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In 2017, it represented ... 38 percent of global power generation.
"It gives us global reach and global power," Palicka said.
Putin wants to be respected as a global power player.
And the projection of global power was proof of strength.
Victory in war led to global power and economic power.
"(Xi) wants to establish China as a global power," Rafferty said.
The global power sector still remains heavily dependent on coal, too.
Kennedy argued in his classic study of global power shifts that
Politically manipulated weather patterns can drastically shift the global power dynamic.
However, manipulated weather patterns could drastically shift the global power dynamic.
But relative global power is a zero-sum game, Wu says.
Military personnel should not be pawns in a global power game.
America First makes China look like the more responsible global power.
China needs to take on the responsibilities of a global power.
Russia has greater economic disparity than any other major global power.
The Olympics were meant to showcase Brazil's rise as a global power.
One worldly enough to become a global power centre befitting Britain's importance.
Moscow is trying once again to project itself as a global power.
The underlying changes in global power relations have already undermined that order.
And then it was back to flexing America's global power as usual.
China has already emerged as a global power broker on climate change.
The citizens of Venezuela have become pawns in a global power game.
Worst of all, probably, its power consumption, I mean, I'm sure you've read about these things, but it's a little bit shocking that the percentage of global power ... bitcoin alone represents almost 1 percent of global power consumption.
This calls to mind the rise of the US as a global power.
There is no doubt America will remain a dominant global power for decades.
And as the U.S. steps offstage, another global power, China, has stepped in.
And the United States is a global power with an increasingly diverse population.
These included "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power" in 2012.
"America is a global power, and it affects the entire world," Julia said.
The other two are owned by Spanish companies Acciona and Global Power Generation.
Whatever the motivation, the damage to global power and telecom networks is significant.
Global Power, part of Thailand's largest energy firm PTT PCL, declined to comment.
The once snooze-worthy global power fest now looks like diplomacy on steroids.
At the same time, he restored Russia's position as a global power broker.
After all access, basing and overflight are critical to U.S. global power projection.
Why it matters: Right now, offshore wind provides just 0.2% of global power.
Shifting dynamics are roiling the huge conglomerates that serve the global power industry.
At the turn of the 20th century, America emerged as a global power.
China is a rising global power that cannot be ignored, especially in Asia.
Technology went from a backwater industry to the forefront of global power and commerce.
USB has the potential to do more than solve the global power-outlet problem.
If that happens, solar PV could provide 30 to 50 percent of global power.
Siemens offered to swap its trains business plus cash for Alstom's global power assets.
Roman. In 53 years, these guys came from nothingness and became a global power.
The country's reputation as a global power in boxing and baseball is well documented.
Having a second global power gives the United States two distinct foreign policy choices.
This is much lower than the $120-140 typically achieved in the global power sector.
Is it just another cog in the wheel powering China's meteoric rise to global power?
The meeting with Francis has helped to underscore Russia's renewed standing as a global power.
That change, Blair believes, will be the emergence of China as the dominant global power.
History suggests that the latter will be essential to global power, both military and economic.
Yet Americans may be the last people to recognize the changing shape of global power.
Opinion Columnist In 6.93, The Economist wrote about an up-and-coming global power: Brazil.
In his final campaign ad, Trump warned of the "global power structure" that controlled Washington.
This means that global power sector greenhouse gas emissions will not peak until after 2040.
The only quibble he had was with Facebook's reluctance to acknowledge itself as a global power.
Still, Ukraine has enabled Putin to re-establish Russia's reputation as a top-tier global power.
But it is a conspicuous symbol of the country's ambitions as a maritime and global power.
Renewable electricity grows to 40% of the global power mix, largely driven by solar and wind.
The big picture: Today renewables account for about 25% of global power generation, according to IEA.
Among the winners are Global Power Synergy Pcl, Superblock Pcl, Bangchak Petroleum Pcl and Solartron Pcl.
But the German bank's aggressive and ambitious strategy to become a global power house ultimately backfired.
So China also needs to learn, and learn how to play this responsible global power role.
ICIJ reports the firm helped establish secret shell companies and offshore accounts for global power players.
The Soviet Union is no more, and its successor state, Russia, is a diminished global power.
Making China a respected global power will require the development of a more attractive political system.
When the tectonic plates of global power move, international security crises inevitably emerge from the gaps.
The most recent important collision pit Russia, a fading global power, against India, an upstart one.
China's rising global power was also on the agenda for the White House talks with Turnbull.
With 41 percent approval, Germany has replaced the United States as the top-rated global power.
However, Airbus didn't truly become a global power until the arrival of the single-aisle A320.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for China to become a global power in space exploration.
Without its values as a guide, the United States loses its unique attraction as a global power.
The United States is a major global power, and Saudi Arabia is a midsize country at best.
Emerging from the war burdened with debt, Britain found itself being gradually supplanted as a global power.
But most important, the Middle East offers a platform to reinforce Russia's status as a global power.
ICIJ reports that the firm helped establish secret shell companies and offshore accounts for global power players.
It has more than doubled the renewable share of its global power portfolio in the past decade.
"Offshore wind currently provides just 1103% of global power generation, but its potential is vast," Birol said.
He believes, and this is stated, that eventually China will replace the United States as global power.
Indonesia is the world's top exporter of thermal coal, still the main feedstock for global power generation.
In practice, the diplomacy practised by a global power has to engage with the world's messy realities.
It set the bedrock for a generation of economic growth, equipped American statecraft and ensured global power.
Some arise from the emergence of China as a global power; others are rooted within individual societies.
By any measure, Russia is a declining global power, with a shaky economy dependent on resource extraction.
The Olympic Games in August were meant to showcase a nation that had become a global power.
Coal's share of the global power mix in 1998 was 38%, and in 2017 it was...38%.
While the U.S. is consumed by its own political chaos, China is filling the global power vacuum.
Barack Obama believes America is an arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size.
They asked about his company's global power, its role in elections and its handling of user data.
It's changing the balance of global power, as surely as the airplane and the atom bomb did.
What's interesting is that despite this protest and revolt, the global power structure remains mostly in place.
Climate change also threatens the infrastructure that is the backbone of America's global power and national security.
The International Energy Agency predicts that renewable energy will comprise 40% of global power generation by 2040.
But two years later they were hedging, insisting they could scale Google to a global power by themselves.
The next president will have to prioritize those challenges, further postponing the country's dreams of projecting global power.
Barack Obama believes that America is a arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size.
It can claim that the balance of global power is shifting dangerously in favour of a new oligarchy.
China, like Russia and like some Sri Lankans, would prefer a weaker Washington, one with less global power.
Barack Obama views America as this arrogant global power that needed to be cut down to size. OK?
He really sees that China will become the preeminent global power in the world, replacing the United States.
To the West, China is a threat to Western hegemony and its grip on wealth and global power.
He sees the arrangements more as transactional business deals rather than the building blocks of US global power.
The report notes that few forecasters think CO22009 emissions in the global power sector will peak before 2026.
If elected, President Trump will be able to claim a mandate for ending decades of global power projection.
If elected, President Trump would be able to claim a mandate for ending decades of global power projection.
A little-known international arbitration system is gaining global power and allowing multinational corporations to sue entire countries.
Lyndon Johnson took over the presidency at the zenith of both the nation's prosperity and its global power.
In this case, Britain's industrial revolution was transforming the balance of global power in the early 19th century.
EVERYTHING UNDER THE HEAVENS: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power, by Howard W. French.
But the war, however brief, was in fact a defining moment in America's emergence as a global power.
Less obviously, he would also do substantial damage to American interests — the country's global power and its economy.
Germany was the top-rated global power, while China had edged ahead of the United States, at 31%.
He has reminded us, at a time of shifting global power, that the world is a dangerous place.
Cumulatively, this avoids any power dominating Eurasia and threatening the U.S. position at the apex of global power.
"You may talk about India being a world power, a global power, sending satellites into space," he said.
It's partly because the US is no longer the dominant global power that can just order people around.
This is Beijing's plan to dominate the technologies that will drive economic and global power in the decades ahead.
Domestic acquisitions are part of Tata's plan to nearly double its global power capacity to 20,000 megawatts by 2025.
And he believes, and this is stated, that eventually China will replace the United States as preeminent global power.
The Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said we risk becoming a regional rather than a global power.
As a global power, the United States has an enduring interest for stable, free and prosperous Asia-Pacific region.
We have a military designed for a global power and it has funding shortfalls that need to be fixed.
Consider both China's ambition and the prospect that it may be rising as the loneliest global power in history.
Syria is in a region critical to U.S. and international security, with implications for the balance of global power.
"Barack Obama believes America is an arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size," Rubio said.
So if it wants to be a global power for decades to come, it has to get India right.
And contrary to conventional wisdom, Russia's craving for global power status is not simply about nostalgia or psychological trauma.
Here's Marco Rubio on America's precipitous decline: Barack Obama does not believe that America is a great global power.
Wind energy accounted for 20 percent of new global power capacity in 2016, according to the International Energy Agency.
Beijing is pushing for a special relationship that recognizes its position as a global power, our bureau chief says.
As a global power with military bases around the world, this dependence is particularly acute for the United States.
"Barack Obama views America as this arrogant global power that needed to be cut down to size," he said.
Exxon sees a far different future ahead, with all renewables providing just 22 percent of global power generation by 2040.
MIKE POMPEO: I don't think there's anyone that rivals U.S. capacity to deliver whatever dimension of global power is needed.
China's leaders like to argue that the West is intent on slowing their country's rise as a respected global power.
Today in the real world, China faces unusual resistance to its bid for a front seat as a global power.
For world leaders, this is a complicated geopolitical conflict: a battle of ideologies, with local, regional and global power politics.
As the undergirding of American global power, America's alliances provide a historically-tested alternative to that unaffordable and unsustainable role.
China is not just a dominant producer of steel and aluminum but a global power-house across the metallic spectrum.
In the real world, that set of behavior correlates closely with colonialism, a practice still coursing throughout global power structures.
She said they plan to harness the global power of the Internet once more ahead of May's European parliament elections.
In his story, a million small incentives allow the accidental heirs of global power to get precisely what they want.
Warhol's coincided with the all-time peak of American global power, economic upward mobility, cultural self-infatuation, and idealistic impatience.
And we augment our global power by faithfully upholding in our own country the principles we seek to promote abroad.
Critics say this is a way for China to use money to leverage political gains and increase its global power.
One official said the United States was practically evacuating the Middle East, leaving Russia as the sole global power there.
If it does not pull back from these intrusions on Western democracies, the overreach will ultimately reduce China's global power.
Although Africa is home to 16 percent of the world's population, it consumes only 3.3 percent of global power production.
For years, Jones had railed against global power structures that he said were conspiring to control the levers of power.
In the 19th century, Europeans feared a so-called "yellow peril," brought about by "primitive" people with emerging global power.
Nonfiction EVERYTHING UNDER THE HEAVENS How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power By Howard W. French Illustrated.
"Modi is very keen on positioning India as a global power," said Arati Jerath, a political analyst in New Delhi.
One night, as Jack bikes home to his parents (Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal), there is a global power outage.
"Russia is a global power and our relations are getting closer," Netanyahu said Sunday, according to Russian press service RIA Novosti.
For Russia, the meeting was seen as a way to show the world that Russia can be a global power broker.
In addition, PTT is expanding its utility subsidiary Global Power Synergy (GPSC) which focuses on providing power to industries, Chansin said.
Raising the stakes further, America's status as a global power means the results of Election Day extends far beyond our borders.
General Electric shares were little changed after the industrial conglomerate said it was cutting 12,000 jobs at its global power business.
"We are witnessing a transformation of global power markets led by renewables," said IEA's executive director, Fatih Birol, in a statement.
For one, it allows Russia to continue asserting itself as a global power, even though its economy is smaller than Australia's.
General Electric increased about 0.8 percent after the industrial conglomerate said it was cutting 211,2500 jobs at its global power business.
IEA sees renewables — led by expanding solar and wind deployment — rising to meet 30% of global power demand in five years.
Others are xenophobic and feed off latent bigotry linked to China's rise as a global power, our Tokyo bureau chief writes.
In the latest Global Power City Index, Rome is not even ranked among the 44 most magnetic cities in the world.
Germany is now the top-rated global power in the world, with an approval rating of 41%, according to the survey.
General Electric rose about 0.9 percent after the industrial conglomerate said it was cutting 12,000 jobs at its global power business.
Although both men parlayed their inheritances into global power, they have stubbornly viewed themselves as outsiders at odds with the establishment.
Notice in particular his use of the term "global power structure" to describe those responsible for the country's economic and social woes.
Why it matters: Whoever wins, Brazil will remain bitterly divided and too weak to fulfill its dream of becoming a global power.
And they are on a very ambitious strategic course to replace the United States as the preeminent global power in the world.
It is the latter aim that worries the West most given the geostrategic link of a strong technological base and global power.
In the years prior to 2016, despite its guerilla campaigns in Ukraine, Russia simply wasn't being taken seriously as a global power.
Sochi was to be a showcase of Russia's resurgence as a global power, and the entire country was enlisted in the project.
Macron is attempting to revive France as a global power -- but cannot do so without its alignments with Washington, including counterterrorism cooperation.
World number one Djokovic said Russia was a global power in international sport but the scandal had been damaging for all involved.
But American global power has been eroding for some time, as I argue in the Foreign Policy Association's "Great Decisions 2018" volume.
Clinton of guiding a "global power structure" that has conspired against the working class — prompting a scolding on Twitter by Mr. Greenblatt.
But the two Democratic candidates are also unique in what they've said about how the US should behave as a global power.
The only point is to hold back China's development, which has become a global competitor for another global power - the United States.
AMS is interested in Osram's key technologies for self-driving cars and wants to create a global power in sensors and photonics.
Phillip Price and Whiterose, locked in a deepening clash of egos and global power-politics, threaten each other's plans for world domination.
Mr. Putin, who wants political control over neighboring countries and to be seen as a great global power, is testing President Trump.
Radhika JonesEditorial Director, Books EVERYTHING UNDER THE HEAVENS: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power, by Howard W. French.
The European Union is the only global power that could conceivably challenge the geopolitical confrontation that holds the Venezuela conflict in place.
As a global power, the United States is sometimes tempted to eschew diplomacy as it ultimately aims to defeat its perceived adversaries.
In part because of the Trump administration's all-in support for regime change, the crisis has become a dangerous global power struggle.
Today, by contrast, the retreat of liberal democracy is taking place as Russia plays the saboteur and China asserts its growing global power.
It will also exclude results of Amec's North Sea upstream business, North American nuclear operations and the disposed business of Global Power Group.
The International Energy Agency predicts renewables will account for 40 percent of global power generation by 2040, up from 24 percent in 2016.
Retreat may tempt many Americans, he wrote in his last book, "Strategic Vision—America and the Crisis of Global Power", published in 2012.
Renewable energy currently makes up 24 percent of global power generation and would need to increase to 80 percent by the target date.
He frequently wrote opinion articles for newspapers and published several books, including "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power" in 2012.
Russia is a global power that may not be the U.S.'s match in relative power, but certainly it is in relevant power.
Instead, it has focused on China's emergence as a global power, and the role of the president, Xi Jinping, in bringing this about.
They have stated that one of their goals is to replace or at least equal our status as the leading economic global power.
Height truly matters, and after integrating two players who are 6-foot-7 and 6-foot-10, Brazil emerged as a global power.
However, Airbus didn't truly become a global power until the arrival of the single-aisle A320, a competitor to Boeing's already storied 737.
Also, the fact that the global power structure is so different now means that the United States has far more problems to manage.
With China scrapping term limits, President Xi Jinping has new authority to pursue his drive to make the country a dominant global power.
Securing a resolution to Yemen's war is in America's national interest, not just as a global power, but also as a moral leader.
Zuckerberg believes peer-to-peer communications will be responsible for redistributing global power, making it possible for any individual to access and share information.
After all, the past 40 years have seen hundreds of millions of Chinese lift themselves out of poverty, and China become a global power.
The big picture: At 10% of global power supply, nuclear power is the second-largest electricity source (after hydropower) that emits no carbon dioxide.
His 1997 sculpture-turned-photograph, America Letrina, is a toilet reformed into the shape of the Americas to explore the arrangement of global power.
Obama's particular revulsion against a certain kind of global power politics is a product, Rhodes suggests, of his having been raised in Southeast Asia.
Because we have not invested in the technology to actually reduce emissions from the largest segment of global power production and energy: fossil fuels.
The point is that both the Russian political system and Russian global power, as they currently exist, are already more than a little precarious.
This past decade saw Facebook go from a scrappy startup to a global power, and Uber from a car-ride concept to a verb.
And the answer is quite obvious — the U.S. projects global power in a way that paves the way for corporations to do business abroad.
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind will increase their share of global power generation from 7 percent to roughly 25 percent by 2040.
For those still mourning France's lost glory as a global power, he has taken the rhetorical lead on climate change and the European Union.
Bevand estimated that data centers account for 1 percent of power demand around the world, while Bitcoin mining uses 0.15 percent of global power.
And central to his ambitions is a far-reaching drive to restore China to what he considers its rightful place as a global power.
It included 100,000 performers and was the capstone of a week of events meant to celebrate the country's rapid emergence as a global power.
Since Britain's decline from a global power in the years just after World War II, the country's foreign policy has rested on two pillars.
They include modernizing the economy, making India a leading global power, and redefining India's social contract in a more "pro-Hindu" fashion, he says.
It would give desperate people a reason to dislike us; a global power that had the means to do something but chose not to.
Edgar will join in late-January from fellow Swiss bank UBS , where he had served as co-head of global power, utilities and infrastructure.
However, to still be considered a global power and to maintain its own safety, it must retreat in a way that retains American deterrence.
And the movement brought youth activism to a new age — finding global power in social media and pushing public officials to acknowledge their accountability.
China is modernizing rapidly and re-emerging as a major global power, and its military is growing far stronger as it makes that journey.
That model of global power was outmoded once America demonstrated that alliances of governments could make something more powerful than any one self-proclaimed Empire.
While the West should not be quick to lift its sanctions, harnessing Russia's desire to be recognized as a global power is a sound strategy.
By the time China's ambitions of displacing the U.S. as the dominant global power were widely understood, Beijing's success had already begun to feel inevitable.
In 2016, global renewable electricity generation grew by an estimated 6 percent and represented around 24 percent of global power output, according to the IEA.
In today's terms, that is called "globalism" and these unpatriotic Jews are seen as driving nations to extinction in favor of their own global power.
"All this has led to the exceptional fragility of Europe, which if it can't think of itself as a global power, will disappear," he said.
America assumed it would emerge from the war as the dominant global power, and in its efforts to engineer that outcome created the Cold War.
That means renewables should account for at least 65 percent of global power generation by the middle of the century — up from 24 percent today.
"China is leveraging its economic power to increase defense spending as a foundation of the growing global power strategy," NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Gen.
The interest in America's founding fathers is tied up with a thirst to know how America became a democratic and global power, Mr. Liu said.
The way has been opened for Beijing to change the narrative and posture as a responsible international stakeholder, rather than an irresponsible global power-seeker.
China's nearly 231 billion people depend on a strained and struggling health care system that belies the country's rise as an increasingly wealthy global power.
Washington should show understanding for that in search for acceptable modus vivendi with a global power where other "solutions" could spell the end of humanity.
Yet there is another, far less publicized election occurring now that could mark a milestone for gender parity in the uppermost echelons of global power.
On top of that, Russia wants to receive more respect as a global power, which means more respect for its interests beyond its national border.
In the global power sector, investment dipped by 3503% to about $775 billion, but it remained the largest investment sector because of growing demand for electricity.
The sooner India can showcase these commitments, and wipe away the lingering frustrations, the further it will move toward achieving the global power status it seeks.
" The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said in its 2018 report that "renewable power accounted for 70 percent of net additions to global power generating capacity.
That is one of the key reasons he was elected in the first place, and that huge shift in global power is something that will last.
If a country doesn't follow through, it loses its credibility, therefore inviting other countries to push it around and forfeiting whatever global power it once had.
Amec said it was in negotiations with a number of interested buyers for its Global Power Group, which it put up for sale earlier this year.
The company has grown rapidly, generates a ton of cash, and has made a series of major acquisitions that has positioned it as a global power.
Secondly, Mr Putin wanted to change Russia's reputation from regional bully (a reputation cemented by his annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine) to global power.
" According to the report, "China has derived an incalculable near- and long-term military advantage from it [the hacking], thereby altering the calculus of global power.
" According to the report, China has "derived an incalculable near- and long-term military advantage from it [the hacking], thereby altering the calculus of global power.
In 2016, two thirds of new global power capacity came from solar, and the U.S. solar industry employs more people than oil, coal and gas combined.
Even as the global power mix becomes less carbon-intensive as reliance on coal decreases, emissions from fossil-fueled generation associated with cooling need will double.
Huawei's impressive rise over the past 15 years is a direct result of China's determination to gain global power and influence through economic and technological superiority.
Some analysts have argued that the trade war could have been avoided if Beijing had refrained from triumphalist rhetoric about China's rise as a global power.
Mr. Putin is expected to continue with little change in terms of trying to rebuild Russia as a global power while limiting economic reforms at home.
"The United States should learn how to behave like a responsible global power and stop acting as a 'school bully'," the official Xinhua news agency said.
The soccer competition gives President Vladimir Putin the chance to cast Russia in the role of a global power, aided by President Trump's strains with Europe.
Mr. Polet was replacing Domenico De Sole, a widely respected fashion executive who, with Tom Ford, had revived Gucci and turned it into a global power.
U.S. global power is "sputtering to a stall" as the Trump philosophy of retrenchment and unilateralism sows confusion among both allies and rivals, Eurasia Group says.
The world has become more dangerous because there is no global power to underwrite security and many subnational and nonstate actors can carry out destablizing actions.
There's nothing wrong with any of that; on the contrary, it demonstrates that China's leadership recognizes the responsibilities that come with China's global power and influence.
New renewables capacity in the global power sector was higher last year than coal, gas, oil and nuclear combined, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
However, Europe's a global power player, and its ambitions matter at a time when negotiators are meeting to cajole countries to do more on climate change.
A March report by the European Commission, which dubbed China "an economic competitor" and a "systemic rival," noted China's ambitions to become a leading global power.
Instinctively, he thought in terms of global power games; fortuitously, his time as president coincided with the end of the cold war, a heady and fascinating moment.
BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, released in June, showed that coal's share of the global power mix has remained at 38% for the last 20 years.
The rise of violent Islamism, Russia's return to authoritarianism, and China's growing assertiveness as a global power each posed a kind of threat to the liberal consensus.
But hanging over everything is the fundamental restructuring of global power as China grows more influential and seeks to redefine the world order to suit its interests.
Putin's even been accused of cultivating one of the candidates in the election -- Trump -- as an unwitting agent to further his quest to strangle US global power.
While the U.S. is consumed by understanding the Russian hacking into its presidential election, the other global power is claiming silent victory in a worldwide cryptocurrency competition.
Macron's push in Africa reflects his drive to project France as a global power which will likely continue especially as he faces domestic challenges to his legitimacy.
U.N. timetables routinely slip, but the presence of many of the global power elite at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos on Jan.
While some might see more hidden Jewish global power behind these levels of support, others would recognize that the Holocaust showed the limits of Jewish "hypnotic" power.
Research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie, for example, has said that solar and wind will meet "close to 20% of global power needs" by the year 2035.
China has begun to fill the global power vacuum created by Trump's abdication, while U.S. protectionism allows Xi Jinping to deflect justified criticisms of Beijing's own mercantilism.
Born seven years ago in the heady days of an economic boom, these Games were initially seen as a triumphal capstone for a newly ascendant global power.
Also by interfering in conflicts like those in Ukraine and Syria, Mr. Putin has sought to reassert Russia's role as a global power to be reckoned with.
The projection of global power has, over the years, strengthened militarism, justified interventionism, and reinforced corporate power—all the things the left is committed to fight against.
Increasing Russia's military presence in the region and beefing up its military installations could have supported Putin's mission to regain the status of a global power player.
A global power shift long preceded Trump; China's share of global output rose to about 15 percent from less than 4 percent in the past two decades.
If he chooses to stay even part of the week in New York, Trump Tower will become a de facto presidential residence and seat of global power.
But in this case, it is about upsetting a global power balance and weakening a government that Mr. Trump has argued, since he began campaigning, must go.
" Mr Miller is a research director in online technology at Demos, a British think-tank, and author of "The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab.
This rise was roughly equivalent to the total increase in global power generated, reflecting efforts both to promote clean power sources and to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
The IEA added that renewables were expected to meet over 60 percent of global power capacity growth in the next five years, exceeding 7,600 terawatt hours in 2021.
The Iranian hostage crisis, which began in 1979, came to dramatize America's waning global power and influence and to symbolize the failures and frustrations of the Carter administration.
It also suggests that domestic economic concerns, not exerting global power as the world's policeman, will be a primary driver of U.S. diplomatic relationships under the new administration.
Johan Galtung, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated sociologist who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, warned that US global power will collapse under the Donald Trump administration.
In fact, Chinese media outlets have repeatedly asserted that American complaints about the tech sector are really just efforts to slow the country's rise as a global power.
They gave us great skills -- the Romans, underfloor heating and aqueducts, the Greeks, philosophy, mathematics and demos (democracy) -- but both burnt out under the weight of global power.
The $4 billion deal to sell Glow to Global Power Synergy Company Pcl (GPSC), a unit of PTT Pcl's, was blocked by Thailand's energy regulator earlier in October.
Yet U.S. global power has also always depended on having certain features that were attractive to many people, and scientific internationalism might have been a part of that.
Team Trump has realized that time is running out to have any leverage on China in the effort to get it to act like a responsible global power.
Trump hammered Goldman and Blankfein during the presidential campaign, releasing a television ad that called Blankfein part of a "global power structure" that had robbed America's working class.
After a traffic accident mysteriously connected to a global power outage, Jack wakes up to discover that the Fab Four have been erased from the collective cultural memory.
She has described a bold new era in which Britain would look beyond the confines of Europe, striking trade deals and reclaiming its place as a global power.
The unusually high-profile intervention — which appears to be in line with Beijing's new foreign policy goal of becoming a "leading global power" — is on its face commendable.
They blame Western powers for causing a "century of humiliation" before the Communist takeover in 1949 and for instigating trouble and constraining China's growth as a global power.
When Russia was awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics, Mr. Putin called it the world's judgment on Russia, suggesting that only a global power could organize such an event.
China kicked off an enormous military parade in Beijing on Tuesday to commemorate 70 years of Communist Party rule and celebrate the country's emergence as a global power.
China, in short, has done substantially more to close the gap with the global power that it is chasing — the United States — than seemed likely a decade ago.
"The UK is a global power with truly global interest ... we must be prepared to compete for our interests and our values far, far from home," Williamson said.
Incendiary references to a "global power structure" that was robbing honest working people of their wealth were illustrated by pictures of George Soros, Janet Yellen and Lloyd Blankfein.
While the I.M.F. and other global institutions did not figure in the presidential debate, Mr. Trump repeatedly criticized a "global power structure" that fixed the economy against workers.
Maybe John Hay had that luxury as secretary of state under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, when the United States was just emerging as a global power.
This was an era that saw a largely poor and rural Italy transformed into a global power; ironically, the Italian glory that Mussolini promised came only after his demise.
Last year, cumulative solar PV capacity hit nearly 398 gigawatts and generated more than 460 terawatt hours, accounting for approximately two percent of global power output, the IEA adds.
As for which country, specifically, the Canadian government is worried about, the DRDC report only names one global power currently using hobby drones for surveillance in the battlefield: Russia.
Premier Li Keqiang, for example, has tended to take more conciliatory positions in trade disputes than colleagues in the leadership who favor asserting China's clout as a global power.
And the growing rivalry is exacerbated by leaders — Trump and Xi Jinping — who use nationalism and vows to make their countries great again to flex personal and global power.
China's official news agency, Xinhua, called this one of the biggest return flows of talent in any country's history: the "magnetic effect" of China's rise as a global power.
"Renewable energies will be the mainstay of global power supply in the future," said Karsten Lemmer, an executive board member of the German Aerospace Center, said in the statement. 
But it is actually of a piece with Japan's post-war tension between asserting itself as a global power and apologizing for its rapacious militarism in World War II.
The most recent and obvious historical example of this is when the British Empire was supplanted by the United States as the preëminent global power, in the nineteen-forties.
General Electric announced on Thursday it was axing 12,000 jobs at its global power business as the struggling industrial conglomerate responds to dwindling demand for fossil fuel power plants.
Ultimately, the debate over self-censorship is a proxy for the larger and more important debate over how to react to the rise of China as a global power.
The Russian leader knows that America's global power rests not only on our military and economic might but also on our unrivaled network of alliances from Europe to Asia.
Capek, who was Czech, wrote the book in the 1930s, so you might reasonably conclude — watching the newts sweep to global power — that he had fascism on his mind.
Actually, global power politics took place under the noses of an evidently clueless press corps and major agreements were discussed that could change the balance of power in Asia.
A steady flow of foreign people of different skill levels will be essential for the United States to maintain its status as a global power economically, geopolitically, and militarily.
The US, Russia, and China remain the planet&aposs most powerful countries even as other countries have seen their positions fall, according to this year&aposs global power rankings.
But he also made clear that Russia demanded to be treated as a global power, not the "regional power" that Mr. Obama described it as in 2014, infuriating Moscow.
NBA NEW YORK — David Stern, who spent 30 years as the NBA's longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global power, has died on New Year's Day.
China's global power may eclipse that of the U.S. if government leaders prioritize "twentieth-century" issues like manufacturing and the military, according to global risk consultancy firm Eurasia Group.
His closing campaign ad, which lamented a "global power structure" and a "corrupt machine," flashed an image of Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs.
My three years as the U.S. ambassador to China confirmed my sense that the Chinese are very clear on their long-range aspirations to be a preeminent global power.
He says Mr. Obama really doesn't appreciate America and views it as "an arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size," while blatantly disregarding the Constitution. Mrs.
REUTERS/Edgar Su General Electric announced it was axing 12,000 jobs at its global power business as the struggling industrial conglomerate responds to dwindling demand for fossil fuel power plants.
VX last year, the U.S. company is under greater pressure to strike a deal, with three of the six global power houses in agrochemicals and seeds now out of play.
According to the survey, Germany is now the world's top-rated global power with a 41% approval rating after the U.S. plunged from 513% in 2016 to 30% in 2017.
The coal to natural gas switch in the Northeast is a microcosm of a dynamic taking place worldwide, as natural gas steals an increasing share of the global power mix.
All this has led to the exceptional fragility of Europe which, if it can't think of itself as a global power, will disappear, because it will take a hard knock.
Nor is it unexpected that China thinks it can supplant America in some ways (though it's unlikely that China will be a truly global power for many decades to come).
" He said the bilateral relationship between Delhi and Beijing was an important element in the "balance of global power," and added both countries have "many similar ideas in international affairs.
"The world is watching to see if China is really the global power it professes itself to be, and the responsible power that it professes itself to be," Kirby said.
"The world is watching to see if China is really the global power it professes itself to be and the responsible power that it professes itself to be," he said.
Trump is using the trade war as a means through which to force through economic reforms that, he thinks, will allow the United States to remain the preeminent global power.
Why it matters: Expect these cases to only increase as China's global power and influence increases — and as the Communist Party expands its efforts to influence the overseas Chinese diaspora.
This is Mr. Xi's great weakness: If he crushes the soul of Hong Kong, he will lose the Hong Kong he needs to make China the global power he envisions.
North Korea has sought a one-on-one meeting with a sitting American president for years, believing it would legitimate it as a global power, but previous administrations have refused.
European lawmakers barraged Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday with a litany of questions about his company's global power, its role in elections and its misuse of user data.
It also allowed France to repress the humiliation of surrender and, after the war, to embark on ill-timed military exploits to restore its self-confidence as a global power.
Trump's closing campaign ad flashed an image of Lloyd Blankfein, then the CEO of Goldman Sachs, as the candidate's narration condemned the "global power structure" for robbing America's working class.
The United States, which had been the top-rated global power in 2016, fell 18 percentage points during Trump's first year in office and surrendered the No.1 spot to Germany.
By letting veterans like Putin and Erdogan decide what happens next in Syria, he sent a message that the US is no longer the key global power in the Middle East.
Mr Modi's second term gives him another chance to hasten development and turn India into a genuine global power—goals that appeal to both his enterprising supporters and his religious ones.
The book sets out a whopping 15 "synchronizing and mutually reinforcing contradictions" afflicting the US, which he says will lead to US global power ending by 2020—within just four years.
Paul Corthorn, in " Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain " (Oxford), charts his subject's fascinating trajectory from a supporter of empire to a skeptic of Britain as a global power.
But the real story underlying this interest is that China has long understood the relationship between commercial infrastructure projects and global power, and it has weaponized many of its commercial relationships.
Donald J. Trump on Thursday accused Hillary Clinton of guiding a "global power structure" that has rigged the economy against the working class, language that some suggested echoed anti-Semitic themes.
Darroch falls into the "Remainer" camp — those who feel Britain's place is more aligned with Europe than an outward-looking global power unconstrained to forge individual relationships of its own choosing.
The crisis in Idlib pushed Russia, a nuclear armed global power, and Turkey, a member of NATO, toward direct military confrontation, a prospect that both countries have been eager to avoid.
He notes the unusualness of intense November heat, or of battering rainstorms: observations that ring eerily familiar even for readers who are neither Amish farmers nor survivors of global power outages.
Although Trump is unlikely to lose many votes over such subtle shifts of global power, it will still be grist to the mill for Democrats grinding down narrow margins next fall.
OTTAWA — Canada's international image soared with the election of Justin Trudeau in 210, the young prime minister's glowing brand helping Ottawa punch above its mid-sized weight in global power circles.
It remains to be seen whether western nations — in particular the U.S., which is used to making the rules in international relations — would get used to that shift in global power.
In order to be a global power — that is, to wield military influence in places around the world — you need to have the military hardware necessary to deploy in different regions.
Uber had been on track to become a global power, but setbacks around the world and growing U.S. competition from Lyft have called into question whether Uber's ambitions had grown too big.
Wind, solar and other renewables capacity totaling 259.8 gigawatts (GW) was added to global power generation capacity last year, 8 percent more than in 2015, a Frankfurt School of Finance report said.
"I just think at a higher level, [Disney's studio segment] really demonstrates the consistency and the global power of the Disney film studio," DiClemente told CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report " on Tuesday.
Olympic politics are inseparable from national and global politics, and President Vladimir Putin, a cobalt-eyed sort, has embraced sporting dominance as a symbol of Russia's re-emergence as a global power.
Despite the political repression, life in China in the years after Tiananmen was chiefly characterised by the roiling economic activity that marked the country's scramble to turn itself into a global power.
What follows is an explanation of why this body of water is considered such a big deal, and why it may be a harbinger of global power politics in the decades ahead.
With his assault on the legitimacy of the presidential election, Donald J. Trump threatens to touch off a humiliating spectacle unseen in the United States since the country became a global power.
In some respects, Mr. Xi's move to extend his rule in tandem with his drive to make China a dominant global power should not have surprised the United States, Chinese analysts said.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress must take steps to rescue an American institution that with proper support and presidential leadership, could help make America a great and respected global power once again.
President Emmanuel Macron of France now argues that Europe should position itself as a third global power between the United States and China, rather than what it has been — an American ally.
Some non-Chinese companies are also tweaking their businesses to win more orders related to Beijing's plan, and G.E. has rearranged its marketing staff for global power equipment to give them priority.
Talks were taking place to find a solution, but the alliance would prevail, recognizing the importance of the United States as a global power, said Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine ambassador to Washington.
"Renewables have already overtaken coal as a global power source, electric vehicles are the growth segment of the auto industry and jobs are being created very rapidly in clean energy," she said.
But this development comes as China increasingly seeks to exert pressure on multinational corporations as the country seeks to assert global power and recapture aggressive growth to turn around its flagging economy.
Most plays centered on diplomacy and global power dynamics are men's stories ("Oslo" being a recent, happy exception), and it's terrific to see women given the same privileges and sometimes ugly ambitions.
Xi has vowed to fend off "major risks" in the world's second-largest economy over the next three years as he seeks to cement the country's position as a leading global power.
The late 19th century saw an emerging, militaristic great power, with a fast-growing navy, eager to exploit a speck of land in the ocean even if that provoked an established global power.
China is not in the G7 club but its rise as a global power has put it at the heart of some discussions at the advanced nations' summit in Ise-Shima, central Japan.
Russia wants the new program to be a catalyst for local producers, including subsidiaries of foreign firms, to create domestic versions of the global power sector equipment, cutting Moscow's reliance on Western suppliers.
Today, the man went straight to the seat of global power—the White House—and delivered an important message: the Chicago Cubs have sticks, and that's something Kershaw and the Dodgers should fear.
Driving the news: Shell unveiled a joint venture with EDF Renewables North America, an arm of France-based global power giant EDF Group, to develop a wind energy lease off New Jersey's coast.
Trump hammered Goldman and its Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein during the presidential campaign, releasing a television ad that called Blankfein part of a "global power structure" that had robbed America's working class.
A better understanding of space weather is key to helping us prepare for the next massive geomagnetic storm—a once-in-a-century event that could quite literally cause a global power surge.
Amata B. Grimm and Global Power have submitted a bid for the Medco Power stake and are in exclusive talks with Indonesia's Saratoga Group, Amata B. Grimm President Preeyanart Soontornwata said by telephone.
The International Energy Agency forecasts solar's share of global power generation capacity will grow from 4 percent in 2015 to 13 percent in 2040 if planned policies to battle climate change are implemented.
President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader in decades, is sending Washington a strong message, which is that China has changed and old assumptions about global power and American dominance don't hold anymore.
The bottom line: The report underscores both the progress toward a lower-carbon global power mix and the immense challenge of corralling carbon emissions, which grew last year after a 3-year plateau.
The party's move comes as Mr. Xi has proclaimed an era of China's greatness, when the country, he says, will take what he sees as its rightful place as a top global power.
Story at a glance Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the global power sector saw its biggest drop in nearly 853 years as power generated from coal plants fell, according to a new study.
It's expensive to play, and global power grabs untethered to a broader vision of global order tend to falter, as resources and lives expended abroad fail to bring peace and progress at home.
For the first time since the United States became a global power, it must now confront an adversary that presents not merely a political or military threat but also an existential economic one.
By remaining in the accord, the U.S. has an opportunity to combat the dangerous impacts of climate change while developing new job markets and maintaining its credibility and role as a global power.
Now, as the country has become a global power once again, Communist Party leaders have revived the legend of Zheng He to show China's peaceful intentions and its historical connections to the region.
By pursuing sudden, all-or-nothing regime change against Nicolás Maduro and in favor of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, the United States has turned a regional crisis into a global power struggle.
They inspire awe with their aesthetics, engineering and sheer scale, but many dams – from China's Three Gorges to Brazil and Paraguay's Itaipu – are also playing crucial roles when it comes to global power generation.
Indirect funding does indeed reflect a much greater U.S. share, simply because we are and will always remain a global power projecting our military strength in a way the Europeans can't and never will.
It's testimony to the fact that the United States remains the true global power that people and the media in most countries will follow the race closer than they follow even some local stories.
Or was it all wrapped up into one overall message that appealed not so much to people's economic circumstances but instead to their anxiety over their place in the American and global power structure?
South Korea had just held its first democratic election in 19883, and the Olympics were a way to demonstrate to the international community its newfound identity as a modern economy and emerging global power.
"Thermal coal demand in the global power industry increased by 3.4 percent year-over-year in 2017 and is forecast to increase by a further 2.4 percent year-over-year in 2018," said Whitehaven.
As even Nixon recognized, since its emergence as a global power in the late 19th century, America has relied on a highly trained corps of diplomats, worldly financiers and academics to steer it straight.
READ: Trump is finally getting his trade war Others doubted that Trump's aggressive strategy would pay off against Beijing, a rising global power sensitive not to be seen as backing down to American pressure.
ZURICH, Dec 7 (Reuters) - General Electric Co announced on Thursday it was axing 12,000 jobs at its global power business as the struggling industrial conglomerate responds to dwindling demand for fossil fuel power plants.
As long as he has an ally in Washington as reactionary and aggressively ignorant as Trump, Bolsonaro will have the latitude to pretend his administration has influence at the highest echelons of global power.
The national security strategy document emphasizes a global power struggle, both economic and military, that is reminiscent of Cold War-era attitudes, when power and prosperity were seen as zero-sum games between nations.
She's an outsider, part of one of the many small communities of people who didn't want to assimilate with the COG, the government that consolidated global power during a war with the monstrous Locust.
We're also about the future: a future in which we suddenly hold, in our fingers we use as calculators, above our wrist watches we use to tell time, an inordinate amount of global power.
Russia may be the biggest beneficiary of an American departure, which would leave it as the major global power in Syria and restore its Soviet-era role as a player in the Middle East.
But Mr. Trump's policies and China's growing global power have emboldened Beijing to be more direct in those messages and to highlight what Chinese officials say are the deleterious effects of American foreign policy.
Casting doubt on US alliances For 70 years, US global power and the relative peace and security of the order that America built in the aftermath of World War II have been anchored on alliances.
Again, if policies are shifted to "meet global sustainable energy goals" capacity could exceed 170 GW. "Offshore wind currently provides just 2603% of global power generation, but its potential is vast," the IEA's Birol said.
Today, as the U.S.-led, post-World War II system of global power unravels, next-generation influence will hinge on mastery of AI-infused technology that, while perhaps having innocent origins, has often been weaponized.
" On Donald Trump election plays: "Buy infrastructure stocks ... [And] the bank stocks, particularly the trust banks, where they have less regulation, State Street, Northern Trust and Bank of New York, they become global power houses.
In the movie, the world's first mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) awakes in 1980s Cairo after hibernation in ancient Egypt and embarks on a mission for global power with his new recruits, including Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
Getting closer to coal: IEA predicts that renewables' share of global power generation will be 30% in 2022, up from 24 percent last year, with hydropower remaining the largest total source over the forecast period.
In a televised speech to mark the establishment of Kenya as a republic in 1964, Kenyatta said the ICC had become a "tool of global power politics" and not an institution to dispense international justice.
When it intervened in Syria last year, Russia sought to provide TV spectacles for the masses at home, re-establish itself as a global power and force the West into taking account of Russian interests.
"Renewables have already overtaken coal as a global power source, electric vehicles are the growth segment of the auto industry and jobs are being created in clean energy sectors faster than any other," she said.
"The Russians, above all, are interested in demonstrating that they are still a major global power, and that Russia's opinion matters, including in the context of North Korea," Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation says.
"By the end of 2019, I suspect the biggest headlines on U.S.-China will be more focused on a changing global power balance than a direct trade war," he tells Axios in an email exchange.
"Skaluba also pointed to a recent speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting of the Arctic Council, in which Pompeo said the Arctic had "become an arena of global power and competition.
The North Koreans, though, have long patterned their strategy on what they see as China's path: international pariah in the 1950s, rogue nuclear state in the 1960s, and, finally, accepted global power in the 1970s.
India's political leadership has made clear that it views nukes as political weapons — a way to project global power and perhaps win a seat on the United Nations Security Council — not as war-fighting weapons.
The intense reactions to Mr. Liu's legal troubles reflect the public's fascination with China's self-made tech tycoons, who have become symbols of the country's rise as a global power and its upward social mobility.
Meanwhile, progressive Europe, which turned its back on imperialism and redefined itself as a project for peace, risks becoming a continent of helpless countries, a collection of bread crumbs on the table of global power.
The 2016 Games were originally planned to showcase Brazil's ascent as a global power, but will play out instead against a backdrop of recession, political turmoil and concern about an outbreak of the Zika virus.
It has blended with another meaning, used as a codeword that bridges from Israel to the wider Jewish world, hinting at the age-old, antisemitic notion of a shadowy, global power, operating behind the scenes.
The two share some common objectives — getting the West to recognize Russia as a global power, for example — but this strategy involves leveraging for a compromise rather than intimidating the West into accepting Russian demands.
And it's a disagreement about what kind of global power America is supposed to be: a power that guides through consensus and coalition building, versus a power that leads unilaterally and, if necessary, dominates through strength.
The one that spooked me (and Dale, who calls it "the most striking — and worrying — chart in the whole of this Statistical Review") is this one: In 1998, coal represented 38 percent of global power generation.
Iceland swears in new PM amid Panama Papers fallout Global repercussions are still reverberating from the leaked documents that allege that the law firm helped establish secret shell companies and offshore accounts for global power players.
Investment bankers making the switch include Goldman Sachs' co-head of Italy Francesco Pascuzzi, who also co-heads the global power and infrastructure team, and is looking to move early next year, the sources told Reuters.
Putin, the global power player and master of the body language of the mano-a-mano photo op, adopted his usual, inscrutable expression, but nevertheless said he was "delighted" to meet Trump, at last in person.
" University of Wisconsin historian Alfred McCoy declared to The Intercept that Trump has been demolishing "pillars of U.S. global power.... He's weakened the NATO alliance; he's weakened our alliances with Asian allies along the Pacific littoral.
The Olympics were meant to shine a spotlight on the nation as it emerged as a global power, but instead coincided with Brazil's worst recession on record and public anger at the massive Car Wash scandal.
It was notable how summit host French President Emmanuel Macron played a stabilizing and convening role at the weekend, inserting his nation into the spot of the mature global power once reserved for the United States.
The impact of this shift could be significant: research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie has previously said that "close to 20% of global power needs will be met by solar or wind" by the year 2035.
Such an appointment would indicate that women as well as men can take up the mantle of leadership, and that it is not unrealistic for young girls to aspire towards the highest rungs of global power.
The normal tools for judging a presidency -- legislation passed, America's relative global power, the health of the economy, the President's approval rating and the security and prosperity of the populace -- can be used to assess Trump.
"We're going to get an outcome which forces China to behave in a way that, if you want to be a power, a global power -- transparency, rule of law, you don't steal intellectual property," Pompeo said.
Every time Trump suggests these countries can't count on the US anymore — through actions like pulling out of Paris and insulting NATO allies in his foreign trip — he threatens the very foundations of America's global power.
LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving global power and utility companies fell to their lowest quarterly level since 2012 in the first three months of 2019, Ernst & Young (EY) said on Thursday.
Bush dedicated his career to maintaining an international order that kept the U.S. in a preeminent position of global power, and that prevented the USSR and Russia from extending its power beyond its contiguous sphere of influence.
Hogan, 60, joined Etihad Airways in 2006 and has presided over the airline's incredible growth from an upstart regional player with 22 aircraft to a global power with more than 120 aircraft and another 204 on order.
Global power does not exist in a vacuum — a retreat by America from its agenda on the world stage would be filled by some most unsavory state actors, aided and abetted by the likes of Julian Assange.
In March, it announced plans to sell its Global Power Group, unit involved in the design, supply and erection of circulating fluidised bed (CFB) boilers, a wide range of steam generators and air pollution control equipment unit.
" Versteeg has lectured frequently in Africa, particularly to young African leaders who have suggested that "economic growth, efficiency, asserting oneself in the world, being a global power, being an economic power are all more important than democracy.
The current President is especially sensitive to the cost of America's security umbrella for its allies, in Asia as well as Europe, and largely sees alliances that underpin US global power in transactional rather than geopolitical terms.
With a steadily growing economy and expanding social programs that lifted millions out of poverty, the South American nation was seen by many as an emerging global power and a shining example of good governance and inclusivity.
U.S. presidents' meetings with their Chinese counterparts are usually more tightly scripted than with other foreign leaders, something Chinese officials insist on to make sure they are treated with the decorum they believe befits a global power.
We'll be watching to see how the NATO allies handle two crucial internal debates — how to manage NATO's problem child (Turkey) and how to handle a global power that poses a growing threat to the alliance (China).
LONDON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday he saw Russia emerging as a global power as the European Union collapses, in much the same way as the EU flourished when the Soviet Union started falling.
In a scathing nationalistic speech in Brussels in December, Mr. Pompeo criticized institutions the United States helped create to maintain its global power — the United Nations, European Union, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization.
Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday he thinks it's "inappropriate" for the president to communicate with the leader of another global power without keeping "careful records" of it, noting what President Trump did "should not be repeated," CNN reports.
Britain's membership of the EU bolstered its influence in America just as its close relations with America increased its clout in the EU. The EU magnified Britain's global power, bringing with it trade deals with 53 other countries.
China has gone to great lengths to try to make the Sept 4-5 G20 summit a success, hoping to cement its standing as a global power, but a range of thorny diplomatic topics could overshadow the agenda.
But unlike other genres, fashwave arrives at a time when fascism itself is surging to global power for the first time since the 30s, and both its music and visuals can seem like a premonition of the future.
The gathering seeks to add substance to the group that grew out of an acronym devised by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill back in 2003 that projected a long-term boom and global power shift in their favor.
Instead of finding voters nervous about their family's finances, it uncovered deep concern related to America's declining global power and the projected demographic changes that will put people of color and ethnic minorities in the majority by 2045.
In their view, the digital currency is the solution to central banking's many problems, including a lack of transparency, a close relationship with the global power elite, and the central banks' ability to conjure money from thin air.
Suddenly, though, Bannon isn't merely guiding a dark horse campaign; he has arrived at the doorstep of global power, inviting an intense backlash against reporters and politicians who ignore his racist roots, or shrug them off with euphemisms.
JAKARTA/BANGKOK, June 1 (Reuters) - Thailand's Amata B. Grimm Power Group is partnering with Global Power Synergy PCL to bid for more than 51 percent of Indonesia's Medco Power, Amata B. Grimm Power's president told Reuters on Wednesday.
Russia and China have both advanced their military capabilities to act as a global power… Others are now pursuing advanced technology, including military technologies that were once the exclusive province of great powers – this trend will only continue.
"(China) is the perfect instrument to project Russia as a resurgent global power, so essentially the Russia narrative is that China, Russia and to a lesser extent India, are part of this new dynamic world order," he said.
" With America turning its back, China rising, and authoritarian leaders on the EU's doorstep, the result is "the exceptional fragility of Europe", Mr Macron concludes, "which, if it can't think of itself as a global power, will disappear.
The country can ill-afford this situation, especially at a time when adversary nation-states are ramping up their investments in science and technology, with an eye toward gaining strategic advantage and shifting the balance of global power.
PTT has six flagship companies including oil and gas explorer PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, electricity producer Global Power Synergy Pcl and three refineries and petrochemical companies under PTT Global Chemical Pcl, Thai Oil Pcl and IRPC Pcl .
The party has also seized on the trade dispute as new evidence that the United States is intent on undermining China's rise as a global power, a central narrative used to justify the party's, and Mr. Xi's, rule.
PTT has six flagship companies including oil and gas explorer PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, electricity producer Global Power Synergy Pcl and three refineries and petrochemical companies under PTT Global Chemical Pcl, Thai Oil Pcl and IRPC Pcl .
In a statement on Wednesday, PTT unit Global Power Synergy Pcl (GPSC) said it will first pay 97.56 billion baht ($2.98 billion) for Engie's 69 percent stake in Glow, before launching a tender offer for the remaining shares.
The intense reactions to Mr. Liu's legal troubles reflect the public's fascination with China's self-made tech tycoons, who have become symbols of the country's rise as a global power and its upward social mobility in recent decades.
Since Brexit and the election of President Trump, elite politicians, executives and scholars who meet here every year have wrung their hands over the wave of shocks to a global power system whose permanence most had taken for granted.
Connection to Panama Papers In April 2016, Mossack Fonseca was connected to a huge leak of documents that seemed to reveal a large collusion of global power players who were set up with secret offshore companies to hide money.
DAVOS, Switzerland — The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago was no less than "reshaping the world" — and the gathering of global power players still lends itself to high-minded ideals.
WATCH: Trade deal or no deal, the U.S. and China are still fighting for global power "We focus our analysis on the credit implications of China's lending to frontier and emerging markets, " Moody's Diron said in an email Tuesday.
Update April 9th, 4:17PM ET: Clarified that Apple, like Google, is not actually 100 percent powered by clean energy, but it uses the term to signal that it buys enough green energy to offset its global power consumption.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global Power Synergy Company Pcl (GPSC), the power generating unit of state-owned PTT Pcl said on Friday that it completed the acquisition of a portion of Glow Energy, in one of Southeast Asia's largest energy deals.
Pyongyang's claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday has put China, one of its few remaining allies, in a quandary as Beijing seeks to solidify its position as a global power without compromising the region's power balance.
PTT, an oil and gas supplier in which the government owns a 51 percent stake, said in June it had agreed to buy 69 percent of Glow from Engie via its power unit, Global Power Synergy Company Pcl (GPSC.BK).
Arguing that America under Trump is "retreating from the front," Osnos suggested that the Chinese government was stepping up its global commitments to capitalize on the uncertainty created by Trump and to accelerate China's rise as a global power.
"All this has led to the exceptional fragility of Europe which, if it can't think of itself as a global power, will disappear, because it will take a hard knock," Macron, who has been in power since 2017 said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Global power and utility executives are positive about the prospects for mergers and acquisitions in the year ahead, despite deals falling to their lowest level since 9.1 in the first quarter, Ernst & Young (EY) said on Thursday.
" With this "dominant consideration" in mind, American leaders would work to "prevent any hostile power from dominating [any] region"—including, for instance, Western Europe and Southwest Asia—"whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.
Where Jefferson wanted to construct the Constitution narrowly and favored a decentralized country with a weak federal government, Hamilton and his allies favored a broad interpretation, with a powerful, centralized state that promoted economic development and exercised global power.
While basic income projects have been successfully piloted in countries ranging from Finland to Kenya, Ontario's program is one of the first in recent history to target a country of the size, economic diversity, and global power of Canada.
This news has already shaken regulators in Europe and lit up cryptocurrency subreddits, and will likely be the subject of months of commentary from financial analysts and the various watchdogs currently thinking about the scale of Facebook's global power.
But that astrological sense of influence as a malign, opaque and distant force — something that tempts us against our characters or better wisdom — still lingers in the way people talk about the dark orbits of global power and wealth.
The Fourth of July is always an excellent opportunity to consider how, by challenging a global power in a distant land that was neglecting natural law and fundamental values, the Declaration of Independence changed the course of human history.
They both find the information, but more importantly they verify it," said Centre for the Analysis of Social Media research director Carl Miller, who profiled Higgins in his book, "The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab.
If you care about foreign policy and the shifting nature of global power, this is a rare opportunity to hear about it straight from the man whose been reporting on it for three decades at The New York Times.
Richardson said the Navy was reviewing an assessment completed in 2012 and updated in 2014, before Russia's reemergence as a "global power competitor," and the start of the U.S.-led campaign to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
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The British establishment has always been ambivalent about the European project, partly because it was on the winning side in the second world war and partly because it has historically seen Britain as a global power, not a continental one.
The move is the culmination of years of effort on Xi's part to consolidate power in his own hands, signaling a return to strongman rule aimed at restoring China to what he sees as its rightful place as a global power.
Getting China more invested in solving global problems such as the Ebola crisis and climate change was a major component of our strategy for ensuring that a rising global power would play a more responsible role on the world stage.
Fearing that the departure of its second-biggest economy and major global power could prompt the unraveling of the bloc, many leaders argue that only forward motion can revive popular support for the EU by generating economic and security benefits.
Because breaking up US technology giants without a sufficient analysis of both the national and international implications of this step could deal a body blow to American prosperity and global power in the 21st century, extreme caution is in order.
The first Olympics to be held in South America were originally planned to showcase Brazil's ascent as a global power, but will play out instead against a backdrop of recession, political turmoil and concern about an outbreak of the Zika virus.
It seems that they've been together for as long as the Earth has been spinning, but it was just nine years ago today that Beyoncé and Jay-Z officially sealed their status as a global power couple (and your relationship goals).
Mr Putin wanted to force the West to recognise that, for all that it may deplore Russia's actions in Ukraine and seek to isolate it with sanctions, Russia is a global power—the player on the other side of the board.
The president has endorsed his predecessors' view that China faces a "period of strategic opportunity" up to 2020, meaning it can take advantage of a mostly benign security environment to achieve its aim of strengthening its global power without causing conflict.
"We will use all our resources to prevent our brothers in Syria and Iraq from being crushed under the wheels of global power games, and to keep us from suffering a similar fate," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.
At stake is its reputation as a dominant force in world athletics and President Vladimir Putin's image of Russia as a global power, at a time when the Kremlin is locked in geopolitical tussles with the West over Ukraine and Syria.
Kramer's strongest argument is that writing a history of U.S. empire as a history of territory leaves out a great deal, since "most expressions of American global power in the twentieth century" do not involve the conquest of new lands.
" In one of the flights of fancy to which Davutoğlu was prone, he declared: "On the historic march of our sacred nation the AK party signals the birth of a global power and the mission for a new world order.
From the day he accepted Trump's offer to lead the Pentagon, Mattis knew his views didn't align entirely with those of the president-elect, particularly on what Mattis considers a central pillar of American global power and influence: respect for allies.
"It is important for Putin to drive home the message, especially to the U.S., that Russia is a global power," said Dmitri Trenin, the director of the Moscow Carnegie Center, a research group, and an expert on Russian foreign policy.
This left Russia's political elite to start cheering the outcome of the meeting before it even ended and rejoice that Mr. Trump, by just meeting Mr. Putin as an equal, had recognized Russia as a global power, not a regional one.
What makes America unique as a global power is that we have allies who share our interests and values — and amplify our power at a low cost to us — while Russia and China have only client states, like Syria, and customers.
His macho political persona relies on the conceit that he never gets things wrong, and that he can, with the help of hackers, special forces or brutal allies, outmaneuver the West and consequently regain Russia's status as a global power.
"Now with China being the second largest economy in the world and a global power, the most pressing issue to be solved has become 'the people's ever-increasing demand for a better life' and 'unbalanced and inadequate development'," Chen said.
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future, turning its back on post-World War Two attempts to unite the once warring nations of Europe into a global power.
Howard W. French's "Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power" does so through a deep historical and cultural study of the meaning of China's rise from the point of view of the Chinese themselves.
In a speech outlining his national security strategy on Monday, Trump cast Beijing as a competitor and a "revisionist" force intent on reshaping the post-World War II global power structure in order to benefit its economic and political interests.
Some analysts raised the prospect that the administration's worldview of competing global power centers may make it inclined to delay punitive action by using waivers or delaying sanctions, rather than forcing us-or-them choices on countries like India or Turkey.
It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
"The United States is the only state that has for decades made the necessary investment that allows it to produce and successfully use the full range of systems and associated infrastructure needed for significant global power projection," Brooks and Wohlforth write.
"Specifically, the U.S. and global power generation sector could stress the system to a breaking point, so much so that the structural rise in commodity prices to meet basic needs could lead to an economic downturn," analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. said.
By sending in bombers and special forces to back Bashar al-Assad, the Kremlin sought to reestablish Russia's status as a global power and demonstrate that no one else could take major steps in the Middle East without taking Russian interests into account.
In 2015, it launched the Supplier Clean Energy Program, committing 23 of Apple's manufacturing partners to use entirely clean energy, and earlier this year, the company claimed that it purchases enough green energy to offset the global power consumption at its facilities worldwide.
" The essayist Pankaj Mishra struck a similar though less forgiving note in Bloomberg, branding Brexit "little more than another instance of dead-end thinking by some empire fetishists, powered by the same delusion of a small island regaining its global power and influence.
Putin, whose political project is rooted in a desire to restore Moscow's lost influence, respect and role as an integral player in global power politics, got to sit down, side-by-side, with an American leader for the first time in two years.
In one example, following a riot in the western region of Xinjiang in 2013, the Internet propaganda office reported posting hundreds of comments about local economic development and the China Dream, one of Mr. Xi's propaganda initiatives emphasizing China's rising global power.
China is due to announce its defense budget for this year this weekend, and its navy is likely to secure significant new funding as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its projection of global power.
And even with three of Victoria's grandchildren at the table of global power — the Russian czarina, the British king and the German kaiser — they could not prevent the senseless slaughter of World War I. Royal slights may have actually contributed to its outbreak.
LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future, turning its back on post-World War Two attempts to unite the once warring nations of Europe into a global power.
The first-time novelist David Williams describes Pennsylvania "plain folk" grappling with catastrophe — the destruction of the global power grid in the wake of a solar storm — even as they continue on with more tranquil activities like gathering eggs and making jerky.
We must ask whether our defense and national security establishments are in a position — financial and technical — to succeed in these critical technologies that could either solidify our continued position as the leading global power or reduce us to a clearly subordinate role.
Many of the achievements of the past century that helped make the United States an envied global power, including gains in life expectancy, lowered air pollution and increased farm productivity are the result of the kinds of government research now under pressure.
In its report, the IEA describes how energy markets should look by 2040 to keep the world on track for a 2-degree climate outcome: A third of global power generation will come from wind and solar, up from 4 percent today.
LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The value of global power and utilities transactions hit an eight-year high of $723 billion last year, as energy firms sought new growth opportunities amid low energy prices, a report by consultancy firm Ernst & Young said on Tuesday.
It also underscores how difficult it is for a global power and permanent U.N. Security Council member like France to stand up against the United States and its closest Arab-world ally when they are determined to put the squeeze on Iran.
The party can at least claim to have fulfilled one dream of the protesters of 1919: China is now a global power (Mr Xi will be careful to ensure that his trade agreement with America's president, Donald Trump, expected soon, does not look like surrender).
It wants the world, and its own people, to know that it is a global power—that it boasts not just a titanic economy, but the geopolitical sway and military might to match, soft power of all sorts, a storied past and a glorious future.
"We are witnessing a transformation of global power markets led by renewables and, as is the case with other fields, the center of gravity for renewable growth is moving to emerging markets," Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said in a news release.
Find ways to deescalate and solve global conflicts The re-emergence of a global power confrontation not seen since the Cold War has led to near political paralysis at the U.N. Security Council -- a dynamic which has stymied efforts to find solutions to conflicts.
Despite efforts to revamp its image, Goldman has remained a byword for elitism, something that Trump tapped into during the election campaign, releasing a television ad that characterized Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein as part of a "global power structure" that had robbed America's working class.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for China to become a global power in space exploration, with plans to send a probe to the dark side of the moon by 2018, the first ever such trip, and to put astronauts on the moon by 2036.
While North Korea may dominate the headlines as Trump tries to cajole Xi into tougher sanctions on the Hermit Kingdom, the unspoken narrative will be Trump's efforts to burnish his own credentials as a man of true global power, exerting his will over Xi's reticence.
At root, the US-Russia conflict stems from Putin's desire to expand Russian influence at America's expense — tearing at the edges of the American-led global order to make Russia into the same kind of global power it was in the days of the USSR.
The guest list at the two-hour ceremony struck a balance between the ascent of Mr. Modi's party as the country's dominant political force, and Mr. Modi's ambitions of projecting India as a global power, particularly in a region where China has made deep inroads.
Second, its tightly argued thesis addresses a question sure to be revisited during this anniversary of the Spanish-American War: to wit, why the United States in 1898 suddenly cast off its traditions and, in an imperialist jag, claimed the role of a global power.
The Trump administration will throw a spotlight this week on America's presence in the Arctic, a region the president's team sees as "an arena of global power and competition," as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will put it in a speech Monday in Finland.
Renewables provided 8 percent of the world's electricity in 2017, according to statistics from BP. While this remains a small fraction of the global energy mix, it's a 17 percent jump from the year before and accounted for nearly half of 2017's global power generation growth.
Some will argue that applying such a toxic label to a major global power, one with a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council, will not get it to back down, and might even further damage American-Russia ties, already at an all-time low.
That was regarded by Chinese officials as a welcome affirmation of China's growing global power, and as an opportunity to secure greater international support for China's efforts to secure the return of corrupt officials who had fled abroad—an important part of Mr Xi's anti-corruption campaign.
Alex de Vries, a bitcoin specialist at PwC, estimates that the current global power consumption for the servers that run bitcoin's software is a minimum of 2.55 gigawatts (GW), which amounts to energy consumption of 673 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year—almost the same as Ireland.
The company's Global Power Generation (GPG) has secured a 20 year term Feed-in Tariff for 91 MW in the Crookwell 2 wind farm project to be built in the state of New South Wales, in the Australian Capital Region (ACR), investing about 120 million euros.
Headed by Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian church has increasingly sought to assert itself as the pre-eminent voice of the Orthodox faith, in tandem with a push by Mr. Putin to assert Russia's influence as a global power.
WASHINGTON — In a rare act of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, the Senate passed a $700 billion defense policy bill on Monday that sets forth a muscular vision of America as a global power, with a Pentagon budget that far exceeds what President Trump has asked for.
And he had incentive to cooperate again in the run-up to the 2016 election, as he tried to win permission to travel more easily to the United States, where he has long sought more freedom to do business and greater acceptance as a global power broker.
The research sees, among other things: solar photovoltaic technology providing 29 percent of global power generation by 2050, phasing out coal in the process; electric vehicles making up more than two thirds of the road transport market by 2050; and demand for coal and oil peaking by 2020.
In 2017, I predict at least one global power democratic decision being overturned and unrest beginning (unfortunately, or fortunately — whichever way you see it) and that will be accelerated by social content networks and activists writing for larger publications that accelerate the sentiment of the few to the masses.
Answer: If we walk away with no deal, we would be inflicting a massive dislocation upon our international relations across a wide range of sectors and interests, now and into the future... The government claims that it wants to be a global power and champion of free trade.
First proposed in the 1950s and taken up four years ago by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as a response to fraying EU unity, an EU armed forces is seen as strengthening the global power of the bloc, which is an economic giant but a geopolitical minnow.
The report said that electric vehicles could make up a third of the world's road transport market by 22050 and that solar PV could supply 22040 percent of global power generation by 20403, entirely phasing out coal and leaving natural gas with only a 22040 percent market share.
The landmark case, brought by the Philippines, was seen as an important crossroads in China's rise as a global power and in its rivalry with the United States, and it could force Beijing to reconsider its assertive tactics in the region or risk being labeled an international outlaw.
At a time when international trade and the structure of alliances with foreign partners are hot button issues, the Founders would see that these are the tangible reminders of how their experiment grew into a global power capable of sharing the benefits of prosperity and peace around the world.
Mr. Putin has achieved many of his main goals: bringing Russia back to center stage as a global power; preventing, on principle, regime change by outside powers, particularly Western ones; gaining a stronger foothold in Syria; picking off Russian jihadists on the Syrian battlefield; and strengthening Mr. Assad.
Now it is swimming for a political settlement to the Syrian war, hoping to cement its renewed status as a global power — but given Mr. Assad's history, he may very well sink the negotiations and explain, as several diplomats put it, that making deals is not in his nature.
AMS, which makes a large part of its revenues from sensors for the face recognition technology in the latest iPhones but wants to reduce its dependence on Apple, is interested in Osram's technologies for self-driving cars and wants to create a global power in sensors and photonics.
Events like the Sochi Winter Games and the World Cup cast Russia in the role of a global power, which helps to foster national pride and to defuse the notion that the West has isolated Russia through international sanctions, diplomatic expulsions and other measures prompted by recent events.
"We believe the chances that GE could be removed from the Dow are increasing as GE continues to face substantial challenges including earnings and cash pressure, tough global power generation markets, aggressive downsizing, shrinking its portfolio, management shake-up and SEC investigations," Deutsche Bank analyst John Inch wrote Wednesday.
Undermining McMaster in Munich Since an iconic speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2007, in which he previewed a shift in policy toward the United States by complaining it acted as the world's sole "master" and "sovereign," Putin has emerged as a challenger to US global power.
But I am also very fond of "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power," because it so infuriated a certain species of second-rate professor of post-colonial studies — though not so much that they actually read the book.
Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy: Gas Natural plans to invest some 700 million euros in renewable projects outside of Spain in the short term as part of its 2018-2020 strategic plan, El Economista reported citing the head of affiliate Global Power Generation.
But if it's ironic that Trump rose to the pinnacle of global power on the strength of a failed campaign to delegitimize Obama, it's also fitting that his own presidency will begin under a mix of suspicions and legitimacy questions that are very real and that Trump brought upon himself.
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May, in her first major parliamentary appearance since taking office last week, won a vote on Monday to authorize and update Britain's nuclear arsenal, a move intended to underscore the nation's commitment to remaining a global power despite its recent decision to leave the European Union.
British Prime Minister Theresa May may not be able to hold her Cabinet together, the United Kingdom may be headed for oblivion as a global power and we may be back once again to being contenderless at Wimbledon, but at least our government is not locking up children at the border.
But the comments by Putin, who is presiding over a project to restore Russia's lost global power and influence, and Trump, who will shortly become the US commander-in-chief, did not spell out exactly what each side is proposing or whether a major change of nuclear doctrine is in the offing.
Trump tried to turn the tide Thursday, after struggling to counter the core Democratic argument that he had abused his power to hurt a political rival, Joe Biden, including staging a remarkable photo op in which he effectively asked China, America's rising geopolitical rival for global power, to help him win in 2020.
The United States acquired vast swaths of territory (my home of Arizona included) from Mexico in a war that a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln opposed as immoral, and yet for most of its history as a global power, the United States hasn't needed to deploy its military to secure its southern border.
Mitsui may consider selling its stake in the new coal-fired power plant projects in Malaysia and Morocco, under a new 3-year business plan which will start next April, if such deals would bring capital gains, Yasunaga said, citing the company's plan to increase renewable energy within its global power generation portfolio.
Instead, global power brokers like French President Emmanuel Macron, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel strode out one-by-one on to the stage of the U.N. General Assembly in New York and for the most part riffed on the same blandly inoffensive principles: Climate change is definitely happening.
In Washington politicians, scholars, soldiers and spies are digging out works by Halford Mackinder, a British geographer who in 1904 argued that global power lies in control of the "Heartland", a pivot region between the Volga and the Yangzi that offers dominance over the "world island", the combined land mass of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Why this is a big deal: In the same way that Britain ruled its 19th century empire through a far-flung navy, and the U.S. has done so through its trade deals and its own big naval ships, Beijing is preparing for the day years from now when it may be the premier global power.
Speaking via a video link at a news conference in Berlin to mark a decade since the inception of WikiLeaks, Mr. Assange vowed that his organization would continue to provide a platform for the release of classified documents held by the United States and by other governments and institutions in positions of global power.
Rather than beginning a final term next month as a lame duck, Mr. Xi will govern with new authority to pursue his agenda of making China a global power even if it risks putting Beijing in conflict with Washington and triggering a new Cold War after 40 years of mutual engagement, the analysts said.
"It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities," presidential candidate Trump crowed to his supporters a month before they voted him into office.
But when asked whether the world would be better off with the U.S. or China as the leading global power, respondents overwhelmingly choose the U.S. Why it matters: The U.S. is far less popular around the world than it was before Trump took office, and the decline has been particularly sharp in countries like the U.K., Germany and Canada.
Taken together, these contentions amount to saying that the U.S. is a paper tiger, that it might seem like a global power but it is softer than it looks, that it is prepared to retreat into Fortress America rather than uphold the international order it created in the 1940s during World War II and the early Cold War.
GOP presidential front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE said late Monday that the Iran nuclear deal made Tehran a global power that now threatens Saudi Arabia's existence.
Even before he began his campaign for the presidency, Mr. Trump was known as a critic of policies that opened markets in the United States to lower-cost Asian goods and helped fuel the dizzying growth that transformed Japan, gave rise to the dynamic economies known as the four Asian tigers, and propelled China's emergence as a global power.
"We're going to get an outcome which forces China to behave in a way that, if you want to be a power, a global power — transparency, rule of law, you don't steal intellectual property, the fundamental principles of trade around the world ... those are things the American people are demanding and the American workers deserve," Pompeo said.
Though the extent and duration of the downturn will not be known for several months, it is already becoming clear that Chinese President Xi Jinping will leverage the crisis to further bolster his power as the country's leader as he seeks to return China to what he views as its rightful position as a preeminent global power.
The surprise move, revealed in a dryly worded proposal to amend the Constitution, is the boldest yet by Mr. Xi as he seeks to strengthen the party's control over a modernizing society and restore China to what he considers its rightful place as a global power — an agenda that his allies have suggested requires his personal leadership.
But the battalion, based in Estonia as a critical part of NATO's response to Russia's invasion of Crimea in 223, is the polished surface of a hollow shell — a British military that has been badly damaged by austerity and political choices that have consistently favored symbol over substance in a struggle to remain a global power.
The answer: Consider how much oil flows from the Persian Gulf and the Arabian deserts to the West; for Russia, that alone makes the region's countries either its rivals or its partners, oil being the one plausible resource on which to pin Mr. Putin's hopes of restoring Russia's status as a global power capable of challenging the United States.
Indeed, former Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisCongressionally appointed panel recommends US halt Syria withdrawal Climate change threatens the backbone of America's global power The Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes 22019 roadshow to New Mexico MORE calls the changing climate "a driver of instability" that will catalyze conflict and put more U.S. troops in harm's way.
On the other hand, if you think that a country that is poised, as Xi Jinping says, to "take center stage in the world" ought to take a bigger stake and more responsibilities in a cornerstone international institution, then China's larger role at the U.N. looks like an important step in its maturation as a global power.
Fatih Birol, the IEA's director, says the three main drivers were a big growth of renewable-energy use in global power generation, led by wind turbines; a switch in America from coal-fired plants to natural-gas-fuelled ones after the shale revolution and a government-led effort in China to curb emissions due to concerns about pollution as well as climate change.
MOSCOW — Tiger shooter, bare-chested horseman and architect of Russia's revival as a muscular global power, President Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in a somber suit and tie, sat for over an hour this past week sipping tea from a delicate porcelain cup and offering earnest advice on how to improve housing, medical care and other services in a provincial town south of here.
The last time China was a global power, back in the early 1400s, it also sought to amplify its glory and might along the Maritime Silk Road, through the epic voyages of Zheng He. A towering Ming dynasty eunuch — in some accounts he stands seven feet tall — Zheng He commanded seven expeditions from Asia to the Middle East and Africa.
Washington (CNN)The Pentagon is making it clear that Russia is to blame after two warships nearly collided in the Pacific on Friday, but while the incident was another tense military encounter involving the two countries, the fact that it took place in China's backyard is raising concerns about growing cooperation between Moscow and Beijing to challenge US's position as the preeminent global power.
"China wants to be seen as a responsible global power, and it is still possible (though very unlikely) that the Communist Party may elevate a woman to the Standing Committee during this Congress in order to give the impression that it is more modern and friendly to women," said Leta Hong Fincher, author of a forthcoming book called Betraying Big Brother: China's Feminist Resistance.
In a nutshell, the unprecedented release—one fugitive Edward Snowden called "the biggest document leak in the history of data journalism"—exposes how the firm helped establish secret shell companies and offshore accounts for global power players, including alleged associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, politicians from dozens of countries, and hundreds of wealthy Americans, some of whom have been accused or even convicted by US authorities of financial crimes.
We had only about 30 minutes on the phone with Mr. Zuckerberg, but we managed to get him to address several important topics: the Cambridge Analytica mess, Facebook's lax data policies, its plans to clamp down on third-party developer access and notify users whose data was misused, election interference (including previously unreported Macedonian attempts to interfere in last year's Alabama special election) and Facebook's broader responsibility as a global power.
While not in a post-war reconstruction mode, the tremendous potential for future development and consumption within the Asia-Pacific today makes it imperative we foster the types of economic partnerships that served us so well after World War II. The global power distribution is rapidly shifting towards the Asia-Pacific; by 85033, 3.2 billion people – or the majority of the global middle-class – will reside in this region.
America was officially a global power, one that intervened in a number of countries, made major diplomatic moves in East Asia, and played a critical role in ending World War I. The next crucial step, though, came after World War II. The United States was the only country to emerge from the war in strong economic and military shape, and thus was in a unique position to shape the terms of the peace.
"Wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources added 138.5 gigawatts to global power capacity in 2016, up almost 9 per cent … Investment in renewables capacity was roughly double that in fossil fuel generation; the corresponding new capacity from renewables was equivalent to 55% of all new power… The proportion of electricity coming from renewables excluding large hydro rose from 10.3 per cent to 2017 per cent," reports Science Daily.
Just like they have total control over Hillary Clinton," he said during the campaign, And in an election eve ad, a video clip of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein rolls as Trump, in a voiceover, talks of defeating "a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
Both on her own and as part of global power couple 'Billary,' Clinton has often been at the forefront of national and international-level HIV politics—publicly expressing her support for people with AIDS throughout her time as First Lady; pushing to preserve Ryan White Funding for states hit hardest by the AIDS crisis while she was in the Senate; using her pulpit at the State Department to work towards an "AIDS-free generation;" and working with the Clinton Foundation to push companies to make generic, affordable AIDS drugs.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE announced in December he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria and has repeatedly claimed total defeat for ISIS, blindsiding allies and prompting the resignation of James MattisJames Norman MattisCongressionally appointed panel recommends US halt Syria withdrawal Climate change threatens the backbone of America's global power The Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes 2020 roadshow to New Mexico MORE as Defense secretary.
Then Trump ascended to the presidency, openly praising autocratic politicians, like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, even meeting and shaking hands with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. "He has trashed our allies, and our western democracy alliances, and this happened at the very same time that China and Russia were surging in their global power ambitions, and developed new means, digital and otherwise, new instruments, and made plans to intervene, to roll back democratic gains, to scourge and pre-empt new democratic breakthroughs, because they don't want any more examples of revolutions that could give their own people ideas," Diamond said.
It's worth looking at the key phrases from his comments yesterday at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida (you can read a fuller transcript here): It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities… We've seen this firsthand in the WikiLeaks documents in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of US sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends, and her donors... This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.

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