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But the damage will not be easily undone.
As China enters an era of more subdued growth amid increased competition from other low-cost countries, this damage will become increasingly apparent – and increasingly destructive.
And a lot less damage would have been done to the companies he once served so well.
But unless Germany addresses the roots of that slowdown at home, it risks taking a huge hit, in the event that its currency is sharply revalued, in the form of lower exports and damage to its already-weak banking sector, resulting from deflation and negative long-term interest rates.
A significant sovereign-debt restructuring there would bring down European banks and potentially damage US banks – as well as financial institutions around the world.
More important, they would risk doing real long-term damage to their country.
And Xi has plenty of policy tools available to ensure that the Chinese economy does not suffer any serious damage from US tariffs.
This is because the trade war’s next stage – when tariffs are increased from 10% to 25% and possibly extended to all Chinese imports – will prove more unpopular with US voters and do more damage to US economic prospects than the current phony war, which has consisted of more rhetoric than action.
The damage is thus almost equal to that of the Great Depression – and equally painful, even though America’s real GDP today is 12 times higher than it was in 1929.
While enormous amounts of time and resources have been dedicated to learning the technical lessons of the Fukushima accident (and rightly so), not enough have been spent on trying to understand and address the damage to public health caused by misinformation.
Attempting to mitigate future domestic political damage by undermining the dynamics of the relationship between South Korea and Japan – and both countries’ relationship with the United States – is unwise.
Even taking into account some of the key environmental damage from warming, we would lose money on the investment, with returns of just $685 billion.
And other countries in the Middle East feared that the agreement would alter the regional balance of power and damage their own interests.
Abe would do even more damage to the region’s perception of Japan were he to use his speech to try to mollify right-wing supporters.
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to America as well, impairing its military power and undermining the morale of the armed forces.
First, governments will bail out the largest banks rather than let them collapse and damage the economy.
Large-scale natural disasters – hurricanes in Puerto Rico, floods in South Asia, earthquakes in Mexico – have brought massive damage and loss of life, and not nearly enough relief aid.
The advantages of this approach are that it contains the damage from one country’s peculiar behavior.
By assuming away the damage that highly leveraged megabanks can do, the myth of a “good crisis” merely makes political pressure on central banks all the more likely.
Japan’s triumph in 1905 over “the Great White Power,” Russia, repaired the damage to China’s sense of dignity.
The only novelty may be the extent of the damage it causes.
The gesture of defiance would damage both its reputation and other territorial interests, not least its claims against Japan in the East China Sea, which rely on UNCLOS’s continental-shelf provisions.
Then, in 2016, Russian military intelligence went a step further, by hacking into the private network of the Democratic National Committee, stealing information, and releasing it online to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy.
Following this breakthrough, the first serious cross-party campaign explicitly aiming to stop Brexit, and not merely to mitigate damage by seeking a “softer” divorce deal, will be launched later this month.
Some would welcome the damage this would do to European unity; we would not.
While all-out nuclear war may be less likely now, these arsenals – and the doctrines and operations attached to their deployment – threaten to inflict serious long-term damage on the global environment, which would be true even if their deployment were confined to one region.
Those advocating for harm reduction accept that drugs have always been a part of human history and aim to decrease the damage caused by their production and use.
At the same time, given the potential for long-lasting damage to growth, it has become even more important to maintain adequate demand stimulus so long as unemployment remains high.
But importing assistance may not only be less effective; it might actually cause more damage in the long run.
Beyond the damage it is doing to the economy, Kosovo is also destabilising Bulgaria politically.
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