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And, like last time, the bigger the bubbles become, the nastier the collision with reality will be.
So Brazil is on a collision course with the future.
Anatomy of a Revolution DelayedThe ongoing conflict between Iran’s rulers and the Iranian public is the result of a head-on collision between two contradictory forces.
What makes the Sino-American relationship dangerous is that powerful forces in both countries seem intent on a collision course.
In agriculture, small farmers would be placed on a collision course with US agro-business and their heavily subsidized farm exports.
The anemic labor standards enshrined in this agreement encourage firms to compete by taking the low road, a route that puts them on a collision course with China’s rock-bottom wages.
Observing the EU from the outside is like watching a train collision in slow motion – and one that was announced at the station.
The US is on this path again, heading for a collision with a nuclear-armed adversary, and it will remain on it unless other countries, other American leaders, and public opinion block the way.
Technical support for greater air transparency would also significantly reduce the risk of a mid-air collision.
The same could be said of the current conflict between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the West: It is, at root, a collision between the West’s supposedly universal values and Russia’s quest for a distinct identity.
A permanent settlement on Mars would reduce the risk of climate change – or a nuclear war, bioterrorism, or asteroid collision – wiping out our species.
For starters, a Greek exit from the eurozone may have been only postponed, not prevented, as pension and other structural reforms put the country on a collision course with its European creditors.
From 1993 to 2001 a series of abrasive encounters poisoned the atmosphere: the forced boarding of a Chinese merchant ship (wrongly suspected of carrying chemical warfare components to Iran) in the Arabian Gulf;US efforts to block China's bid to host the 2000 Olympics; escalating tensions over Taiwan; the Wen Ho Lee affair (where China was falsely implicated in the theft of American nuclear secrets); the accidental bombing of China's embassy by US warplanes during the Kosovo war; and the mid-air collision of a US spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter last year.
Unfortunately, however, the economic trajectory that Congress is plotting, though it may well boost growth in the short term, is ultimately on a collision course with both equity and sustainability.
The collision of these forces could fundamentally transform the world’s second-largest economy.
Indeed, in part because tsunamis are one of the risks of an asteroid collision, the Indian Ocean disaster has stimulated new interest in asteroid defense.
The new political leadership, both inside and outside the parliament, has been carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the president.
The collision of reality (Greece’s insolvency) with politics (Germany’s demands) was bound to create a disaster.
Since Confucianism was essentially an agnostic ideology, concerned with the management of the visible world, the post-Confucians experienced little of the spiritual angst that afflicted Hindus, Muslims, and Christians in their collision with the “materialism” of industrial society.
Since an asteroid collision could, like global climate change, affect all of humanity, should not everyone have some say in the decision?
So when he speaks of “trains with no drivers that seem to be on a collision course,” as he recently did at a private meeting in Berlin, interested parties should probably prepare for unwanted developments.
Indeed, it was this principle that, once invoked to justify NATO enlargement in the 1990s, put the two sides on a collision course.
With the Greek government and its creditors once again on a collision course, the risk of Greece’s exit may return.
If the world is to avoid a collision with nature – one that humanity surely cannot win – we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies.
Imagine a world without traffic lights, where vehicular flows “magically” pass through one another and avoid collision.
With anxiety mounting across Europe that industrial lay-offs will mean major plant closures and cascading job losses in thousands of smaller companies, national governments find themselves on a collision course with the EU, though they know that their best chance of salvation lies in concerted European action.
I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.
A year later, with Italy on a collision course with the EU, the Meseberg Summit between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Macron delivered an agreement on eurozone reform.
Still, diplomats know that war can be preferable to humiliation, which is why saving face is just as important as threatening force – and why other countries should step in and provide the room that both sides need to avoid a head-on collision.
Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in the winter of 2008-2009 re-established deterrence and brought a period of relative calm; but it has been clear since the start of 2012 that the parties were once again on a collision course.
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