Diplomacy and Double Standards

The institute claims that its standards and facilities are superior to those of state run medical universities.

Every practice and standard will have to be rethought.

There's a double standard.

While providing relatively fewer tangible public goods and services directly, the Chinese government will need to provide more intangible public goods and services like rules, standards, and policies.

lax accounting standards.

We need better standards and stronger laws.

And, more deplorably, educational standards lagged.

KVN politics

Sports and politics

The SCSI standards define commands, protocols and electrical and optical interfaces.

Living standards should be higher.

We have very high standards.

Naming standards also vary.

We have a situation where private companies are applying censorship standards that are often quite arbitrary and generally more narrow than the free speech constitutional standards that we have in democracies.

The Scheme language standard requires implementations to recognize and optimize tail recursion.

But, in some cases, the harmonized standard could be more stringent than some countries original standards.

New vehicle emission standards meet the most stringent equivalent European standards, and are higher than in the United States.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non military government agencies and government contractors.

Lula and the Politics of the Precipice

Politics and Corporate Money

Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

Religion, politics and violence

Even the new Basel 3 banking standards have been diluted and postponed.

Transport, video and audio standards for broadcast quality television.

World currency standards have enormous inertia.

Experience suggests that importing laws and legal standards rarely works well.

But politics, alas, is politics.

Asymmetries of Information and Economic Policy

Japan and the Politics of Guilt

Jobless Recoveries and Manic Policies

And what is Western policy?

Money, Politics, and Opposition to Bush

Domestic Spying and Chinese Politics

But this is what politics is all about.

The Chinese Economy and Fed Policy

And, yes, there are all the politics.

What is the relationship between politics and war?

What's the relationship between politics and war?

These double standards form a pillar of today's machismo.

I assume you have standards.

We can try to inculcate better ethical standards.

In this way, trade can raise living standards.

The industry wants to self police themselves.

B. Standards of conduct for the international civil service