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Which brings us to the burning question: Will the US-China trade conflict end with a peaceful resolution or an acrimonious divorce?
In the United States, an acrimonious and divisive presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s election, and a wave of post-election protests all speak to the importance of paying attention to both political messages and cultural divisions.
The grudging short-term compromise between the IMF and Europe comes after months of sometimes acrimonious discussions.
However, such a body would not prevent acrimonious debate, particularly in view of the absence of any of the "new" NATO members.
If anything, the greater concern now is that US-Russian relations are becoming increasingly acrimonious, even irrationally so.
It then descended into scandal and acrimonious infighting between the party’s president, Marine Le Pen, and its founder, her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who was ultimately expelled).
Moral disputes over history, once the most acrimonious in post-war Europe, are over, and even the Left Party – still somewhat nostalgic for East Germany – is coming around to an anti-totalitarian consensus, with real consequences for policy and political self-perception.
For the rest of us, the key question is whether America and China will be increasingly acrimonious competitors or cooperative partners, albeit with very different political systems.
Barely a month after the rejection of the European Union Constitution in France and the Netherlands, the EU Summit in Brussels ended in a surprisingly acrimonious orgy of national egoisms and no deal.
Sri Lanka, almost since independence in 1948, has been racked by acrimonious rivalry between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, who make up 12% of today’s 21.3-million population.
Almost the entire Shadow Cabinet has resigned, having lost confidence in party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and efforts to challenge him have been exceptionally acrimonious, with Corbyn supporters even throwing a brick through the window of one of his rivals' constituency office.
His long-gestating speech on Europe, although containing elements that many might share, also sows the seeds for a prolonged and acrimonious debate – and not just in Britain.
Unfortunately, the acrimonious politics surrounding today’s jobs debate makes crafting the right policy response difficult.
Admittedly, Europe’s increasingly divisive zero-sum thinking is not entirely new: the EU is accustomed to distributional disputes, and the lengthy budget discussions (which take place every seven years) are typically acrimonious affairs.
But, after some rather acrimonious conversations in recent weeks, one cannot be confident that either outcome will come to pass.
The uncertainty and disruption of drawn-out and doubtless acrimonious divorce proceedings would depress investment and growth.
This is fast becoming the standard account of Brazil’s election, the most acrimonious and hotly contested in recent memory.
Let’s start with the only certainties: the Brexit negotiations will be long, complex, and acrimonious, and the divorce will have far-reaching geopolitical effects.
First, if the UK-EU divorce proceedings become protracted and acrimonious, growth and markets will suffer.
With no equivalent patron to smooth the way for the UK, negotiations following a vote for withdrawal would be complicated and acrimonious, dragging out over a number of years.
Distributing a burden between creditors and debtors is inevitably acrimonious, because it is a purely zero-sum game.
Britain has much to fear from an acrimonious divorce, as it will inevitably be swept into its turbulent wake.
Political conflicts between friends are usually acrimonious and this is no exception.
Meanwhile, Trump has already declared war on the adversarial American press, and held acrimonious telephone conversations with friendly countries’ leaders.
The IMF’s difficulty in saying no to Argentina partly reflects an acrimonious history stemming from the failed loans from the late 1990s through 2001.
Ever since the pandemic began to spread beyond Wuhan and around the world, there has been an increasingly acrimonious debate regarding which preventive measures should be decreed by government and enforced by public officials and the police, and which should be promoted as social norms.
It hasn’t helped that in the midst of all this, US President Donald Trump has made India a target of his increasingly acrimonious approach to trading partners.
This hardball strategy might work, but it would also increase the risk of an acrimonious no-deal Brexit.