brunson's detention.
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The Trump administration plans to ramp up economic pressure on Cuba's military and intelligence services, the official said.
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Over time, all that really means is that the economic pressure of US sanctions will continue to build.
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But we're going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea.
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Watch more from VICELAND: Then again, the economic pressure might affect kids, in the form of academic pressure.
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China, North Korea's only major ally, is critical to the effort to keep economic pressure on North Korea.
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But he also made sure to note that China would survive mounting economic pressure from the United States.
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"The economic pressure is working," said Asli Aydintasbas, a senior fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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The Trump administration has escalated economic pressure, backed by threats of military force, to deal with North Korea.
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Studios have multiple explanations (some would say excuses), but one big reason involves a lack of economic pressure.
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Even if he wasn't facing that economic pressure, saving the vaquita represents an opportunity for the new president.
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The sanctions are part of a U.S. campaign to raise economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
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But some observers fear Trump's increased pressure on China will backfire, provoking retaliation that deepens the economic pressure.
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A protester surnamed Chuen said she hoped the act would put economic pressure on the Hong Kong government.
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The West hopes that amped-up economic pressure on the nation will bring Kim to the negotiating table.
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It is Tehran, not Washington and not Riyadh, that finds the current situation of severe economic pressure intolerable.
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China on Thursday reported trade data that was better than expected despite mounting economic pressure from elevated U.S. tariffs.
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On Thursday, China reported trade data that was better-than-expected despite mounting economic pressure from elevated U.S. tariffs.
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The Trump administration also plans to ramp up economic pressure on Cuba's military and intelligence services, the official said.
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This would create economic pressure on oddsmakers that the AGA says "would drive consumers back to the black market."
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Relatively low economic engagement with China means "economic pressure would be less effective than elsewhere in Asean," he said.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday called on American allies to help impose economic pressure on Iran.
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"With severe economic pressure ahead of us, the protests will not die easily," said an Iranian diplomat in Europe.
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There are legitimate concerns in Beijing that too much economic pressure on North Korea will trigger dangerous instability there.
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Mr. Trump's aides talk instead of an "integrated strategy" of escalating military and economic pressure to force diplomatic engagement.
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The U.S. has tried to get China — Pyongyang's only major ally — to apply as much economic pressure as possible.
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Trump has genuinely increased the economic pressure on North Korea through United Nations sanctions, and the pinch may increase.
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However, reviving it could complicate U.S. efforts to persuade countries around the world to maintain economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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Russia can veto UN resolutions, is relatively immune to economic pressure, and can't be directly attacked without risking catastrophe.
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Lam was flanked by business leaders as she told the media that downward economic pressure had hit like a "tsunami".
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He added that there isn't much sign that Washington's economic pressure on Tehran will actually dampen the IRGC's regional ambitions.
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Saudi Arabia is facing economic pressure from other sources, however, making this week's investment conference pivotal for the kingdom's development.
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The push is the latest effort by social activists to use social media to apply economic pressure to force change.
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But Kim's willingness to negotiate seriously would depend on continued economic pressure, which required sustained Chinese and better Russian cooperation.
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On Monday, Trump spoke to his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, committing to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea.
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And that was at a time when Russia was under far less political and economic pressure than it is today.
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"It is essential that the international community work together to increase economic pressure on North Korea," Billingslea told the committee.
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"What we've now got to do is not relent on the economic pressure until that goal is achieved," he said.
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His administration has so far focused on diplomatic and economic pressure against Maduro while steering clear of any military action.
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Economic pressure on many Egyptians has intensified since authorities enacted reforms and austerity measures including the devaluation since late 2016.
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China's willingness to put economic pressure on North Korea is critical to pushing Pyongyang to give up its nuclear ambitions.
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The Trump administration has vowed to maintain robust economic pressure until North Korea takes real steps toward full, verifiable denuclearization.
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"There is a lot of economic pressure to grow," said David Lucas, an analyst at Autodata Corporation, a market researcher.
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Officials said on Thursday that they planned to create a special post to coordinate an economic pressure campaign on Iran.
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In the fall, he spent weeks praising President Xi Jinping of China for putting increased economic pressure on North Korea.
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Unlike China, Iran can hardly counteract American economic pressure by putting its own sanctions or tariffs on the United States.
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Civil insurrections work better than economic pressure in breaking dictatorships, but only if the state is unwilling to repress them.
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China and Iran have sought closer relations in recent years, especially as American sanctions have increased economic pressure on Tehran.
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Experts say it is more likely to put diplomatic or economic pressure on the Yameen government than send its military.
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China's feeling economic pressure, too, and that -- coupled with domestic economic issues -- is leading to lower economic growth for China.
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Turnbull argued on Wednesday that "maximum economic pressure" against Pyongyang would be the only way to deal with the regime.
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Trump has attempted to leverage China, North Korea's only major ally, to apply more economic pressure on the isolated regime.
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Despite the economic pressure, North Korea has shown few signs of backing down from its aggressive rhetoric and weapons development.
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The Trump administration has vowed to maintain robust economic pressure until North Korea takes real steps toward full, verifiable denuclearization.
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"We do not expect the SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) will in any way impact our maximum economic pressure campaign," he added.
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According to a source close to the White House, administration officials have considered further measures to put economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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"The economic pressure that all these guys are finding on this model, it is kind of a slow drip," he said.
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The risk consultancy sees increased chances of a coup as economic pressure potentially yields inflation, slower growth and higher borrowing costs.
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The Countering Russian Hostilities Act of 2017 is the most likely vehicle for congressional action to increase economic pressure on Moscow.
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"By reimposing the sanctions that were lifted under the JCPOA, that will bring economic pressure to bear on Iran," said Hook.
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Today, people generally still think the collapse of Maduro's regime is imminent, through economic pressure and coercion and enticement of officials.
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In contrast to previous administrations, Trump and his advisors recognize that economic pressure and reinforcing our allies may not be enough.
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"The Trump administration believes that there are protests on the ground that are a response to the economic pressure," Phillip said.
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As the economic pressure mounts, it is Rouhani's moderate government -- not the Supreme Leader -- that is taking much of the heat.
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Sanctions and economic pressure may have helped induce Mr. Kim to engage, but they will be an obstacle to further progress.
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Right now, the United States is committed to keeping economic pressure in place, while avoiding an outbreak of direct armed conflict.
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Iran appears to have made the strategic decision (not surprising) to resist economic pressure and respond asymmetrically, not directly against us.
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President Trump moved to put new economic pressure on Iran in retaliation for what American officials have called acts of aggression.
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The U.S. Embassy in Germany said it did not expect INSTEX to blunt its effort to pile economic pressure on Tehran.
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While rattling sabers, Mr. Trump for the moment has stuck to a strategy of increasing economic pressure and strengthening regional solidarity.
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As cases start to come down due to harsh measures, there might be political and economic pressure to lift them prematurely.
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Maintain the economic pressure increased this month through a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions on North Korea.
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Trump insisted there was "no deal" made for Brunson's release, and that the economic pressure was sufficient to force Turkey's hand.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been receiving political and economic pressure from China to abandon the missile defense system.
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They have aimed to pressure North Korea through international sanctions and other economic pressure from China, North Korea's only major ally.
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Last year, two Princeton economists reported record suicides and drug abuse among whites, an indication of rising social and economic pressure.
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It could be the last test of whether economic pressure can force North Korea to reverse course on its nuclear program.
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Trump's supporters still largely back his tough stance against China, but the economic pressure of this trade war isn't sustainable indefinitely.
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To get off the escalatory ladder of military escalation and to build economic pressure to force change in Pyongyang, Washington should embrace both additional economic pressure and China's so-called "freeze for freeze" proposal in which North Korea would suspend nuclear and ballistic missile tests and the U.S. would suspend large-scale joint military exercises with South Korea.
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Instead, he has hoped that increased economic pressure would draw Iran back to the negotiating table to craft a stiffer nuclear agreement.
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US Iran policy exposed Trump has banked on Iran's clerical leaders being forced back to the negotiating table by relentless economic pressure.
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Trump's hardline position, combined with increasing economic pressure, sends a message to the North that this time, the United States means business.
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"We are aware that our diplomatic and economic pressure, the timing and the pace of that affects Venezuela's oil industry," Hook said.
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That requires new laws and, more important, political and economic pressure to follow them in spirit as well as by the letter.
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King William's War in upstate New York and Canada forced an influx of refugees into Salem, causing economic pressure and social unrest.
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Why it matters: Abe's visit comes amid Iranian escalation — of both its regional operations and nuclear program — and intensifying U.S. economic pressure.
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These are very early days, and the policy has serious risks -- will Pyongyang, for example, respond to economic pressure with military adventures?
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But the sheer number of countries that have been willing to flout UN sanctions reveals the limits of Trump's economic pressure strategy.
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The legislation would give the administration discretion, over time, to ramp up economic pressure on countries that do not abate currency manipulation.
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Moreover, OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers are facing severe economic pressure and budget shortfalls, increasing the urgency of pumping up prices.
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It is time we apply that same economic pressure as a nation to countries that continue to allow religious minorities to suffer.
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On their own, those measures hardly amount to a robust policy, so Washington should continue to escalate its economic pressure on Iran.
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The administration has slapped stringent sanctions on Iran's oil industry, metals sector, Revolutionary Guard and the supreme leader to maximize economic pressure.
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He noted that while the U.S. continues to place economic pressure on North Korea, Pyongyang has continued to try to dodge sanctions.
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Last week, the Palestinian Authority cut the salaries of Fatah employees in Gaza in an attempt to put economic pressure on Hamas.
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In the 1970s, what prompted the industry to even consider better rendering of darker colors was economic pressure from Kodak's professional accounts.
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The U.S. can build a campaign of economic pressure and incentives with confidence that an expansive community of nations will uphold it.
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"We do not expect the SPV will in any way impact our maximum economic pressure campaign," a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said.
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With the country facing increasing economic pressure -- which could have global ramifications -- many cities are attempting to return to something like normality.
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He said he hopes that U.S. officials will impose "some maximum economic pressure" on Huawei and fellow China-based telecom giant ZTE.
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The Trump administration has conducted a policy of maximum economic pressure on Iran, believing its leaders would simply cave; they have not.
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Clooney said he hoped that the Trump administration would consider sanctions, and cited its economic pressure campaign on Iran as an example.
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Iran's increasingly bellicose behavior is less of a response to U.S. economic pressure than it is an assessment of U.S. strategic will.
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PA to renew their licences or have their operations suspended, a move that placed economic pressure on Europe to stop Haftar's offensive.
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With economic pressure from insurance companies and the threat of withheld federal dollars for highways, states were looking for ways to change.
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On Tuesday, Markey said economic pressure has to be coupled with talks to convince Kim the United States is not a threat.
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The Amazon stores about 10 years' worth of human-produced emissions in its biomass, but there's tremendous economic pressure to exploit it.
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And the media is under economic pressure, with newspapers in particular cutting back on staffing and coverage due to an eroding advertising base.
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Classic examples include greed, fear, social or economic pressure, skewed performance incentives, silos, inadequate reporting mechanisms and failure to integrate ethics into recruiting.
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Differences exist within the Trump team, but all agree that an Iran under severe economic pressure is better than an Iran that's not.
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For these people, the same challenges of stagnant wages, rising living costs, and constant economic pressure are shared with communities across the planet.
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Months later King Abdullah said he faced economic pressure to tone down his opposition to Mr Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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The United States has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda.
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Trump is pushing China, the rogue state's most important ally, to apply more economic pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear program.
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John Delury of Yonsei University in Seoul says that if China thought economic pressure was useful, it would already be applying it unilaterally.
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Meantime, experts said more could be done to apply economic pressure on North Korea but it would involve sanctioning Chinese entities, including banks.
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But a number of lawmakers said they were skeptical that the administration's strategy of diplomatic and economic pressure had any chance of working.
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Trump has cranked up economic pressure on Erdoğan in an effort to free Andrew Brunson, an American pastor detained in Turkey since 2016.
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Putin's own approval ratings have dropped significantly so he's going to try to forestall any additional economic pressure, including any new US sanctions.
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Beijing is under increasing social and economic pressure to deal with the chronic hazardous air that blankets the north and threatens people's health.
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The second, manifest in the recent sanctions package passed by the House, is to broadly coerce Turkey into better behavior with economic pressure.
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Trump has cranked up economic pressure on Erdoğan in an effort to free Andrew Brunson, an American pastor detained in Turkey since 2900.
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And what about companies working in the West Bank that succumb to the economic pressure of boycotts or divestment and move their operations?
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In recent months, the U.S and our allies have notched several successes in the global campaign to put economic pressure on North Korea.
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It is focused instead on ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran in an apparent effort to force Tehran to also violate the deal.
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"I think the opposite is true now," Dubowitz said, noting that Trump appeared to favor tougher economic pressure on Iran, not military action.
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Among their arguments was that Mexico had done nothing to solve the problem and that it was unlikely to act without economic pressure.
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"I think you're going to continue to see increasing economic pressure not to replace I.F.E., particularly on the shorter-haul fleets," he said.
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Nice going, Mr. President, China thanks you, because these countries will be much more vulnerable to Chinese economic pressure with our presence diminished.
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The potential for such a limited agreement has fueled private deliberations within the White House on options for escalating economic pressure on China.
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Tillerson, along with Secretary of Defense James Mattis, has pushed for an approach exerting maximum economic pressure and diplomatic isolation on North Korea.
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Economic pressure on Russia has increased since 2015, when western countries hit it with sanctions over its involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.
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But in light of the Trump administration's campaign of maximum economic pressure against Iran, it has reached a new and potentially dangerous pitch.
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The official echoed Trump's public assessment that the US strategy is working and the Chinese will likely cave in under mounting economic pressure.
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Future economic assistance to the country should also be made dependent upon that condition being fulfilled, and economic pressure must attend diplomatic efforts.
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And so there'll be an escalation of economic pressure, again, short of a policy shift or negotiations that lead to a policy shift.
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In the face of Iranian escalation, Washington has continued to prioritize economic pressure, occasionally supplemented with diplomatic initiatives, cyber operations and troop deployments.
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The combination of his diplomatic opening, economic pressure and a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear enrichment program drove Iran to the negotiating table.
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But nonetheless, the sheer number of countries that have been willing to flout UN sanctions reveals the limits of Trump's economic pressure strategy.
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After more than a year of fierce US economic pressure that has battered its economy, Iran is not caving, as some US officials hoped.
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None of North Korea, Iran and China have reacted to massive US economic pressure by abandoning what they see as their core national interests.
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The Trump administration wants to maximise economic pressure on the Iranian regime, and is threatening sanctions on international companies doing business with the country.
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BDS — a movement which began in 2005 — calls for groups to apply economic pressure to Israel to achieve Palestinian independence in the Middle East.
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The two appeared more affirmative when it came to the possibility of "ratcheting up" economic pressure on Syria and Russia, as Johnson described it.
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The only way for Qatar to resist Saudi diplomatic and economic pressure would be for the United States to intervene with its Saudi allies.
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Scandinavia continues to wait for a European-wide solution to relieve the enormous economic pressure the refugees are putting on its generous welfare states.
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There have been cases in the past when governments have moderated their policy in order to eliminate the immense economic pressure on their shoulders.
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Ratcheting up military and economic pressure on North Korea does not change Kim's calculus that nuclear weapons are the best option for regime survival.
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Lebanon hasn't been under this much economic pressure since its bloody 15-year civil war ended in 1990 and left an estimated 120,000 killed.
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The report says the sanctions would be aimed at placing diplomatic and economic pressure, specifically focused on Chinese banks conducting business with North Korea.
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The sanctions against Gaza were an attempt to put economic pressure on Hamas to relinquish control of the coastal enclave to the Palestinian Authority.
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Generations of American political leaders and government officials have sought and successfully developed more informal mechanisms of control, from economic pressure to CIA intervention.
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After numerous attempts to goad the Chinese government into applying more economic pressure against Pyongyang, President Donald Trump is running out of diplomatic options.
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China has put economic pressure on Seoul to abandon the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, designed to defeat nuclear-armed North Korean missiles.
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Moscow has been under stiff economic pressure since the annexation of Crimea, but that hasn't stopped Putin from increasing interference in Syria's civil war.
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Iran's government announced Friday that it was rationing fuel and increasing its price, citing economic pressure US sanctions as its reason for doing so.
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He will continue working with allies and partners to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea to end its threatening and destabilizing behavior.
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That means the economic pressure required to change Iran's calculus on any one of these areas will have to be both substantial and sustained.
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But despite all of Mr. Trump's efforts, the industry remains under heavy economic pressure from cheap natural gas and the rise of renewable energy.
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Yet trade between China and North Korea actually increased in the first quarter of 2017, suggesting Beijing isn't seriously trying to use economic pressure.
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But he described it as a distant line of action behind other moves meant to ratchet up diplomatic and economic pressure against Mr. Maduro.
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Trump on Monday predicted a trade deal with China, citing what he described as increasing economic pressure on Beijing and job losses in China.
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We know now that depression is a result of numerous factors: social environment, economic pressure, cognitive misreading, a random event, trauma, neurobiology and genes.
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Beijing is now under increasing social and economic pressure to deal with the chronic hazardous air amid concerns about the damage to people's health.
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Analysts say the economic pressure is not working, mainly because China, North Korea's largest trading partner, has not been vigorous in enforcing the sanctions.
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President Barack Obama's approach to North Korea included steadily tightening economic pressure, while allowing American diplomats to quietly meet with their North Korean counterparts.
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The recently passed U.N. sanctions on North Korea represent an effort to use economic pressure to get Pyongyang to roll back its nuclear program.
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Otherwise, Kim could use any interim deal to ease economic pressure on his regime while continuing to expand his ability to threaten his neighbors.
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The Trump administration has vowed to maintain robust economic pressure until the North takes real steps toward fully and verifiably relinquishing its nuclear program.
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Since Trump's Singapore summit with Kim, North Korea analysts including Russel and Cha have said that the economic pressure on Kim has softened noticeably.
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Team Haley's tough diplomatic talk with Beijing and Moscow forced a shift in their position, which paved a way for maximum economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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State leaders faced considerable economic pressure, because companies and organizations that opposed the law withdrew events from the state and called off job-expansion plans.
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"We ask our allies and partners to join our economic pressure campaign against Iran&aposs regime," Pompeo said in a tweet ahead of his talks.
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The divided Federal Reserve is reluctant to cut rates in the face of mounting global economic pressure, Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg told CNBC on Friday.
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The major indexes rose after President Donald Trump said he expected the U.S. to strike a trade deal with China, citing economic pressure on Beijing.
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" According to a 2012 study about marital financial conflict, "economic pressure, communication issues, and deeper 'hidden' issues within marriage are all associated with financial conflict.
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Using a combination of economic pressure and maritime assertiveness, it is challenging the alliance system that has long cemented America's posture in the Asia-Pacific.
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It doesn't help that China and Russia — two countries that months ago agreed to put economic pressure on North Korea — have since relaxed those punishments.
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Gaza is controlled by Abbas's rival, the Islamist Hamas group, and the Palestinian president has been using economic pressure in order to wrest back control.
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Aggravating the slowdown, the government has also vowed it will not relent on enforcing anti-pollution controls, refusing to accept mounting economic pressure as excuses.
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"I see it as evidence that the collective strategy of imposing maximum diplomatic and economic pressure through sanctions on North Korea is working," Bishop said.
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Croft said the OPEC oil deal should help the country's reform program, as it could alleviate economic pressure and buy the young prince some time.
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The bill has faced economic pressure from major corporations who have threatened to re-evaluate their business relationship with Texas if the bill is passed.
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Some commentators feel uncomfortable with reducing the diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran, given its human rights record and history of hostility to its neighbors.
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But the newspaper now faces a painful reality: No matter how strong its journalism, no publication is immune to the economic pressure on the industry.
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"We have made our focus diplomatic isolation and economic pressure and that policy is working," Brian Hook, Special Envoy for Iran, said in a briefing.
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Senior administration officials say they are focused on diplomacy and economic pressure and have little interest in military options, though they won't rule them out.
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China's central bank cut its interest rate on medium-term loans earlier this week to alleviate some of the economic pressure caused by the coronavirus.
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For now, the strategy emerging in the White House includes greater economic pressure on China to step in to help resolve the crisis, officials said.
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Indeed, Moscow has already started applying military, media and economic pressure, mainly through manipulation of its energy subsidies and pressing for military bases in Belarus.
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With China, Mr. Trump's cultivation of Mr. Xi probably persuaded him to put more economic pressure on its neighbor North Korea over its provocative behavior.
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And Bret calls for economic pressure — and even a limited military strike — to force Iran back to the negotiating table and undermine its repressive regime.
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"Opportunities in New York City for young artists are very slim, almost nonexistent, because of real estate prices, economic pressure, inflation, and whatnot," Bui says.
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"We are dedicated to this policy of maximum economic pressure because it is working, it is denying the regime historic levels of revenue," Hook told Reuters.
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The groups said the arrests have taken place under political and economic pressure from the US government against Mexico in order to stop Central American migration.
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The economic pressure on Saudi Arabia showed little sign of relief this week, despite the country delivering its bold new vision for the economy in April.
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In the past, economic pressure from the United States has not worked, even as North Korea suffered a famine from 1994 to 1998 that killed millions.
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Mr Bolton and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, believe in using economic pressure to topple the Iranian regime and bombs to stop its nuclear programme.
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FOR THE PAST month most of the democratic world has united in an effort to remove Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's dictator, through popular, diplomatic and economic pressure.
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But Khatami didn't face the same grinding economic pressure, or an American president like Donald Trump, whose administration has taken a maximalist approach toward pressuring Tehran.
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Furthermore, the Chinese have legitimate skepticism that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's response to economic pressure would be to give up his nuclear arsenal.
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Ed Royce, the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, told CNN Tuesday that he's pressing the administration to put more economic pressure on North Korea.
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The Trump administration has struggled to keep economic pressure on North Korea as it attempts to convince the isolated nation to give up its nuclear weapons.
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However, the press reports that the very same legislators that passed HB2 in the first place attempted to "fix" it because of increased economic pressure. Gov.
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The Trump administration cranked up economic pressure last month on Erdoğan in an effort to free Andrew Brunson, an American pastor detained in Turkey since 85033.
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For Washington, and for our allies in the region, the task now turns to the diplomacy that can turn economic pressure into political change in Caracas.
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The report underscores the mounting economic pressure on a key Trump constituency as he campaigns for a second term (Bloomberg News in The Los Angeles Times).
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London time and speculation is mounting that he could declare independence, despite increasing political and economic pressure being placed on the wealthy northeastern region of Spain.
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Instead, the United States should adopt a holistic strategy that includes diplomacy, economic pressure, as well as military tools to address the drivers of the conflict.
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"Despite the demonetization move in India that created lots of economic pressure there last quarter, despite that we had all-time record revenue results," Cook said.
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The Obama administration showed little appetite for reviving the Six-Party process, and instead embarked on a policy of steadily tightening economic pressure on North Korea.
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He joins the Fund at a time when the rapid spread of the coronavirus is putting immense economic pressure on many of its 189 member countries.
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Today I am writing on what we need to do – in the context of urgent government expenditures – to relieve the enormous economic pressure on this nation.
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Trump said on Monday that China wants to reach a deal "very badly", citing what he described as increasing economic pressure on Beijing and job losses.
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US allies in the region have given a cautious welcome to the development while vowing to keep up intense diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea.
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"Policymakers have taken more steps to ease downtrend economic pressure, which would help to further boost market sentiment," analysts at Huatai Futures said in a note.
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The Trump administration denies it is seeking to overthrow Iran's government through the economic pressure, though Iranian officials say the link between the two is clear.
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Experts previously warned that if India's growth disappoints in fiscal 2019, it could create new political and economic pressure on the government ahead of the elections.
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The latest Chinese trade data also suggests it's more urgent for Beijing to ink a deal with Washington in order to ease economic pressure, she added.
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Though there's no question that Iran's ability to carry out mischief throughout the region has been strained by economic pressure, the regime has survived much worse.
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Mr. Sisi's strongman rule has come under economic pressure in recent months amid high inflation and a sharp drop in the value of the Egyptian pound.
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The U.S. and its allies have placed increasing economic pressure on North Korea to inhibit its development of its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistics missiles.
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"Iran has responded with a strategy of maximum pressure on its region and environment," in response to the US strategy of maximum economic pressure, Macron said.
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But U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected that plea, saying the sanctions are aimed at maximizing economic pressure on Iran.
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The Iranian government continues to feel economic pressure from the U.S. sanctions, though protesters also blame the government for allowing corruption to run rampant, CNN reports.
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The sanctions waivers were included in the 2015 nuclear pact with Iran that eased economic pressure on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
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Analysts say that China is widely seen as having tried to influence the local elections through economic pressure on the self-governing island, including by discouraging tourism.
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The combination of sharp economic pressure, vague demands for change and military bluster gives the rulers in Beijing every reason to respond belligerently to all American moves.
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Some airlines have threatened to cancel orders citing safety reasons, though analysts say the moves coincide with sporadic economic pressure on airlines to reduce or defer deliveries.
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Rome said the Europeans have limited options, and he does expect Iran to ultimately back out of the nuclear agreement because of economic pressure from the sanctions.
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Exxon Mobil has various projects in Russia that are allowed under American sanctions, which are intended to put economic pressure on Russia over its involvement in Ukraine.
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Hamas figures blame Abbas, Fatah and Dahlan for encouraging Egypt and other Arab countries to keep the economic pressure on, forcing Hamas to agree to the reconciliation.
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She said that when China put economic pressure on North Korea, other countries were trying to fill the void, which she said the US would not tolerate.
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Add to this problem the coming wave of automation and you end up with intense economic pressure on an already shrinking middle class and continued wage inequality.
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But that's the sum total of the strategy: There seems to be no plan besides the unwavering belief that escalating economic pressure will eventually break the Chinese.
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Domestic economic pressure is also growing, with mass demonstrations posing the greatest political challenge to the former British colony since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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Russia sanctions: A bipartisan group of senators would like to harden economic pressure on Russia amid growing concerns about the Kremlin's attempts to influence the midterm elections.
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Her pioneering book, "The Two Income Trap," about the mounting economic pressure on working families, was required reading among Democrats and progressive politicians in the mid-2000s.
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The White House has been ramping up economic pressure on Kim's government, often hinting of military threats in the process, to halt the latter's nuclear weapons program.
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But instead of increasing that economic pressure, which was originally intended to contribute to the dismantlement of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the Obama administration made an about face.
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Dunford told reporters in Beijing a peaceful option is the preferred solution to the North Korea situation but nobody thinks economic pressure alone can result in denuclearization.
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"We have been very careful about applying maximum economic pressure (on Iran) without lifting the price of oil and we have done that successfully," Hook told reporters.
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Analysts argue that it's possible the US could ramp up economic pressure against North Korea's neighbor, China, which would then further strain relations between the two powers.
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Mr. Trump, officials said, will stick to his policy of rallying nations to apply economic pressure on North Korea, backed up by the threat of military action.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday predicted a trade deal with China, citing what he described as increasing economic pressure on Beijing and job losses in China.
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But despite winning some social peace, a youth bulge, sagging growth rates and economic pressure could result in the country's next implosion, as the protests have indicated.
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The United States and allies including South Korea and Japan have put increasing economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's rogue dictatorship amid its nuclear and missile development.
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Iran's evolving response to maximum pressure Washington's policy of escalating economic pressure was designed to compel Iran to return to the negotiating table for a better deal.
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The Trump administration has steadily ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran since leaving the 2015 international pact that constrained its nuclear program in exchange for economic relief.
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The economic pressure that forced Iran to the negotiating table and led to the JCPOA was the result of sanctions imposed by a broad-based international coalition.
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He touted his decision to withdraw from the "horrible" Iranian nuclear deal and urged other countries to join the US in ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran.
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As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a television interviewer, the administration is counting on Iranians, under growing economic pressure, to "rise up" and change their regime.
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American military officials have been asked to come up with new potential strategies, from stepped-up economic pressure to increased cyber attacks on the missile testing regimes.
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But it can be a campaign of economic pressure, to put Iran's leaders to a fundamental choice between their ideological ambitions and the needs of their people.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said U.S. military action in Venezuela is possible but diplomatic and economic pressure are the preferred ways to oust Maduro.
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The finding underscores the Trump administration's struggle to maintain economic pressure on North Korea amid a diplomatic bid to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear and missile arsenal.
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But he and other officials continued to emphasize diplomatic and economic pressure as a way to help oust Maduro, as opposed to a U.S.-military led regime change.
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"It's unclear if all senior leaders will obey him and it would mean more responsibility for him, including the downward economic pressure and rising social conflicts," he said.
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Secretary Pompeo was very clear that if North Korea doesn&apost want to negotiate, we&aposll revert the situation normal, which means military deterrence and maximum economic pressure.
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The U.S. is asking China to not only support more robust action at the U.N., but to apply its own unilateral economic pressure, as North Korea's largest benefactor.
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"The market is pricing in a higher probability of a no-deal Brexit and an increase of economic pressure...You have the perfect storm for sterling," Gkionakis added.
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"The market is pricing in a higher probability of a no-deal Brexit and an increase of economic pressure ... You have the perfect storm for sterling," Gkionakis added.
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Under economic pressure from international sanctions, North Korea has relied on the exports of weapons and the deployment of military instructors abroad as a source of foreign currency.
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Zelenskiy said he was ready for talks but he warned Russia against trying to speak with Ukraine and Ukrainians "in the language of threats, military and economic pressure".
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The U.S. may have to live with a nuclear North Korea indefinitely, but history shows that, with sufficient patience, economic pressure, and negotiation, nuclear states will sometimes disarm.
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They are the latest in a string of actions taken by the Trump administration to put economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime for its repeated missile tests.
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North Korea's continued ability to get around international sanctions seems to belie the Trump administration's claims that there is in fact a "maximum economic pressure campaign" on Pyongyang.
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Facing economic pressure from the United States, Turkey has signalled a wish to improve strained ties with the European Union, which it still aspires to join despite disagreements.
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The Chinese government has been placing greater military and economic pressure on Taiwan, which Beijing regards as part of its sovereign territory despite over 70 years of separation.
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Enforcement of the North Korean sanctions is considered vital to the Trump administration's strategy of economic pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
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Trump intensified his spat with Ankara by imposing higher tariffs on metal imports, putting unprecedented economic pressure on a NATO ally and deepening turmoil in Turkish financial markets.
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Mr. Trump has responded by vowing to "totally destroy" North Korea if forced to defend the United States or its allies, while ratcheting up economic pressure through sanctions.
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In Ukraine, Syria and even in our own presidential elections, the White House failed to deploy sufficient political and economic pressure to make Moscow abandon its aggressive tactics.
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Beijing has placed mounting diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan, conducting live-fire drills in nearby seas and flew H-6K bombers and surveillance aircraft around the island.
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They point to the fact Iran has withstood economic pressure before and this time, they say, the US doesn't have the full support of Europe and other countries.
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The other group, including the prime minister, views this as the most opportune moment to squeeze Iran with economic pressure and a credible military threat, Mr. Zalzberg said.
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"Iran will face intense political and economic pressure to cooperate with international aviation authorities, and we expect Tehran will eventually accept Western investigators," analysts at Eurasia Group said.
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The use of effective economic pressure and assertive diplomacy are some of the only realistic options that are available to curb the development of North Korea's nuclear program.
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The alleged cyber attacks come as Beijing increases diplomatic and economic pressure on the self-ruled island, which China claims as its own and considers a wayward province.
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The US has continued to enforce sanctions with the same verve, but China has loosened some of its enforcement of the internationally imposed economic pressure on North Korea.
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The sanctions are just the latest component of the Trump administration's efforts to ramp up economic pressure on Iran and dissuade foreign companies from doing business with Iran.
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Several of his other marquee initiatives, including nuclear talks with North Korea and an effort to squeeze concessions out of Iran with economic pressure, have yielded few results.
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There is also a bill in the U.S. Senate that, if passed, would impose more economic pressure on Chinese banks and companies that do business with North Korea.
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Last week a senior Trump administration official said the White House planned to ramp up economic pressure on Cuba's military and intelligence services, as well as on Venezuela.
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Britain also remains committed to the Iran nuclear deal from which Trump withdrew the United States ahead of a campaign of intense economic pressure directed at Tehran's clerical rulers.
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They also drive home the point that, whatever the US (and its allies in Saudi Arabia and Israel) may think, heavy economic pressure on Iran can have dangerous consequences.
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Washington has a campaign of 'maximum economic pressure on Iran and through sanctions, it eventually aims to halt Iranian oil exports and thereby choke Tehrans main source of revenue.
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Washington has a campaign of "maximum economic pressure" on Iran and through sanctions, it eventually aims to halt Iranian oil exports and thereby choke Tehran's main source of revenue.
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Beijing could, for instance, decide to stop helping the US put economic pressure on North Korea to try to rein in its nuclear program by neglecting to enforce sanctions.
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Instead, officials claim it has applied immense economic pressure on the Islamic Republic solely in hopes of bringing it to the negotiating table — not as a prelude to conflict.
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Trump believes the economic pressure will force Tehran to accept tougher curbs on its nuclear and missile programs and on its support for proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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"It's obviously the case that we are facing economic pressure because of the US sanctions," Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said during a talk at the Doha Forum in Qatar.
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Glaser from CSIS echoed that sentiment, adding that if a candidate from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party was elected, China would ratchet up military, diplomatic and economic pressure.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump increased economic pressure on Venezuela's leftist President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday with new sanctions aimed at disrupting the South American country's gold exports.
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But the changes will push up prices for transport, food products and other goods, adding to economic pressure on Egyptians who have already lived through several years of austerity.
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Trump believes the economic pressure will force Tehran to accept tougher restrictions on its nuclear and missile programs and on its support for proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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The main driver of economic pressure will be lower exports to the UK, but the scale of the impact will depend on the terms of any eventual trade deal.
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In Gaza, the Bush administration applied economic pressure against Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, with the intent that Hamas would yield to the pressure and either moderate or fail.
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Dunford said Thursday that a peaceful resolution to North Korea tensions was still preferred, but that nobody thinks economic pressure will be enough to force Pyongyang to back down.
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If there is further indication that Xi prematurely reduces China's economic pressure on North Korea, the Trump administration should sanction the Chinese companies, banks, and individuals enabling this activity.
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Administration officials have said that they will maintain sanctions on North Korea even as talks continue, and stand ready to intensify that economic pressure should Pyongyang fail to cooperate.
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"We have been clear with countries and companies around the world that we are bringing severe economic pressure on Iran until the regime changes its destabilizing policies," he said.
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The actions have prompted the United States and United Nations to impose new sanctions on Pyongyang, but China's cooperation is considered critical to putting economic pressure on North Korea.
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President Trump has made it clear in recent months to anyone who didn't already know that Chinese economic pressure is the key to forcing North Korea to back off.
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As we have seen with U.S. sanctions on Iran, Russia and other examples of sanctioned states, it is also going to take some time for economic pressure to bite.
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President Trump's gamble with Iran will reach an inflection point next month when his administration reimposes American sanctions meant to apply severe economic pressure on the government in Tehran.
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It was unclear how the protests might affect Trump's thinking about the 2015 nuclear pact that eased economic pressure on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
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After months of increasing political and economic pressure, North Korea's once-defiant tone has shifted dramatically since January, for which some have credited Mr. Trump's threats of military action.
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First, Trump raised the economic pressure on North Korea with additional sanctions and extra support from China, and the pain was visible when I visited North Korea in September.
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If sustained, solid growth in services could offset some of the economic pressure from weaker exports, which are faltering amid slowing global demand and the U.S.-China trade war.
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The right response is intensified economic pressure, military readiness and moral denunciation — the formula under which South Koreans prospered, peace was maintained, and the North largely contained for decades.
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She said this will likely lead to efforts to bring increased political and economic pressure on Iran, including attempts at driving a wedge between Russia and Iran in Syria.
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The win for "Parasite" also comes at a moment when there's considerable economic pressure on news outlets -- even those dedicated to entertainment -- to write about that which is popular.
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He spoke to the senators for less than three minutes, mainly promoting his efforts to persuade President Xi Jinping of China to put more economic pressure on North Korea.
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Appearing on U.S. talk show, "Ellen", the "Ocean's Eleven" actor discussed the boycott and economic pressure that followed after the announcement of the new laws and the U-turn.
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"We have been clear with countries and companies around the world that we are bringing severe economic pressure on Iran until the regime changes its destabilizing policies," Hook said.
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They have expressed a belief that diplomatic and economic pressure will contain North Korea's nuclear ambitions and that current missile defenses are adequate to counter the "Hermit Kingdom's" arsenal.
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President Donald Trump ratcheted up the economic pressure on the European Union over the weekend, threatening to turn allies into enemies at home and abroad with his trade pronouncements.
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The breach of the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday was a stark demonstration that Iran can still strike at American interests despite Trump&aposs economic pressure campaign.
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When facing, according to Rouhani himself, the "worst economic pressure in the past forty years" and the political equivalent of a "full-fledged and unprecedented war," what's there to lose?
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U.S. officials have given no indication that the United States has been prepared to give any ground over the Brunson issue, with Trump seemingly content to keep up economic pressure.
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"As the dust settles, we expect further tension among the various players and large integrated players to continue to exert economic pressure on competitors," Muken wrote in a client note.
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Both sides are likely to come under business and economic pressure to de-escalate, avoiding a major disruption of global trade and with it the increased likelihood of a recession.
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However, these statements become harder to believe as the administration not only ramps up economic pressure on Iran, but also launches a very public PR campaign against the "outlaw" regime.
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"(The data) suggests an increasing downstream economic pressure in the future...We expect more policies will come out to ease the pressure," analysts from Huatai Futures said in a note.
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Tehran has vowed to keep exporting oil despite U.S. efforts to reduce its shipments to zero, but the export decline could be another indicator of economic pressure from the embargo.
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As Assad's administration faces growing economic pressure from U.S. sanctions and the war, it is likely to look for even more support — and China is poised to lend a hand.
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It requires no taxpayer dollars, its provisions are noncontroversial and it formalizes the United States' moral promise to support Ukrainian territorial integrity and continue to apply economic pressure on Russia.
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Over the course of the last 18 months, he has often ratcheted up political and economic pressure before accepting a symbolic resolution, such as in his dealings with North Korea.
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"My sense was that we hadn't taken much of a pause," Pompeo told lawmakers of the administration's so-called "pressure campaign" to put economic pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
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Ryabkov also targeted the Trump administration Saturday for sanctions put in place by the Treasury Department, warning the U.S. that economic pressure will not force Russia to change its policies.
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The South American country has the largest proven oil reserves in the world but, amid intensifying economic pressure, its have decreased to levels not seen in more than 30 years.
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The United States and United Nations have put more economic pressure on North Korea throughout the year and pushed China — Pyongyang's major ally — to do more to isolate the regime.
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"We are steadfast in our determination to maximize economic pressure to isolate (North Korea) from outside sources of trade and revenue," US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
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Zarif also chastised Pompeo for his comments about Iran's ability to get access to food and medicine as the US works to apply maximum economic pressure on Iran through sanctions.
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" Death of Otto Warmbier: "We will continue to apply political and economic pressure... we will continue to work with [China] and others to put the appropriate pressure on North Korea.
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That economic pressure has lessened in recent months, in part because of the good feelings between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but the sanctions remain in place.
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Moon is likely aware that his plan could damage his relationship with you because it goes against the economic pressure you have said will remain in place until Kim denuclearizes.
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Trump's administration has ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran this year with sanctions to try to force it to renegotiate a 2015 pact with world powers limiting its nuclear program.
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Trump's administration has ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran this year with sanctions to try to force it to renegotiate a 2015 pact with world powers limiting its nuclear programme.
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He said maximum pressure — broadly defined as the administration&aposs campaign to apply economic pressure on Iran and isolating it diplomatically to encourage it to change its behavior — is working.
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Euro zone countries will be required to pay capped contributions into the fund, and those under economic pressure could be permitted to slash their own contributions in half when necessary.
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In response, the president is working to restore American hegemony in the region by building up our military presence, expanding relationships with key allies, and putting economic pressure on China.
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And they noted that punishing sanctions remained in place on Pyongyang, even if analysts said China and Russia had relaxed their economic pressure since Mr. Trump's diplomatic efforts had begun.
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But the Trump administration has indicated that economic pressure — particularly imposed by China, with which North Korea conducts almost 90 percent of its trade — is its preferred form of deterrence.
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Still, it was unclear how the protests might affect Trump's thinking about the 2015 nuclear pact that eased economic pressure on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
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The US is targeting high-tech Chinese goods to put economic pressure on Beijing's "Made in China 2025" program — a Chinese government initiative to transform China into an advanced manufacturing powerhouse.
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Lawmakers called on Abadi to apply economic pressure on the Kurds, who suffered under Saddam for decades and then began building a semi-autonomous zone in the north after his fall.
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"The decisions today enhance our ability to constrain Iran's nuclear program while pursuing maximum economic pressure," Brian Hook, the State Department special representative on Iran, told CNN in an interview Friday.
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So his administration pulled America out of the deal in May and launched "a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda".
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Finally, a more conservative regime that's determined not to bow to U.S. economic pressure could withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal altogether, rather than just back away from it in stages.
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Trump also put more economic pressure on North Korea by ordering additional sanctions, including on its shipping and trade networks but stopped short of going after Pyongyang's biggest trading partner, China.
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And even as Trump administration officials stressed that a stepped up campaign of diplomacy and economic pressure remains the administration's preferred strategy, Trump is also keeping military options on the table.
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Yet, this vital material is only produced in one remaining smelter in the United States, producing at only 2628 percent capacity and under great economic pressure to compete with Chinese dumping.
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The Kremlin is now in a solid position to respond to further economic pressure, thanks to higher oil prices, modest growth, and almost half a trillion dollars sitting in currency reserves.
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Still, the president said Thursday that he has hopes for a peaceful resolution or even scheduling another summit with Kim in the future as the U.S. puts economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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"The status quo right now is not an option, but economically, Qatar can outlast some of the economic pressure that some of the blockading countries have put on Doha," Hawthorne added.
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"It can withstand the economic pressure, but it needs to hold on to maintaining balanced relationships with Russia, with the United States, with Iran as well as Saudi Arabia," she added.
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei knows that Iranians, many of whom took to the streets earlier this year to protest against high food prices, can only take so much economic pressure.
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Streaming services are also under tremendous economic pressure of their own, such that they're unlikely to commit for the long term to arty, mid-budget films like Roma and Buster Scruggs.
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The United States and its allies, including Japan and South Korea, have put increasing economic pressure on North Korea in an attempt to halt the reclusive regime's nuclear and missile development.
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Although China has been pouring money into Cambodia over the last several years without regard to its deteriorating human rights record, Cambodia is still vulnerable to economic pressure from the West.
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Mr. Waldrop is skeptical that the attempt by protesters to apply economic pressure will lead to broad reforms, because of all the municipalities and counties in the region that operate independently.
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She also urged them to withdraw their money from state banks to exert economic pressure on the government to force it to stop resorting to violence and to meet their demands.
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Trump has repeatedly pressed China — North Korea's only major ally — to put more economic pressure on Pyongyang, lamenting that he has few other options left to try to check North Korea.
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Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and instead has since looked to impose increasing economic pressure with sanctions on Iranian oil -- leaving him with relatively little left to penalize now.
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He also said the protests in Iran may have persuaded Mr. Khamenei that he had waited too long to resolve the sanctions and the economic pressure they have placed on Iran.
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Increasing the price of an imported vehicle with tariffs could reduce overall vehicle sales and exert economic pressure on manufacturers as well as on freight haulers, dealerships and independent service centers.
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China has taken steps to increase economic pressure on Pyongyang but has long been unwilling to do anything that may destabilize the North and send millions of refugees across their border.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will intensify its economic pressure on Iran until Tehran forgoes violence and engages with U.S. diplomatic efforts, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday.
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But perhaps even more important is the psychological toll such economic pressure would exact on Israel's government, forcing it to consider how its already beleaguered international reputation could slide even further.
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In addition to grassroots BDS efforts, the EU is the other major source of economic pressure on Israel, although such activities are targeted specifically at settlement activity, not Israel more broadly.
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If only the US were to reimpose its sanctions, Iran would be under significantly less economic pressure than it was when it finally came to the negotiating table in the first place.
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Legal industry consultant Jon Lindsey of Major Lindsey & Africa said law firms are facing economic pressure as large corporations bring more legal work in-house or outsource to cheaper alternative service providers.
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Seoul's vulnerability as a hostage city helps to explain why both Republican and Democratic administrations have spent years hoping that diplomacy and economic pressure will dissuade North Korea from building nuclear weapons.
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But to the extent that his past rhetoric can be taken at face value, he clearly believes that the United States has strong economic pressure it can bring to bear against China.
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Mr Bolton had been prominent among hawks who believed in using economic pressure to remove the clerical regime, and American (or Israeli) military action to set back the nuclear programme if necessary.
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The Chinese fear that serious economic pressure would risk causing Kim Jong Un's regime to collapse, which could unleash chaos on the peninsula, and usher in a variety of long-term problems.
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Angela Merkel, the normally cautious German Chancellor, is reportedly considering placing potentially devastating economic pressure on Turkey in the hope that she can cool down Turkey's increasingly confrontational President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Firstly, the international community could pile on sufficient economic pressure to convince the regime that unless it abandons these programs, its economy will collapse and it will face a dangerous domestic revolt.
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That and skillful diplomacy at the United Nations have resulted in a substantial escalation of sanctions on North Korea which, if implemented properly, will apply veritable economic pressure on the Kim regime.
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A deep break between the United States, the UN and Europe will make it much less likely that the U.S. will ever be able to muster such powerful international economic pressure again.
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But that process is totally at odds with the U.S. policy of maximum military and economic pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arsenal as a condition to initiate peace negotiations.
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Trump on Friday intensified his spat with Turkey on Friday by imposing higher tariffs on metal imports, putting unprecedented economic pressure on a NATO ally and deepening turmoil in Turkish financial markets.
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When forest owners cannot realize a return on their investments, they face enormous economic pressure to turn their forestland into something else that will provide an economic return, like agriculture or development.
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But Putin is also under economic pressure and won't want to cut off his nose to spite his face -- meaning he'll sanction something that won't cost Russian firms a lot of money.
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In February, several civilians told CNN's Stefano Pozzebon that what they wanted was for the US to lift those blocks, saying that economic pressure was hurting the nation more than anything else.
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But across the region there are signs the political and economic pressure on North Korea has sprung leaks as Pyongyang adapts to restrictions and more countries signal their willingness to reopen trade.
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Though the frequency of smuggling is difficult to estimate, they fear it is undermining efforts to thwart the nuclear weapons ambitions of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, through economic pressure.
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As the US threatens to punish countries who cooperate with Huawei by limiting intelligence sharing, China has also made clear that it may apply economic pressure against those who ban the company.
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Administration officials point to the recent protests in Iran over gasoline price increases as evidence that the economic pressure is working and that Washington's restraint in response to the attacks is justified.
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Moscow and Minsk interpret the agreement differently, but Putin has begun to apply economic pressure to Belarus while scheduling a flurry of meetings with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko over the last year.
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But Washington is reluctant to lessen its economic pressure on the North because doing so would weaken the strongest leverage it has to force the country to rid itself of nuclear weapons.
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China has raised significant economic pressure on South Korea to scrap the defense system through threats to a South Korean retail group and restrictions on Korean products and possibly travel to the country.
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HOFFMAN: Their economy is in freefall and that&aposs one of the key elements of the president&aposs maximum economic pressure on North Korea which is help them bring them to the table.
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Trump ratcheted up tensions with North Korea to get Kim to the Singapore summit, and is following the same script with Iran: scuttling the nuclear deal, increasing economic pressure but then proposing talks.
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The 4As has continued to push for a greater foothold in the agency world, which is increasingly facing economic pressure from brands and tech companies bringing ad-buying and marketing solutions in-house.
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Brian Hook, Iran Special Envoy, also said in a briefing the global oil market had already factored in Iranian oil exports falling to zero under the Trump administration's economic pressure campaign against Tehran.
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Xi and his team will come to Mar-a-Lago with a strategy for avoiding conflict and unpredictable developments, for convincing Trump that he should tone down his rhetoric and rethink economic pressure.
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At the same time, it is Germany's biggest electricity producer due to its large fleet of coal- and gas-fired power plants, which have come under political and economic pressure in recent years.
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For instance, whatever your view of the nuclear agreement with Iran, the Islamic Republic would not have come to the negotiating table without the multilateral sanctions exerting global economic pressure against the regime.
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These sanctions have not only put economic pressure on Russia, but stand as a symbolic gesture that the world does not accept the imperialistic behavior of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies.
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Unlike those implemented prior to the 2015 nuclear deal, Trump's recent round of sanctions do not appear to have the broad international support necessary to apply maximum economic pressure on the Iranian regime.
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The tone of these advertisements is very different than that of "Sorry to Bother You," but the worlds they depict, of defiance in the face of privatization and relentless economic pressure, are similar.
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The United States has sharply increased economic pressure on Iran by eliminating all waivers for buyers of Iran's crude oil from the start of May and is now threatening the country's petrochemical exports.
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He added that players' preference would always be to play in front of spectators, though he admitted waiting until that was possible might not be realistic considering the economic pressure on the industry.
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The activist, Omar Barghouti, is one of the co-founders of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, also known as B.D.S., which encourages broad economic pressure on Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.
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Washington's current maximum pressure strategy relies on compounding economic pressure to get Tehran to come to the negotiating table for a much broader agreement than the 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA.
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Some close American allies disagreed, including the British government, which maintains an embassy in Iran and has long held that economic pressure alone would not bring Iran into negotiations over its nuclear program.
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Professor Balding said in an interview on Monday that he welcomed the latest decision by Cambridge University Press, but that research and publishing still risked buckling to political or economic pressure from China.
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The Trump administration has reversed the course of former president Barack Obama's Iran policy, pulling back from a nuclear deal with Iran and escalating economic pressure by implementing new sanctions on the country.
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Experts warned that if growth were to disappoint again in the new financial year, it could create new political and economic pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ahead of 2019's elections.
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The Chinese foreign minister called for the US to make more concessions to North Korea instead of insisting that the world join the US in maintaining intense economic pressure on Pyongyang through sanctions.
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But their proposed solution of a carbon tax is built on a false premise: that economic pressure will attach itself to fossil fuels as readily as it does to some other consumer products.
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President Trump's administration is reportedly weighing sanctions against North Korea in an effort to slow the nuclear program, placing diplomatic and economic pressure specifically focused on Chinese banks conducting business with North Korea.
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Omar herself has been subject to vicious Islamophobic smears, and has also come under attack for supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to use economic pressure to secure Palestinian rights.
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"They bring to bear economic pressure to separate the nation from the system ... but six U.S. presidents before him (Trump) tried this and had to give up," Khamenei said on his website Khamenei.ir.
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The Black Lives Matter movement, for example, has wholeheartedly embraced the Palestinian cause, backing the call for economic pressure on Israel to end the occupation and for US policy to do the same.
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Mounting U.S. economic pressure, a faltering economy, sliding currency and state corruption are rattling Iran's clerical rulers, but analysts and insiders rule out any chance of a seismic shift in Iran's political landscape.
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"The fact you see Kim Jong Un meeting with Vladimir Putin underscores the fact that the sanctions are working and the sanctions are putting extreme economic pressure on the North Korean regime," Hagerty said.
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It was important to maintain diplomatic and economic pressure, Pompeo said on the sidelines of an Asian regional conference, adding the United States took very seriously any relaxation of U.N. sanctions against North Korea.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. policy of maximum economic pressure on Tehran is working but the sanctions do not give Iran the right to breach its nuclear commitments, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
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In sum, even though energy investors might respond negatively to a Warren victory, her proposed crackdown on Big Oil would face enormous challenges, from court fights and economic pressure to a potential political backlash.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump last week expanded the scope of its Venezuela sanctions to the defense and security services sectors to try to crank up economic pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's government has plans to protect the nation against U.S. economic pressure, Iran's Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand was quoted as saying on Tuesday, a day after Washington imposed new sanctions on Tehran.
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"We have now had over a half dozen attacks that have been launched by the Iranian regime because they don't like the economic pressure that the United States has put into place," he added.
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From a subway performer's battered leather hat devoid of tips, to a bride-to-be's empty purse, the lack of cash from the economic pressure facing Iran's 21980 million people can be seen everywhere.
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" Marquis added: "The meeting with Netanyahu re-affirmed the shared United States-Israel priority of confronting Iranian aggression throughout the region by continuing maximum economic pressure and increasing the cost of Iran's malign activity.
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Over the past several months, Trump has boxed in Kim Jong Un. First, he ramped up economic pressure on Pyongyang while making clear that, unlike his predecessors, he was willing to take military action.
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"The fact you see Kim Jong Un meeting with Vladimir Putin underscores the fact that the sanctions are working and the sanctions are putting extreme economic pressure on the North Korean regime," he said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Wednesday of plotting to use economic pressure to overthrow the Islamic republic's clerical establishment, and ruled out the possibility of talks with Washington.
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President Donald Trump and others in the United States and beyond have urged China to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on its Communist ally to help resolve the standoff over North Korea's weapons programmes.
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"The U.S. can and must support the people of Venezuela not through an unconstitutional, unauthorized military intervention, but with humanitarian aid and targeted economic pressure to hasten the day Maduro leaves power," he adds.
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"Inclusion of this amendment is obviously linked to potential technical difficulties in servicing the debt in case of increased economic pressure from the United States to the Russian corporate names," Sberbank CIB's Bulgakov said.
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In January, CAAM predicted sales would rise 5 percent this year, slowing from 13.7 percent in 2016, citing the scaling back of a tax incentive for small-engine vehicles as well as economic pressure.
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Opposition leaders who have counted on the U.S. government to apply sustained moral and economic pressure on Maduro have so far been silent about Trump's remarks and marchers seemed confounded by his military threat.
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And then there's North Korea, where the administration has made muscular threats of preemptive strikes but has so far basically maintained Obama's policy of diplomatic and economic pressure on the rogue, nuclear-armed nation.
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What's next: With the prospect of a comprehensive denuclearization deal off the table for now, the Trump administration will likely get back to basics: resuming economic pressure, threatening force and ramping up rhetorical attacks.
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The backdrop: Trump's East Asian priorities are clashing as he tries to take a hard line against China on trade — but is counting on Beijing to keep up its economic pressure on North Korea.
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And although Beijing initially helped put economic pressure on North Korea at the request of the Trump administration, it has now relaxed those sanctions, thereby giving Pyongyang an economic outlet to avoid devastating penalties.
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Traders currently are pricing in a 50 basis point cut this month followed by another 50 basis points before the end of the year in response to economic pressure from the novel coronavirus spread.
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"While Guaidó can reliably count on United States economic pressure on Maduro to continue, he cannot reliably count on popular pressure from the broader population," Mr. McCarthy wrote in a client newsletter on Tuesday.
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Amazon has already adversely affected the personal lives of many Americans in cities like Seattle, where they applied economic pressure that ultimately forced out less affluent residents and welcomed wealthier people in their places.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is determined to push Iranian oil exports to zero, U.S. Special Representative Brian Hook said on Wednesday, through a 'calibrated' approach using maximum economic pressure without lifting oil prices.
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"The big question is whether it's possible for U.S. economic pressure to accelerate democratic change in Cuba, and for the last six decades there's been very little evidence of a correlation," Mr. Erikson said.
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One glimmer of hope is that we've seen tech leaders speak up on recent issues like the attempts to politicize bathroom access, with tech CEOs making effective use of economic pressure to influence policy.
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READ: Donald Trump had a very weird weekend at the G7 summit Trump said China was seeking to end the trade war due to increasing economic pressure on Beijing and job losses in China.
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The Trump administration has ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran this year with economic sanctions to try to force it to renegotiate a pact reached with world powers in 2015 limiting its nuclear programme.
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President Donald Trump and others in the United States and beyond have urged China to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on its Communist ally to help resolve the standoff over North Korea's weapons programs.
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Economic pressure that could be placed on China by the U.S. as a way of confronting the nuclear situation in North Korea may have a detrimental impact on stocks ahead, one portfolio manager warns.
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We can see that, from July, many Southeast countries have suffered from heavy rain, at the same time; bad weather also puts economic pressure on many Southeast Asian countries that rely on agricultural exports.
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And, despite the embarrassment for Beijing caused by Kim Jong Un flouting the wishes of the Middle Kingdom, China continues to abide his behavior rather than inflicting decisive diplomatic and economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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The thing was, after decades of layoffs and strikes, unrelenting economic pressure and a succession of political leaders who threw chairs and swung brooms at them — figuratively and sometimes literally — they were still there.
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Hamas leaders speak out of both sides of their mouths where resistance and terrorism are concerned, but when the group makes real concessions, they should be recognized, and economic pressure should ease in response.
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Despite increasing economic pressure, China's environment ministry has said the government will not ease its measures to curb air pollution, although cities and regions have been given more leeway in determining individual cuts this year.
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Moreover, trade between China and North Korea actually increased in the first quarter of 2017, suggesting Beijing isn't seriously trying to use economic pressure — by far its biggest stick when it comes to the North.
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BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan secessionists were working on Friday toward a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain that could be adopted next week in defiance of a court order and increased economic pressure from Madrid.
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The judge acknowledged that Ukraine had made a strong case regarding the economic pressure and Russian threats which led to Kiev accepting Russia's financial support in 2013, rather than signing an European Union accession agreement.
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"Congress party's electoral promise could tilt traders' and urban middle class voters towards Modi, since they would have to bear the economic pressure," said Praveen Khandelwal, secretary general of the Confederation of All India Traders.
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Han Song Ryol, head of the department of U.S. affairs at North Korea's Foreign Ministry, blamed the current situation on the United States, saying it needs to stop its military threats, sanctions and economic pressure.
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Trump's argument is twofold: That Beijing will eventually give in to US demands to alleviate some of the economic pressure on the country, especially if non-tariff factors dragging down the Chinese economy get worse.
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TINDER BOX The United States has sharply increased economic pressure on Iran by eliminating all waivers for buyers of Irans crude oil from the start of May and is now threatening the countrys petrochemical exports.
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But instead, the Trump administration chose another way — the current diplomatic push between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — in part because Kim wants to reduce US-imposed economic pressure on his country.
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While Obama kept economic pressure on Iran, his administration ultimately worked out a deal with five other nations that lifted international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for Iranian leaders accepting limits on their nuclear program.
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"We have always believed in talks ... if they lift sanctions, end the imposed economic pressure and return to the deal, we are ready to hold talks with America today, right now and anywhere," Rouhani said.
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The Trump administration's approach is a profound misunderstanding of how to link together our alliances, economic pressure, and military posture to create a genuine diplomatic roadmap to address Kim Jong-un's nuclear and missile programs.
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Trump did not elaborate on when or how such a blockade could be imposed, and his administration has so far focused on diplomatic and economic pressure against Maduro while steering clear of any military action.
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The Bank's stress test is not designed to show what the central bank actually thinks will happen to British and world economies under extreme economic pressure, but rather to understand the total worst case scenario.
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In addition to putting economic pressure on Mexico, President Trump noted that the federal government also sends billions of dollars in aid each year to help Central American countries resolve their humanitarian and economic problems.
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Tensions with Iran are running high after Tehran's nuclear agency announced it will soon exceed the amount of low-enriched uranium it is allowed to stockpile unless Europe intervenes to remove economic pressure on Iran.
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She spoke to Australia's ABC radio from Washington, DC. "That is why it is so important that we agree that ... it is so important to continue the economic pressure through the sanctions regime," she said.
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It&aposs also bringing increasing economic pressure and most recently has browbeat international airlines and businesses into referring to Taiwan as part of China, a move condemned by Taipei and its ally, the United States.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his spat with Turkey on Friday by imposing higher tariffs on metal imports, putting unprecedented economic pressure on a NATO ally and deepening turmoil in Turkish financial markets.
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The move came as the Trump administration prepared to increase economic pressure on Iran by restoring sanctions to force Tehran to end its nuclear weapons program and support for militant groups in the Middle East.
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Some members of his national security team are apparently trying to apply the sort of approach that the Cuban missile crisis enshrined, emphasizing diplomatic and economic pressure and characterizing military measures as a last resort.
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These risks suggest Chinese authorities will use force if needed, although they may first seek to control the protests by applying economic pressure on Hong Kong, sowing disinformation, arresting protest leaders and threatening military escalation.
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Earlier this month, a senior State Department official announced what he termed a "super maximum economic pressure campaign," which would advocate new due diligence measures on maritime shipping and punish the storage of Iranian oil.
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Trump's wide range of sanctions, which have targeted Iran's foreign minister and the Guards among others, are part of a U.S. campaign to increase economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program and regional ambitions.
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But Mr. Davis said Mr. Trump's remarks had cleared the way for more players to protest, removing some of the political stigma and economic pressure that had led some to steer clear of such issues.
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"I think we're going to go in the direction of increasing maximum economic pressure on the Iranian regime," Gallagher, who is an Iraq War veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, told Hill.
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But White House officials say they are not interested in any proposal that would require the United States to lift military or economic pressure on the North, even in return for a moratorium on tests.
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But China wields leverage over North Korea by virtue of being its largest trading partner (it accounts for more than 90% of North Korea's foreign trade) and Beijing could exert more economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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The move is part of the United States' "maximum economic pressure campaign against the Iranian regime and those who enable its destabilizing behavior," said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a press release on Wednesday.
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The two leaders pledged to continue to apply strong diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea and to make all necessary preparations to defend against the growing threat by the North, the White House said.
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By contrast, the opposition is deploying its online slogan '#GantiPresiden2019' (Change the President in 2019), to highlight growing economic pressure, as the rupiah currency has plunged 9 percent this year in an emerging market selloff.
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Even if a nuclear test occurs this weekend or in coming weeks, officials say, the response is likely to be diplomatic, with a ramping up of economic pressure and the deployment of more military assets.
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Frustrated with his inability to regain control of Gaza, Abbas has stepped up economic pressure on Hamas by cutting the electricity supply and reducing the salaries to tens of thousands of former civil servants in Gaza.
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As Puerto Rico grapples with the immense devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, even a temporary reprieve from the Jones Act would help relieve some of the economic pressure on the territory, said former Puerto Rico Gov.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow does not support calls for stifling the economy of North Korea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, adding that possibilities of putting economic pressure on the country had been nearly exhausted.
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DOHA, Qatar — The foreign minister of Iran taunted Donald Trump's White House Saturday, saying the country would "never" give in to economic pressure, and that attempts to enforce sanctions would blow back against the United States.
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Finally, China could lash out in ways that go beyond the US economy — for instance, by deciding to stop helping the US put economic pressure on North Korea to try to rein in its nuclear program.
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Analysts and traders said governments in West Africa now face economic pressure to cut the price paid to farmers with New York cocoa futures falling to the lowest level in almost a decade earlier this month.
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Those aides had good reason for skepticism: While all comparisons between North Korea and Iran are fraught, if economic pressure alone could do the trick, Pyongyang would have given up its nuclear program two decades ago.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The influential chief commander of Iran's Quds force said on Monday that the country's clerical establishment would never negotiate with the United States under enforced economic pressure, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
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"Very often we tend to look through the military lens first and we ask the question through what the military could do," Goldfein said, suggesting there could still be diplomatic and economic pressure applied to Iran.
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The senior White House official who briefed reporters Wednesday on the condition of anonymity said Trump remains "determined to follow through" on the US' efforts to crank up the diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea.
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But even as Trump cozied up to Xi and pressed China for help with derailing North Korea's nuclear ambitions, he has ratcheted up the economic pressure and threatened tariffs, a move opposed by many fellow Republicans.
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Eid al-Adha, along with Eid al-Fitr, became a public school holiday in 2015, and this year, despite the economic pressure of a changing industry, many drivers took Monday off to be with their children.
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U.S. officials suggested Kim was trying to ease the economic pressure on him to curb his nuclear programs and to undercut the rationale for U.S. troops being based in South Korea by improving relations with Seoul.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday sharply escalated economic pressure on Turkey by filing fraud and money-laundering charges against the country's second-largest state-owned bank, accusing it of helping Iran evade United States sanctions.
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With the rial flatlining, President Trump, with his new secretary of State and national security advisor in place, should move quickly to stymie the flow of hard currency into Iran and ratchet up the economic pressure.
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" The White House's general approach to North Korea, a senior White House official tells me, is "to work with allies and partners to apply maximum diplomatic and economic pressure to convince North Korea to change course.
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Pence told the Axios news outlet in an interview the United States would continue to intensify diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea and that the sanctions would not be lifted until it abandoned its weapons programs.
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The Cuban government has withstood the U.S. trade embargo for more than a half century and will not make any political concessions to the United States due to economic pressure, said Carlos Alzugaray, a retired Cuban diplomat.
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"They bring to bear economic pressure to separate the nation from the system ... but six U.S. presidents before him tried this and had to give up," Khamenei was quoted as saying on Saturday by his website Khamenei.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on American allies on Thursday to help impose economic pressure on Iran, and accused Tehran of continuing to sell weapons in the Middle East despite United Nations resolutions.
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To be sure, south Jersey's gaming scene is under straightforward economic pressure, with online apps sucking up potential clientele and the development of more upscale resorts closer to nearby metropolitan areas potentially putting a damper on profits.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's warm reception of Khan and a delegation including the army chief and the head of the powerful ISI intelligence service was a welcome relief to a government under increasing economic pressure at home.
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China's factory-gate inflation slowed for the fourth month in October amid cooling domestic demand for raw materials and ebbing manufacturing activity, underscoring rising economic pressure in the face of simmering trade frictions with the United States.
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Mr Xi may feel inclined to step up economic pressure on Taiwan, which is likely to elect an independence-leaning president on January 16th after eight years of rule by one who favoured closer ties with China.
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"If they lift sanctions, end the imposed economic pressure and return to the deal, we are ready to hold talks with America today, right now and anywhere,"Trump pulled the US out of the deal in 2018.
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After nearly seven years of war, hundreds of thousands of Syrians killed and a humanitarian disaster, Tillerson asked nations to keep up economic pressure on Assad but provide aid to areas no longer under Islamic State's control.
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Tensions in the region have been particularly high, considering the ongoing conflict in Yemen, Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, and the ongoing American diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran designed to thwart its nuclear program.
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But it took five years and multiple additional rounds of sanctions in 2011 and 2012 for economic pressure to build and for the U.S. and Iran to reach an agreement imposing sharp limits on Iran's nuclear program.
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On the other hand, Israel sees Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran deal as a significant step that will put heavy political and economic pressure on Iran and help in stopping its military entrenchment in Syria.
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Trump has tried to leverage China, North Korea's only major ally, to apply more economic pressure on Pyongyang to help stop its nuclear and missile programs and other acts of defiance against the U.S. and its allies.
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" He added: "It is vitally important that all nations work relentlessly to enforce those sanctions because the more economic pressure that can be brought on North Korea, the sooner that regime will be brought to its senses.
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Mr. Moon has alarmed conservatives by declaring that he would push for joint North-South Korean economic projects, even though the United States insists that this is not the time to ease economic pressure on the North.
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said after meeting Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono in London on Thursday that military options in North Korea did not look attractive and the best way forward was to intensify economic pressure.
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While the letter may have helped his efforts, it also crystallized the league's decision to bow to economic pressure from its partners in China over support in the United States for Morey and the Hong Kong protesters.
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In Jerusalem on Monday, Mnuchin said the United States would increase economic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, making the pledge during a Middle East trip that includes visits to U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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The two moves are part of the Trump administration's dual-track strategy for taming the nuclear threat from North Korea — ratcheting up economic pressure on the government through sanctions while simultaneously offering a diplomatic pathway to peace.
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The two men also said their countries agreed China should do more to discourage North Korea's nuclear arms development, though Mr. Pence praised Beijing for having taken "very welcome" steps recently to put economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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Trump has put significant economic pressure on China through tariffs, and China has responded with tariffs of its own -- as well as other non-tariff retaliatory measures like slower licensing and customs approvals to operate in China.
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READ: 350,000 Catalans just marched against independence It remains unclear whether Puigdemont will make a formal declaration of independence, as previously indicated, or adopt a more-nuanced position in the wake of growing political and economic pressure.
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BDS is an umbrella campaign launched by Palestinians and run by pro-Palestinian activists around the world that aims to apply economic pressure on Israel in order to push its government to concede to three main demands.
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HABUR BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to impose sanctions against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned independence vote, piling economic pressure on Kurdish authorities after Turkish troops deployed near the main commercial border crossing.
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The Spanish government stepped up economic pressure on the Catalan government on Friday by passing a law to make it easier for companies to move their operations around the country, potentially dealing a blow to the region's finances.
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"Economic pressure can be very, very effective when you're trying to get a change in policy that is not core to a country's national security interests, not core to a regime's sense of its own survival," Blanc said.
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The new strategy is to work with Cuba rather than against it: to attempt to improve life in the country through negotiations and commercial ties rather than attempting to topple the communist government through isolation and economic pressure.
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Trump said after a G7 summit of world leaders in Biarritz, France, that he believed China was sincere about wanting to reach a deal, citing what he described as increasing economic pressure on Beijing and job losses there.
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What they're saying... The Atlantic Council's David Mortlock told reporters today there is now "similar economic pressure" as existed before the 2015 nuclear deal, "but much less diplomatic and political isolation" since the Trump administration is acting alone.
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President Donald Trump's approach to levying tariffs on China in hopes of applying enough economic pressure to get Beijing to change its ways on trade has a better chance of working than many people expect, CNBC's said Monday.
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Additional economic pressure could come from targeting those banks that finance North Korea and building an international sanctions regime that would financially isolate Pyongyang in a manner similar to the pressure put on Iran before the nuclear deal.
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"Clearly, they are not a good replacement for European allies, because they don't engage Iran significantly, so they cannot put on the same commercial and economic pressure as the Europeans," Gedan said of Washington's allies in Latin America.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Wednesday the United States had carried out "exhaustive planning" on Venezuela and had contingency plans for different scenarios, adding that the focus was on diplomatic and economic pressure.
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Others worry economic pressure may not be enough, as North Korea sees the ability to successfully strike the Untied States with a nuclear weapon as the only viable way to prevent any American led attempts at regime change.
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Nor does he tell his readers that Lincoln supported slavery as late as 1858, and that his proclamation was in no small part a product of the political and economic pressure imposed on him by united abolitionist interests.
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As the economic pressure increases, the Communist Party is in a better position to rearrange the players, but it also raises the odds that Cuba winds up facing a crisis rather than transitioning to a more modern country.
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President Hassan Rouhani promised Iranians the government would be able to handle the economic pressure of new U.S. sanctions, a day after traders massed outside parliament, protesting against a sharp fall in the value of the national currency.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will order detailed punishment measures for officials in regions that miss air quality targets this winter, refusing to accept unfavorable weather or mounting economic pressure as excuses, an environment ministry official said on Monday.
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Even if greater economic pressure fails to drive out Maduro, going all-in could have the convenient side benefit of strengthening his 2020 reelection chances in Florida, where, along with Cuban-Americans, Venezuelan-Americans are key swing voters.
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"The United States military's priority is to support our government's efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through diplomatic and economic pressure," General Dunford was quoted as saying in a statement released by Mr. Moon's office.
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In essence, the Trump administration is asking China to apply maximum economic pressure on the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, so that he will relinquish his nuclear arsenal, or at least agree to negotiate on Washington's terms.
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The designations increase the economic pressure that the administration has applied to Iran since May 2018, when President Trump withdrew from an agreement that Iran had reached in 2015 with major world powers to limit its nuclear program.
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The simple fact is the economic pressure for having somewhere to send kids so their parents can work is so high that the quality of the care and education at those places is obviously a much lower priority.
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Even if the British economy's resilience in the immediate aftermath of the country's June 23 vote to leave the EU eases the economic pressure on Britain to press ahead with Brexit, May herself has said "Brexit means Brexit".
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U.S. President Donald Trump must decide by mid-January whether to continue the suspension of U.S. sanctions on Iran's oil exports under the pact, which eased economic pressure on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear programme.
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LONDON (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani promised Iranians on Tuesday the government would be able to handle the economic pressure of new U.S. sanctions amid a second day of demonstrations in protest at financial hardship and a weakening rial.
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The increase in trade, analysts say, is the latest indication that U.S. efforts to rein in North Korea by encouraging economic pressure from China, which is overwhelmingly the Hermit Kingdom's most significant trading partner, will ultimately bear little fruit.
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At today's UN Security Council ministerial meeting on the denuclearization of North Korea, the US will urge the council to lean on China for help dealing with their ally and to increase economic pressure over its nuclear weapons program.
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With global central banks shifting to a more accommodative monetary stance over recent months to fight growing economic pressure, traders and analysts say China will likely continue to provide stimulus as a trade dispute with the United States intensifies.
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Such braggadocio stems not from any shortcoming of the economic pressure track, but the lack of follow-through on a more integrated policy that deals with Iran in the region, as was promised in 2017 by the White House.
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Trump said after a G7 summit of world leaders in Biarritz, France, that he believed China was sincere about the desire to reach a deal, citing what he described as increasing economic pressure on Beijing and job losses there.
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"Placing the IRGC on the U.S. FTO list is consistent with the Trump administration's maximum pressure strategy on Iran for three reasons: "It ratchets up on the economic pressure on those who perpetuate malign activities at home and abroad.
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Though she didn't mention the the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement—which aims to increase political and economic pressure on Israel for its occupation of Palestinian territory—by name in her statement, she made her motives for cancelling clear.
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And while they've clashed at times, they have successfully guided the president toward a campaign of "maximum" economic pressure on Iran and military deployments to the Middle East that have helped bring us to the brink of armed conflict.
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While the administration was in sync on the need to apply maximum diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, the President's bellicose rhetoric and contemplation of military action against North Korea stoked deep divisions in the administration's top ranks.
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The more Iran strays from the understandings encapsulated in that agreement, the more difficult it becomes for Europe to continue to conduct "business as usual" with Tehran — and the more justified America's economic pressure on the Islamic Republic appears.
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Mahathir, a veteran strongman of the region who in May returned to the prime minister's office he had occupied for 22 years, told reporters that the United States is "a colonial power" that uses "economic pressure to cow people".
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But China has long resisted intensifying economic pressure on neighboring North Korea, in part out of fear of the instability that could mount on its doorstep, and Trump has not found a way to break through Beijing's old habits.
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"We have always believed in talks ... if they lift sanctions, end the imposed economic pressure and return to the deal, we are ready to hold talks with America today, right now and anywhere," Rouhani said in his Sunday speech.
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This means that the US has to somehow persuade North Korea to give up parts of its nuclear program, through some combination of carrots (offers to remove sanctions) and sticks (putting economic pressure on the Kim Jong Un regime).
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"We do not expect the SPV will in any way impact our maximum economic pressure campaign," said the spokeswoman on condition of anonymity, saying the department was closely following reports about the SPV to learn more about the mechanism.
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The Trump administration is creating a special envoy post to coordinate the United States' economic pressure campaign against Iran, the latest in a series of moves to cut off Tehran's revenue and force it into a new nuclear agreement.
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His senior aides say that it is too early to make that judgment, and that a combination of crushing economic pressure and stepped-up military patrols, missile defenses and practice bombing runs may eventually change Kim Jong-un's behavior.
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"Some countries are seeking to use military force as a tool to achieve geopolitical goals, apart from political, informational and economic pressure," Mr. Shoigu said, alluding to the Western sanctions imposed against Russia after its 2014 operations in Ukraine.
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Because the United States has no trade with the North, its strongest way to impose economic pressure is through "secondary sanctions" that threaten companies from third countries with losing access to the U.S. market if they deal with Pyongyang.
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Unfortunately, this successful accord was abandoned by the Trump administration in favor of a policy of extreme economic pressure and on-again, off-again military threats that have brought the Middle East to the brink of yet another war.
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US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley directly called out Russia and China in July, when she and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on other countries to maintain economic pressure on Pyongyang to push the country to denuclearize.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday promised Iranians the government would be able to handle the economic pressure of new U.S. sanctions amid reports of a second day of demonstrations in protest at financial hardship and a weakening rial.
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Yet it suggested that the rising diplomatic and economic pressure, meant to deny it the financial and material resources needed to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, may have had some effect on the North's leader Kim Jong-un.
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Iran is also pressuring European countries to intercede, and is getting dangerously close to breaching the terms of the 2015 deal in an attempt to force the EU to do more to ease the economic pressure campaign on Tehran.
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Faced with protests at its embassies around the world and threats of economic pressure from other nations, Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, on Friday pledged to deploy his country's military to battle fires that have ravaged the Amazon rainforest.
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Why it matters: If talks fail now, Pyongyang will have weathered some economic pressure, but also enjoyed a year of producing missiles and nuclear warheads, collecting praise from the U.S. president, and building new diplomatic ties with Moscow and Beijing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday and the two leaders pledged to continue to apply strong diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, the White House said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday there was no military aspect to steps taken by Arab powers against Qatar, which they accuse of supporting terrorism, but that further economic pressure could be applied.
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" TRUMP REIMPOSES IRAN SANCTIONS AP: "President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday reimposing many sanctions on Iran, three months after pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, saying the U.S. policy is to levy 'maximum economic pressure' on the country.
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Asked Wednesday about the possibility that US economic pressure on Iran contributed to its seizure of the British tanker and what the US would to do help get it back, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo essentially said it was London's problem.
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"These [police enforcement and surveillance] initiatives will only further barricade and quarantine Black communities that are already under economic pressure from government policies ushering in an unprecedented era of unaffordable housing and meagre job prospects for young people," the letter stated.
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U.S. President Donald Trump must decide by mid-January whether to continue waiving U.S. sanctions on Iran's oil exports under the terms of the nuclear pact that eased economic pressure on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
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Trump administration officials hope the U.S. and U.N. sanctions on North Korea, some of which date back to 2006, will push Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles in return for a lifting of the economic pressure.
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"The economic pressure that has been put in place by this global effort that President Trump has led has led him to believe that it is in his best interests to come to the table and talk about denuclearization," he added.
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Trump has previously rallied against the decision to lift sanctions, arguing that the lessening of economic pressure has provided a lifeline to the Iranian regime and emboldened the country's hardliners -- pointing to Iran's ballistic missile tests as evidence of this.
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The death toll, which is expected to rise to nearly 300, reflects the mounting economic pressure on Egyptians as well as a possible shift away from Libya as a point of departure for migrants headed to Europe, migrant aid workers said.
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On Thursday, Israel barred the two from traveling to to the country, due to their support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions or BDS movement, a movement that aims at putting economic pressure on Israel over the conditions of the Palestinians.
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"President Trump has put economic pressure on the North Koreans and it appears to have given us an opening — this real opportunity for something that would be transformative for the world if we can achieve it," Pompeo said on ABC.
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Previous U.S. sanctions had targeted Maduro's personal assets and the personal assets of several of his close associates inside the U.S., but had not put significant economic pressure on the government as a whole or on Maduro's assets in Venezuela.
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Trump also used a large portion of his address to tout his administration's plans to launch a "campaign of economic pressure" aimed at starving Iran of money it would use "to advance its bloody agenda" in the Middle East and beyond.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday the United States would increase economic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, making the pledge during a Middle East trip that includes visits to U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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He played a key role in a North Korea policy review earlier this year that recommended stressing diplomatic and economic pressure over military options but did not result in any major new policy prescriptions distinct from former President Barack Obama's approach.
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The Taj Mahal joins the Atlantic Club, Showboat, Trump Plaza and Revel in the growing club of Atlantic City casinos that, since 2014, have succumbed to economic pressure brought about in large measure by competition from casinos in neighboring states.
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The tariffs mostly targeted high-tech Chinese products to put economic pressure on Beijing's "Made in China 2025" program, a government initiative to transform the country into an advanced manufacturing powerhouse in areas like biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles.
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The right way for Congress to get internet companies to deal with serious online problems like sexual abuse is, counterintuitively, to leave those companies alone—to leverage public backlash and economic pressure to get them to take action against bad actors.
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But while Russia has worked steadily since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union to weaken Ukraine and keep it within Moscow's orbit of influence — first through economic pressure and political meddling and then military aggression — Ukraine has also enfeebled itself.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not expect a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) being set up by European nations to facilitate trade with Iran to affect its "maximum economic pressure" campaign against Tehran, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Tuesday, keeping up its economic pressure campaign even as it offered to help Tehran cope with the coronavirus pandemic and called on the Islamic Republic to release detained Americans.
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Under economic pressure from the West, Sri Lanka turned east to China, which happily poured billions of dollars into the country as part of its "String of Pearls" strategy to spread its economic and military influence in the Indian Ocean.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Tuesday, keeping up its economic pressure campaign even as it offered to help Tehran cope with the coronavirus pandemic and called on the Islamic Republic to release detained Americans.
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The General Assembly gives the administration an opportunity to "continue to slow walk a military response in favor of more coalition-building and political and economic pressure," said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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"The two leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation, and exert stronger and practical sanctions on North Korea so that it realizes provocative actions leads to further diplomatic isolation and economic pressure," Blue House spokesman Park Soo-hyun said in a televised briefing.
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Other regulations enacted under Obama's tenure, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, have also been successful in intensifying the economic pressure on coal by forcing many old coal plants to add scrubbers or go offline, and many have retired.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers said Wednesday that they would continue to impose maximum economic pressure on North Korea, which evades international sanctions with a network of front and shell companies to access the global financial system.
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"We're here together because we think it's important to send a very clear message that we are going to respond to North Korean aggression by further ratcheting up economic pressure so that we can have a serious negotiation," Van Hollen said.
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It was an irony that escaped few European officials: They were trying to find ways to ease the economic pressure on Iran and keep it in the nuclear deal, while Washington was trying to increase that pressure for unclear ends.
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It's about the endurance of quality journalism — expensive to produce, and under economic pressure as never before — at a time when false, cost-free "reportage" about things like "millions of illegal votes" can gain enough prominence to drive federal initiatives.
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It would only happen "when all the obstacles that threaten our safety and check our development are removed completely without a shadow of doubt," he said, in an apparent reference to North Korea's desire for Washington to ease economic pressure.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he had signed a new executive order expanding the U.S. government's authority to target individuals, companies and financial institutions with ties to North Korea, escalating the U.S. campaign of economic pressure against the repressive regime.
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Instead, Mr. Tillerson and Mr. Mattis publicly pressed the Chinese to exert more diplomatic and economic pressure on Pyongyang, though President Trump indicated on Twitter on Tuesday that he had just about given up on obtaining help from the Chinese.
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Blacklisted, too, is Alexei Miller, the CEO of Russia's state natural gas giant, Gazprom, which plays a key part in the Kremlin's global energy diplomacy and which has been integral to Russia's ongoing campaign of economic pressure against neighboring Ukraine.
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During last year's spat, Trump had imposed higher tariffs on imports of Turkish steel and aluminum to put economic pressure on NATO member Turkey to force it to release Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who was detained there over terrorism charges.
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In abandoning the agreement and imposing sanctions that it had lifted as well as adding new ones, the United States is betting the economic pressure will force Iran to change its behavior and agree to a new, much more restrictive deal.
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"There is at least not as much of a fear of an outcome of a pandemic that will have as much economic pressure globally as maybe initially was thought," said Delores Rubin, senior equities trader at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management in New York.
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Worried about a potential flare-up into full conflict, Egypt and the United Nations have sought to calm Gaza, while Qatar in November pledged $150 million in donations, to be transferred via Israel over six months, in hope of easing economic pressure.
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The case involved the group BDS France (BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), part of a growing international movement that says it wants to use economic pressure to fight for the rights of Palestinians, but that some critics accuse of being anti-Semitic.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Germany said on Thursday it was seeking additional details about a new European mechanism to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran, but did not expect it to affect its effort to apply maximum economic pressure on Tehran.
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On May 8th President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would abrogate parts of the deal and gave the remaining signatories—Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the European Union—60 days to work out how to relieve the economic pressure it was under.
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Cheng Xiaohe, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, said China had several ways of increasing economic pressure, including by limiting the number of tourists allowed to visit North Korea or by reducing Chinese imports of commodities like coal.
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" It requires the secretary of state "to submit a report to Congress assessing diplomatic negotiations with North Korea, the threat posed by North Korean nuclear and missile programs, and US efforts to exert economic pressure on North Korea, in coordination with our allies.
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"China has already engaged in one of its most assertive influence campaigns in recent history to prevent the THAAD deployment, encompassing threatening leadership speeches, alarming media commentary, and most recently coercive economic pressure that has included government-sanctioned trade boycotts," Weitz said.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The United States does not expect a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) being set up by European nations to facilitate trade with Iran to affect its "maximum economic pressure" campaign against Tehran, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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The prevailing argument in Seoul and Washington — wishful thinking, critics say — was that the North would eventually buckle under economic pressure, or perhaps even implode under the untested leadership of Kim Jong-un, the young leader who came to power in late 2011.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German parliament voted on Friday to condemn as anti-Semitic a movement that calls for economic pressure on Israel to end the occupation of Palestinian land, grant Arab citizens equal rights and recognize the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
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In the face of that emerging situation, Thae said he supports building on the momentum that has been achieved through additional diplomatic and economic pressure on the North Korean leadership in addition to strengthening cooperation with South Korea and the global community.
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"As North Korea continues to threaten international peace and security, we are steadfast in our determination to maximize economic pressure to isolate it from outside sources of trade and revenue while exposing its evasive tactics," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said at the time.
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Since taking office, President Donald Trump has tried to get China, North Korea's only major ally, to apply more economic pressure on Pyongyang to help stop its nuclear and missile programs and other acts of defiance against the U.S. and its allies.
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It is not clear whether Trump's comments will move China, which has taken steps to increase economic pressure on Pyongyang but has long been unwilling to do anything that may destabilize the North and send millions of refugees across the border into China.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has told OPEC that it opposes delaying the oil producer group's next meeting, setting the scene for another fight with fellow members as U.S. sanctions put Tehran under unprecedented economic pressure with its oil exports down to just a trickle.
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Certainly it will take time for Kim Jong Un's regime to feel the kind of severe and threatening economic pressure that might compel it to make serious changes to its nuclear program, or which might compel a change in government in Pyongyang.
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Since the bulk of companies began reporting their quarterly results in July, that upward economic pressure has erupted in gushers of profits, especially at some of the giant technology-centered firms that have been hugely influential in determining how the stock markets move.
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The move suggested that for now, at least, the president was still committed to applying economic pressure rather than military action, despite his vow this week to "totally destroy North Korea" if the United States were forced to defend itself or its allies.
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Mr. Trump has said that the threat posed by North Korea's missile tests and nuclear weapons development is so grave that it may require temporarily setting aside contentious issues with China, in exchange for Beijing's exerting more political and economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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"The United States military's priority is to support our government's efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through diplomatic and economic pressure," General Dunford was quoted as saying in a Korean-language statement released by Mr. Moon's office after the meeting.
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These measures, along with new restrictions on Iran's metals and textile industries, are unlikely to have significant economic impact, but for Tehran, new U.S. economic pressure will only be seen as a further confirmation of Trump's aggressive and uncompromising approach to Iran.
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He said it would only happen "when all the obstacles that threaten our safety and check our development are removed completely without a shadow of doubt", however, an apparent reference to North Korea's desire to see Washington ease economic pressure on it.
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However, because of the lopsided terms of the deal, were it to be rescinded today, Iran would be able to achieve the same thing, rebuilding its nuclear program much faster than the United States could reestablish meaningful economic pressure to constrain Iranian behavior.
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"This body has long advocated for increasing the military capacity and capabilities of Ukraine — a fledgling democracy that is pro-West and pro-United States and since 2014 has been under increased military, political and economic pressure from Russia," the senators wrote.
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Supporters of the report have expressed hope that it could add momentum to an international movement to boycott Israel, which they see as similar to the global campaign of economic pressure on South Africa that helped end apartheid in the early 1990s.
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Mr. Trump has tried working with China to curb North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, even setting aside his America First trade agenda in an effort to persuade President Xi Jinping to put more economic pressure on the government of Kim Jong-un.
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The total is just short of CAAM's full-year forecast of 5 percent, set in January when it blamed the scaling back of a tax incentive for small-engine vehicles as well as economic pressure for pulling growth down from 2016's 13.7 percent.
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BERLIN, May 17 (Reuters) - The German parliament voted on Friday to condemn as anti-Semitic a movement that calls for economic pressure on Israel to end the occupation of Palestinian land, grant Arab citizens equal rights and recognize the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
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As long as oil prices are in the current band, the U.S. market will remain buoyant, and there will likely be intense economic pressure on the world's petro-states, like Russia and Saudi Arabia, most of which are having to support themselves through deficit spending.
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The underlying message being, if big banks are going to apply economic pressure to political processes, citizen consumers can push back and express their displeasure by wielding their PINs and emptying cash points — in a sort of non-digital, distributed denial of (cash) services attack.
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North Korea has "an impressive track record over its whole history, going back to the 1940s when it was founded, of being able to ... weather virtually any kind of economic pressure," John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University in South Korea, told CNN Money.
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"The irony here is, if China amped up economic pressure on North Korea, it might lead to a collapse -- which would mean more refugees even if a military conflict doesn't take place," said Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative-leaning DC think tank.
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U.S. President Donald Trump also has increased economic pressure on Iran, moving to cut off all its oil exports, to try to get Tehran to curb its nuclear and missile programs as well as end support for proxies in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
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White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster told "Fox News Sunday" that President Donald Trump is prepared to take action against North Korea but is working to convince China, Russia and other nations to use more economic pressure to help curb its nuclear ambitions.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's oil industry is on the frontline of the fight against "the enemy", Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Monday, adding that Tehran would do its utmost to counter U.S.-led efforts to put economic pressure on the country.
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BERLIN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Germany said on Thursday it was seeking additional details about a new European mechanism to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran, but did not expect it to affect its effort to apply maximum economic pressure on Tehran.
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Regime survival While the US has tried to ramp up diplomatic and economic pressure on the North Korean leadership through additional sanctions and tough rhetoric, those efforts have done little to slow Kim's march toward developing a reliable nuclear-tipped long range ballistic missile.
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A decree this month to cut the bank off from the outside world is aimed at using economic pressure to vanquish the Houthi fighters of the Zaydi branch of Shi'ite Islam, who have ruled the capital and most of northern Yemen for nearly two years.
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"The United States will continue to work with other countries, including the members of the U.N. Security Council, to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on (North Korea) to convince the regime to abandon its illegal nuclear weapons and missile development programs," the official added.
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LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - Iran has told OPEC that it opposes delaying the oil producer group's next meeting, setting the scene for another fight with fellow members as U.S. sanctions put Tehran under unprecedented economic pressure with its oil exports down to just a trickle.
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Gadi Eisenkot, chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who have called for alleviating economic pressure on Gaza, including by increasing economic aid, as a way to reduce the likelihood that tensions there could boil over into another war with Israel.
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The second is collapse as the result of Israel's punishing economic, military and political power, and political and economic pressure, mostly American, in response to Palestinian steps that violate the status quo, such as petitioning the International Criminal Court or leading a non-militarized uprising.
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"The United States military's priority is to support our government's efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through diplomatic and economic pressure," General Dunford was quoted as saying in a Korean-language statement released by Mr. Moon's office after the meeting on Monday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear to his national security team over the last few weeks that he wants to end the waivers to exert "maximum economic pressure" on Iran by cutting off its oil exports and reducing its main revenue source to zero.
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While Moscow and Beijing have cooperated with Washington in applying economic pressure against Iran and North Korea, that could change if the Trump administration continues to take unilateral steps that punish the Russian and Chinese economies without first attempting to establish a broader legitimacy.
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In a counterpoint to the possibility of talks, a former American ambassador to China, Winston Lord, in a report issued last week by the Asia Society on the future of relations between the United States and China, urged heightening economic pressure on North Korea.
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The Trump administration has been encouraging Beijing to put economic pressure on North Korea to curtail its nuclear and missile tests, and the Chinese state news media recently hinted that the government would cut off fuel supplies if Pyongyang conducted its sixth atomic detonation.
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In this sense, the early Iranian response was consistent with the theocratic state's calibrated, incremental escalation against U.S. interests and partners in Iraq and around the Persian Gulf over the past six months, when Washington ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran to unprecedented levels.
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Since its third nuclear test in 2013, China has been more comfortable with economic pressure as part of the policy mix regarding North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK), but it is still unwilling to push Pyongyang to the point of destabilization.
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Mark Dubowitz, the head of the foreign policy think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told CNN on Thursday that he had made the case to White House and State Department officials to intensify their economic pressure campaign prior to Trump pulling back military strikes on Iran.
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The administration cranked up economic pressure that is already devastating Iran's economy Monday with the new sanctions also targeting Iran's top military brass and its top diplomat in a manner that casts new doubt over the sincerity of its offer of talks with the Islamic Republic.
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And the pressure that you see, the economic pressure we have applied, the sanctions that we've put in place, the efforts we've made to help Iraq stand up its own independent sovereign government, the support we provide to Lebanon, are all aimed at the same thing.
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French oil company Total SA has announced it would abandon a billion dollar deal made with Iran if it did not obtain a waiver from the United States, which the administration has not rejected outright (though it has vowed to put "maximum economic pressure" on Iran).
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Yes, diplomacy and economic pressure were critical, but even several of Mr. Obama's top aides doubted as recently as a year ago that, in the end, Iran's mullahs and generals would actually dismantle a program in which they had invested both national pride and billions of dollars.
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The sheer scale of the digital world can make it feel more dangerous than the "real" one, both inside and outside VR. But the internet can also provide spaces to engage with people you would never meet offline, safe from threats of physical force or economic pressure.
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Rouhani also gave the other signatories to the deal 22019 days to help curtail the US sanctions and ease the economic pressure; otherwise, it would begin to enrich uranium beyond the threshold set in the nuclear deal, becoming a little closer to getting a nuclear bomb.
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So another possible reason for the briefing is that administration officials — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford — will discuss further toughening of economic pressure on North Korea.
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So while this relationship has enabled China to apply economic pressure to North Korea -- such as China's restrictions on coal imports from North Korea -- propping up the Kim regime is also as much in the CCP's own interests and perhaps vital for the CCP's long-term survival.
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While China's economic pressure has been pivotal in bringing Kim to the negotiating table, Beijing worries Kim might now agree to a deal that brings his country closer to its old enemies and further from its traditional ally, which has seen it through famine and global isolation.
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"As North Korea continues to threaten international peace and security, we are steadfast in our determination to maximize economic pressure to isolate it from outside sources of trade and revenue while exposing its evasive tactics," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a statement, detailing the new sanctions.
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"As North Korea continues to threaten international peace and security, we are steadfast in our determination to maximize economic pressure to isolate it from outside sources of trade and revenue while exposing its evasive tactics," said Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinPelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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"As we continue applying maximum economic pressure on the Iranian regime, I remain open to reaching a more comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime's malign activities, including its ballistic missile program and its support for terrorism," Trump said in his Monday statement.
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But North Korea didn't earn the nickname "hermit kingdom" for nothing and can likely survive even drastic measures for at least a period of time by drawing down domestic stockpiles and inflicting even greater suffering on the North Korean people while insulating regime activities from economic pressure.
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Taking additional military steps in Syria — whether to curb Assad's brutal tactics, protect civilians, or maintain a focus on ISIS and al-Qaida alone — must be folded into a holistic framework that includes diplomatic coercion, economic pressure, and support for local governance, security, and development in Syria.
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In early August, after Trump and Kim Jong-un began exchanging warlike noises, Mattis and Tillerson responded by writing a joint op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, emphasizing that "diplomatic and economic pressure" were the administration's chief tools, not the "fire and fury" Trump had promised.
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"It worked in Panama, it worked in Nicaragua once, and it will work there again, and it will work in Venezuela and Cuba," Bolton said of sweeping economic pressure, putting a remarkably optimistic spin on a more than half-century-old Cuba embargo that definitely hasn't worked.
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Mr. Brook noted that Professor Davis has supported the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, known as B.D.S., which seeks to apply economic pressure to Israel until it ends the occupation of the West Bank, treats Palestinians equally under the law and allows the return of Palestinian refugees.
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Thursday's sanctions were intended to send two messages: that the Trump administration will continue to ratchet up economic pressure on Pyongyang until North Korea ends its nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, and that the relationship between the United States and Turkey continues to be troubled.
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"You have seen unanimous United Nations Security Council resolutions passed that have increased the pressure, economic pressure, and diplomatic pressure, on the North, and at the same time, we maintain the capability to deter North Korea's most dangerous threats," he told reporters in the Indian capital.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday announced a new round of sanctions against Iran's national bank, escalating economic pressure on the country as the president's national security advisers review a list of targets for a potential strike in retaliation for recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil fields.
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Finally, it said, it would try to put economic pressure on bad actors in three ways: by banning disputed stories from its advertising ecosystem; by making it harder to impersonate credible sites on the platform; and, crucially, by penalizing websites that are loaded with too many ads.
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The challenge for the administration in contemplating economic pressure is that it would be all but impossible to reassemble the international coalition that imposed draconian sanctions on Iran's oil and banking industries — and drew Iran into negotiations that resulted in the agreement limiting its nuclear program.
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But with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro getting close to defaulting on Venezuela's $28503 billion in foreign debt, the Trump administration needs to take steps to protect the United States from the fallout of a default while keeping up the economic pressure against Maduro's increasingly autocratic government.
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In addition to the obvious economic advantage of paying less for the same level of opportunity for a child — and gaining access to high-quality schools — reducing the economic pressure on parents may encourage them to work fewer hours and devote more time to child care.
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"I've also emphasized the importance of maintaining diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization of the DPRK as agreed to by Chairman Kim," he said, referring to the isolated north Asian nation by its official title, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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As my colleague Jennifer Williams noted, Trump has so far taken only the relatively modest steps of beginning the deployment of the THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system to South Korea while pressuring China — North Korea's most important ally — to put more diplomatic and economic pressure on Pyongyang.
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The Trump administration seems to believe that intense economic pressure will cause one of the most heavily regulated and policed societies on earth to suddenly throw off its shackles, unseat the clerics who rule the country, and usher in a new generation of young, Western-minded moderates to power.
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"The group's results were supported by double-digit growth in service revenue by both MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana, while economic pressure, new data usage rules and a reassessment of recognition criteria for roaming revenue from Cell C impacted our performance in South Africa," Shuter said in a statement.
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But after the British handed formal control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, and as political and economic pressure from China intensified, more and more people in the city have identified as Hong Kongers rather than as Chinese, Chinese living in Hong Kong or Hong Kong-Chinese.
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Some proposals to strengthen the EU's effectiveness face an uphill battle against member state opposition, notably scrapping national vetoes in some foreign policy areas, such as where economic pressure from the likes of Russia or China on certain EU countries has blocked EU sanctions to defend human rights.
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"Given the current circumstances and hostile actions of the United States, the country's withdrawal from the JCPOA and continuation of hostile policies, its efforts to put economic pressure on the Iranian people and its sanctions, I think there are no conditions for such a discussion at all," Qassemi said.
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A senior administration official told CNN that this action should not be seen as a sign the US is ramping up economic pressure on North Korea but as part of the continuous push to ensure that entities and countries are not taking their foot off the gas pedal.
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Many of the tariffs Trump imposed so far have mostly targeted high-tech Chinese products to put economic pressure on Beijing's "Made in China 2025" program — a Chinese government initiative to transform the country into an advanced manufacturing powerhouse, in areas like biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles.
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North Korea issues new warning But despite Trump's optimism, the US and North Korea talks have again hit an impasse following the Hanoi summit as Pyongyang is demanding sanctions relief before it begins to denuclearize, while the US insists that Pyongyang relinquish its nuclear weapons before any economic pressure is eased.
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The US has "made a decision -- and it's a decision that's been made with all of our allies and partners on this issue -- to maximize pressure, economic pressure, on the North Korean regime to try to get it to make tangible steps to roll back their illegal programs," Thornton said.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farm incomes and agrarian credit conditions continued to erode in the third quarter of 2018, as economic pressure from the U.S.-China trade war has bankers seeing loan repayment rates fall, according to separate reports released on Thursday by the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and St. Louis.
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"The two leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation, and exert stronger and practical sanctions on North Korea so that it realizes provocative actions leads to further diplomatic isolation and economic pressure," Blue House spokesman for South Korea's presidential office, Park Soo-hyun, said in a televised briefing, according to the news service.
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Opinion Columnist On Monday, in an interview with The Intercept, Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who in November became the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress, went public with her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to use economic pressure on Israel to secure Palestinian rights.
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"Thus, although the Leffmanns felt economic pressure during the undeniably horrific circumstances of the Nazi and Fascist regimes, that pressure, when not caused by the counterparties to the transaction (or the defendant) where the duress is alleged, is insufficient to prove duress with respect to the transaction," Judge Preska wrote.
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For the moment, despite his bellicose language, Mr. Trump has chosen the path of economic pressure, signing a new order on Thursday intended to cut North Korea off from the international banking system with measures that, in some ways, went significantly beyond previous efforts to punish outlier nations like Iran.
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Although the U.S. has begun to apply economic pressure on the Palestinians, we have continued to send mixed messages by our continued political engagement with the PA. Recently, for example, large delegations of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress visited Israel and actively sought meetings with PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
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During his speech, Pence cited his longstanding relationship with the group, saying he had spoken before them as a member of Congress and worked with them on legislation he signed as governor against the boycott, divestment and sanction movement, a campaign to put economic pressure on Israel over the treatment of Palestinians.
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"There were many villages specializing in running coal mines and when the mines were shut down we lost around four-fifths of our income - we were under huge economic pressure," said Meng Qinqxi, a senior Communist Party official in Mazhuang, a village on the outskirts of the heavy industrial city of Xuzhou.
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While Mr. Rouhani portrayed the announcement on Tuesday — as well as three previous steps it had taken beyond the deal's limits — as reversible, Iran has made clear that it would step back only if the European signatories to the deal find a way to relieve the economic pressure caused by the American sanctions.
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In announcing his plan to abandon the Iran nuclear deal last week, President Donald Trump said he planned to reintroduce the highest level of economic pressure on the Iranian regime -- an indication that Tuesday's sanctions are likely just the tip of the iceberg as the administration works to tighten the vice on Tehran.
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Turning to Asia, Pence's approach to North Korea may not vary appreciably from the current strategy — ramp up economic pressure and sanctions and convince China to play a more assertive role in reigning in Kim Jong-un — but Pence will refrain from Trump's Twitter baiting and will tamp down the bellicose rhetoric.
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"As part of the administration's maximum pressure strategy, we have asked all countries around the world to put diplomatic and economic pressure on the DPRK, whose regime threatens international peace and security with its unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile development, dangerous support for international terrorism and other malicious activities," the official told CNN.
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While the president's decision to slap tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods has created economic pain for American companies and consumers, lawmakers and many industry groups have gone along with the idea in the hopes that economic pressure would force China to change trade practices that have long disadvantaged American businesses.
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The economic pressure brought Beijing to the negotiating table but Mr. Trump ultimately backed down, agreeing to a Phase 1 trade deal that would reduce some tariffs and remove the threat of additional levies in exchange for China buying more farm goods and giving American companies more access to the Chinese market.
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Top Trump administration officials on Wednesday warned publicly and privately that the US is nearing an inflection point in its efforts to pressure North Korea into abandoning its bellicose behavior, suggesting that Trump might seek to crank up diplomatic and economic pressure on China -- which accounts for nearly 90% of North Korea's foreign trade.
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Good luck getting France, or the United Kingdom, or Germany, much less Russia or China, to join in a campaign of maximum economic pressure on Tehran after the Trump administration has walked away from a painstakingly negotiated multilateral deal that was working to achieve its only stated objective -- stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
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" The role of the United States The US is keeping up its economic pressure on both the state oil industry and on high-ranking Maduro loyalists -- on Friday, the US Treasury Department released a statement advising that "persons operating in the defense and security sector of the Venezuelan economy may be subject to sanctions.
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Maduro's next counter-moves could involve insisting his delegation is still committed to Norway-sponsored mediation with Guaidó while laying the groundwork for condemnation of harsh American sanctions at the UN. Trump could face a choice to escalate his embargo to a full blockade if the new economic pressure does not tilt support toward Guaidó.
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But the organization was so aggressive that social media accounts linked to it went after people it perceived to be too soft on Iran, at a time when the Trump administration is exerting what it calls "maximum pressure," ratcheting up military and economic pressure on Iran after pulling out of the landmark nuclear deal known as the JCPOA.
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The Trump administration's unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and its campaign of maximum economic pressure on Iran has ushered in a period of uncertainty that leaves both sides in a potentially dangerous cycle, each taking escalatory steps that increase the odds of a military conflict, particularly in the absence of a direct channel for deescalation.
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"We need an all-hands push to make sure that China feels the pain of this and is engaged in putting more economic pressure on North Korea, and frankly, to escalate the preparations for our vital allies in the region to make sure that South Korea and Japan have the anti-missile defenses they are seeking," Delaware Democratic Sen.
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But for some time now, the president's obsession with imperial warmongering has focused on toppling the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro, whether via economic pressure, a U.S.-sponsored military coup, or provoking a joint invasion by Brazil—led by that great democrat Jair Bolsonaro—and Colombia, where "democracy" has been built on mass graves for the past half-century.
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It's the summer of 211, and the psychokinetic Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) and her friends have their hands full: Apart from the economic pressure on the small town created by the shiny new Starcourt Mall, there are also inexplicable rat infestations and weird magnetic malfunctions, not to mention the mysterious voices and cryptic codes being transmitted on local airwaves.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council placed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday that significantly choke off fuel supplies and order North Koreans working overseas to return home, in what may prove the last test of whether any amount of economic pressure can force the isolated country to reverse course on its nuclear weapons program.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a commentary in the Wall Street Journal the United States was adopting a policy of "strategic accountability" towards North Korea, and was applying diplomatic and economic pressure "to achieve the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and a dismantling of the regime's ballistic-missile programs".
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — Pressed this week to define President Trump's goals in escalating military and economic pressure on Iran, one of his top foreign policy aides ticked through a familiar list: End the country's support for terrorism, stop its missile launches and then, most important, keep Iran more than a year away from the capability to build a nuclear weapon.
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Turnbull told a news conference in South Australia state his discussions with Trump included the ongoing threats from North Korea after the U.S. president opened the possibility of talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "The president and I are both very much of the same mind - that there must be no relenting in the economic pressure on North Korea," Turnbull said.
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Nor has Mr. Trump persuaded Mr. Putin to increase economic pressure on North Korea, whose nuclear program is now dominating the administration's foreign policy; to stop the dangerous face-offs with American warplanes over the Baltic Sea; or to come back into compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement of 1987 by withdrawing the deployment of a banned missile.
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Turnbull told a news conference in South Australia state his discussions with Trump included the ongoing threats from North Korea after the U.S. president opened the possibility of talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "The president and I are both very much of the same mind - that there must be no relenting in the economic pressure on North Korea," Turnbull said.
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"I would propose to ministers today to strengthen the economic pressure on North Korea, supporting a new U.N. Security Council resolution adopting tougher economic measures, starting new autonomous EU sanctions... and working with other partners in the world to make sure that everybody implements fully and strictly the already-decided economic measures," Mogherini told reporters before meeting the EU defense and foreign ministers in the Estonian capital.
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Having said that, I think it&aposs important to keep up the pressure on North Korea, the diplomatic pressure, the economic -- the political pressure, but not least the economic pressure, because we have to make sure that we reach a solution which leads to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and also that North Korea stop developing nuclear weapons and stop developing their ballistic missiles.
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The impaired loans ratio has been deteriorating over the last four years, reflecting a lack of domestic loan growth and economic pressure encountered by corporates and SMEs (about 60% of loan portfolio at end-2015), a still challenging operating environment in Tunisia (Attijariwafa Tunisie: 6.8% impaired loans ratio) and weak economies in sub-Saharan African countries (average impaired loans ratio at AWB's subsidiaries of 10.6%).
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Rather than address Iran's wider interference across the Middle East and beyond its borders, Trump's strategy is designed to accomplish one of two difficult outcomes — that increased U.S. economic pressure on Tehran will force it to capitulate to Trump's demands to improve upon the "worst deal ever," or that such pressure would weaken the already fragile Islamic Republic and lead to political change in Tehran.
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The online attacks, along with more traditional military options, could escalate, if Iran does not buckle under economic pressure or follows through on the warning it issued on Monday: It would soon breach the 2015 accord's limits on how much low-enriched nuclear fuel it can hold, and it was pointedly leaving open the possibility of further enriching the fuel, edging it closer to the purity necessary to build a bomb.
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The U.S. health regulator approved GW Pharmaceuticals' epilepsy treatment, making it the first cannabis-based drug to win approval in the country and opening floodgates for more research into the medicinal properties of cannabis World President Hassan Rouhani promised Iranians the government would be able to handle the economic pressure of new U.S. sanctions, a day after traders massed outside parliament to protest at a sharp fall in the value of the national currency.
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Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (R-Colo.) wrote in an op-ed for CNN on Wednesday that President Trump and his administration should endorse a global trade embargo on North Korea and called for increased economic pressure against the rogue nation.
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Now, Trump is restoring economic pressure in hopes of forcing the Iranian regime to choose — as Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE made clear in his recent speech outlining the administration's Iran policy — between its nuclear program and terror sponsorship or the solvency of its economy.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and South Korean President Moon Jae In on Friday pledged to continue a regime of diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, and Trump gave "conceptual approval" to a multi-billion dollar military equipment sale to South Korea.
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With there being every reason to think that China will not lightly accede to U.S. economic pressure and with every reason to believe that China is itself underestimating President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's political resolve in this matter, an early end to the trade war would require President Trump to dial down the temperature in this dispute.
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These developments remind us (if, alas, anyone needs reminding) that a regime that was born from the fires of a theocratic revolution in 1979 maintains its foundational fervor; that its ambitions extend far beyond its borders; that the United States and its allies would be better advised to ramp up the political and economic pressure on the regime rather than launch more misguided efforts to coax it to moderation; and that the West should put its moral voice behind the long-suffering Iranian people.
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The demonstrations seem to be spontaneous and without a clear leader, cropping up in working-class neighbourhoods and smaller cities, but the movement also seems to be gaining traction among the educated middle class and activists who took part in the 2009 protests Ebadi called on Iranians to stop paying water, gas and electricity bills and taxes and to withdraw their money from state banks to exert economic pressure on the government and so force it to stop resorting to violence and meet their demands.
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