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The phrase "asset foreign policy" is not correct in English and seems to be a combination of two separate concepts.
It may be intended to refer to a foreign policy that emphasizes the importance of national assets or resources, but as it stands, it lacks clarity and coherence.
Example: "The government needs to develop a coherent strategy that aligns with its asset foreign policy to ensure national security."
Alternatives: "resource-based foreign policy" or "national asset strategy".
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And since 1992, when Bill Clinton recognized that the end of the cold war made George Bush's victory in the Persian Gulf very nearly irrelevant as a political asset, foreign policy has become an electoral afterthought.
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So the latest Memoghazi arguments might best be summarized this way: After Democrats convincingly argued Trump made a suspected Russian asset a key foreign policy advisor, Republicans insisted that doesn't matter because the suspected Russian asset was a moron.
So the latest Memoghazi arguments might best be summarised this way: After Democrats convincingly argued Trump made a suspected Russian asset a key foreign policy advisor, Republicans insisted that doesn't matter because the suspected Russian asset was a moron.
Our intelligence community has historically devoted many more of its assets to traditional foreign policy problems terrorism, political instability or nuclear proliferation and viewed mass atrocity crimes merely as a proxy measure of regime stability.
Japanese politicians - including Prime Minister Abe Shinzo - have adopted a new discourse depicting pacifism as a hindrance, rather than asset, to Japan's foreign policy.
That same dynamic is at work overseas; Stephen J. Hadley, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, calls the first lady "a foreign policy asset to the president".
"Our foreign policy assets - military, defence, economic, trade, diplomatic and foreign aid will be focused not exclusively but unambiguously on our region, and our focus will be on economic diplomacy.
It has so far stopped short of the US move of freezing assets, but the EU foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, said the bloc will "urgently consider further appropriate and targeted measures".
During the Cold War, we used refugee resettlement to gain foreign policy assets, spies, allies, and spokesmen to refute the enemy's propaganda.
"American mass culture has been one of the country's greatest foreign policy assets," writes Walter Hixson in "Parting the Curtain," his study of psychological warfare against the Soviet bloc during the Cold War.
Underlying Qatar's investments in the euro zone is a broader strategy of linking foreign asset diversification with support for foreign policy initiatives, analysts say.
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