I choose C and E, but I don't know if you need to only choose 1 (:
<em>China’s growing global role and increasingly hardline policies at home and abroad gain attention, the United States and other Western governments are also taking notice of China’s expanding influence in developing countries. The implications of China’s growing investments linked to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its ambitious global infrastructure and connectivity program, are increasingly debated. So, too, are the nature of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to popularize its authoritarian model and undermine developing democracies around the world, whether intentionally or indirectly.1 In November, Vice President Pence noted that the administration, through its Indo-Pacific strategy, intends to bolster the rule of law and human rights in regional countries facing growing influence from China.</em>
<em>hope</em><em> </em><em>this</em><em> </em><em>help</em><em>.</em><em>.</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>:</em><em>)</em>
A bank of the U.S., or the National Bank.
Generally speaking, in a cost-benefit analysis done by a government, “cost” is defined as the negative aspect of what will happen if the government decides to go through with whatever they're debating. It's what the government will lose as a result of this action.
So this term is usually known as laws so absurd that it shouldn't even be a law. Examples are like "One may not eat oatmeal on their porch on Saturdays in ______". The term came from the idea that they shouldn't need to be stated and that they are just morally wrong. Or that one MUST do something because it is morally right to do that.
