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In America, one can feel the
backlash
mounting.
At the same time, fiscal policy has been constrained in some countries by high deficits and debts (which jeopardize market access), and in others (the eurozone, the United Kingdom, and the United States, for example) by a political
backlash
against further fiscal stimulus, leading to austerity measures that undermine short-term growth.
The
backlash
against globalization has been with us for two decades.
But lately, the character of globalization has been changing, and so has the
backlash
against it.
If home countries do not put in place the adjustment mechanisms to deal with the rapidly unfolding revolution in making service industry jobs tradable, a
backlash
against such outward FDI will become inevitable.
It would be ironic, though, if developed countries – which led the FDI liberalization wave of the past two decades – now led a
backlash
against FDI.
May’s government knew that, if the Leave campaign’s deception had been revealed, her Conservative Party, now tethered to Brexit, would have faced a potentially disastrous
backlash.
But two types of
backlash
are now casting doubt on globalization’s future.
But the
backlash
against economic globalization is only half of the story.
There has also been a
backlash
against cultural globalization – encompassing cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and secularism – driven by those who seek the comforts of traditional ethnic, religious, or national identity.
This identity-focused
backlash
is exemplified by US President Donald Trump, whose slogan, “Make America Great Again,” was code for “Make America White Again” – a message that appealed to the unemployed, bitter, and increasingly xenophobic white blue-collar voters that formed the core of Trump’s base.
Taken together, the two types of
backlash
against globalization explain why protectionist barriers to the free flow of goods, capital, and labor have been erected even in developed Western countries that long advocated greater openness.
The economic and cultural
backlash
must be resisted, and the promise of global integration realized for all.
In fact, from a domestic perspective, China’s attempts to portray itself as the victim – claiming that Indian troops had illegally entered Chinese territory, where they remain – has been distinctly damaging, provoking a nationalist
backlash
over the failure to evict the intruders.
The challenge for France and Germany now is thus to capitalize on the recent victories for pro-European governments without provoking a
backlash
in the other EU member states.
The sense among ordinary Burmese that the Chinese were looting the country’s resources has led to an anti-China backlash, including problems with a copper mine in Monywa and the cancellation last year of the Myitsone hydroelectric dam.
The populist
backlash
against globalization in the West will not be stilled by Macron’s victory, and could still lead to protectionism, trade wars, and sharp restrictions to migration.
Still, it is worth looking back to the Bretton Woods conference, which responded to the interwar
backlash
against globalization by treating poverty, autarky, and war as causally interlinked phenomena.
Warnings of a severe political
backlash
went unheeded.
Now, with Greece’s voters having driven out their country’s exhausted and corrupt elite in favor of a party that has vowed to end austerity, the
backlash
has arrived.
While the more moderate Hillary Clinton is likely to defeat the recklessly isolationist Donald Trump, the
backlash
against openness that has fueled Trump’s rise will not dissipate on its own.
But Clinton will also have to address some of the real grievances that spurred the
backlash
against economic openness.
Otherwise, we risk a
backlash
against allowing any machine to function autonomously.
Media coverage fueled a
backlash
of overwhelming public revulsion.
Now that the so-called liberal establishment is feeling the nationalist, bigoted
backlash
that its own illiberalism brought about, it is responding a little like the proverbial parricide who appeals to the court for leniency on the grounds that he is now an orphan.
But for the rest of the twentieth century, the
backlash
cycle seemed to have stopped.
But make no mistake: There is nothing normal or healthy about economic performance that is increasing inequality and, in many countries, leading to a populist
backlash
– both on the right and the left – against trade, globalization, migration, technological innovation, and market-oriented policies.
Without growth, any austerity and reform will deliver only social unrest and the constant threat of a political backlash, without restoring debt sustainability.
The methods are brutal evidence of a
backlash
by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation: women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.
Indeed, fearful of popular
backlash
against its decision to release the crew of the US spyplane without securing either a meaningful American apology or adequate financial compensation, China's government quietly shut down several popular internet sites in the weeks following the spy plane incident - including the chatroom that posted the above-cited messages.
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