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Sharp contradictions between different strands of Chinese policy are becoming ever more obvious.
But if they believe that, say, the Chinese are becoming wealthier, while their own real (inflation-adjusted) wages remain largely stagnant, they will not accept globalization.
If their own societies’ wealthiest members are also becoming richer, conditions become ripe for anti-establishment rebellion.
But, looking forward, as these headwinds fade, faster growth and poverty alleviation are becoming easier to achieve.
For investors, the deepest obstacles are informational: what works best, and under which circumstances?New data sources about relative impacts are becoming available, and are desperately needed.
When a Republican politician compares US property taxes with the Holocaust, as one Senate candidate did in 2014, the mass murder of Jews is trivialized to the extent of becoming meaningless.
This prevented the Great Recession from becoming Great Depression II.
Indeed, by becoming an Islamic state, Pakistan ultimately – and perhaps inevitably –became something of a “jihadi” state.
Indeed, Pakistan aspired at one point to becoming something of a modern extension of India’s long-ruling Mughal dynasty.
But this aspiration grossly misread both the present and the inherited historical reality, for Pakistan also wanted to be a legatee of British India – a confused desire that made Pakistan more vulnerable to becoming a “rented state” than when it was part of either the Mughal or British Empire.
The advantage of imports becoming cheaper more than outweighs the losses in export revenue.
Meanwhile, the already-hazy lines between asylum-seekers, refugees, displaced persons, and purely economic migrants are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish at all.
Even if individual countries are becoming more democratic, it seems, the sum of global democracy is shrinking thanks in no small part to globalization.
While one should not read too much into such a visit, it is safe to say that China’s next leader knows that the Celestial Kingdom is becoming unsettled.
It is also becoming more sustainable, in line with the shift in its growth model away from investment and exports and toward domestic demand and services.
Transparency of this kind is needed if Japan is to make a stronger contribution to world affairs and help prevent the 21 st century from becoming yet another century of war.
Business majors should study economic and political history to avoid becoming blind determinists.
Moreover, many fragile states are at risk of becoming failed ones, exacerbating the ongoing refugee crisis.
It is not only the crises extending from Ukraine to Syria that will prevent the MSC, the fiftieth, from becoming an exercise in self-celebration.
In the past, the Western allies’ participation in NATO and its Nuclear Planning Group accommodated their concerns and prevented them from becoming mere objects of US strategy.
But the dangers of having such a person in the Oval Office were now becoming harder to ignore.
Generous pensions and protectionist laws are becoming permanent features of the landscape.
As a result, countries are becoming ensnared in a debt trap that leaves them vulnerable to China’s influence.
There was never any public explanation for this message, either, just rumors - that "Roma" was Roman Abramovich (this was long before the tycoon bought the Chelsea football team, becoming a world celebrity), and that he had close ties with then President Boris Yeltsin's inner circle, known as "the Family."
Perhaps Puerto Rico is, at last, becoming more American.
Or perhaps it is becoming more European, given the resemblance of its debt problems to those of Greece.
Puerto Ricans’ freedom to move to the mainland was not enough to keep unemployment from becoming a secular problem: around 11% before the 2008 financial crisis, a 17% peak in 2010, and above 12% recently.
Last month, parallel developments on opposite sides of the world gave us grounds for thinking that the world may, slowly and haltingly, be becoming a little more civilized.
The best hope for further progress, it seems, lies in animal welfare becoming, like human rights, an international issue that affects countries’ reputations.
To be sure, the challenge ahead is as broad as it is complex; but it is becoming increasingly clear that making the transition to a low-carbon economy will bring considerable economic benefits.
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