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Far from creating a healthy complementarity between the sexes, it perpetuates
dependence
on both sides and creates widespread inefficiency.
Reducing sub-Saharan Africa’s
dependence
on the IMF and the World Bank might bring that day closer.
Governments’ role will be different in countries like China, where officials will guide a shift from
dependence
on external sources of growth to more balanced demand.
But exchange rates do affect the pattern of growth, and it is in China’s own interest to restructure and move away from high
dependence
on export-led growth.
Cuba is the most dramatic case of dependence: Without subsidized Venezuelan petroleum and the enormous sums paid for the Castros’ doctors – some excellent, some fraudulent – the island’s economy would sink, causing a wave of Cubans to leave, as has occurred repeatedly over the past half-century.
Instead of serving as a source of stability, as it did in the past, this mutual
dependence
is driving Russia toward political and economic isolation – with serious consequences for ordinary Russians’ livelihoods.
The challenge facing Russians is to ensure that, when it does, they have broken their destructive
dependence
on belief in him.
The European Union’s feeble response to the warfare in Gaza and Lebanon has oscillated between understanding and condemnation of the disproportionate use of force by Israel (described as “ten eyes for one” by the Finnish presidency), thereby betraying its
dependence
on the US to end the violence.
Trump understands one thing well: Germany and the eurozone are at his mercy, owing to their increasing
dependence
on large net exports to the US and the rest of the world.
And this
dependence
has grown inexorably as a result of the austerity policies that were first tried out in Greece and then implemented in Italy and elsewhere.
And even extremely poor and politically illiberal Myanmar has reduced its
dependence
on China in response to active wooing by the US.
But this presupposes freeing the IMF from
dependence
on financial contributions from its regional stakeholders.
The most unattractive versions of 1930’s regionalism came from Germany and Japan, and represented nothing less than a practical extension of their power over vulnerable neighbors, which were forced into trade and financial
dependence
on the basis of Germany’s Grosswirtschaftsraum or its Japanese equivalent, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
This time, too, in the wake of Khashoggi’s disappearance, common interests and mutual
dependence
will almost certainly prevail over the desire to hold the Saudis to the standards expected of other close US allies.
Such is the outcome of globalization, i.e., the mutual
dependence
of 6.5 billion people in a single global economy and system of states.
Despite these supply-side threats, there have been few signs of an effective European Union-wide policy that would reduce
dependence
on Russian energy.
Russia has profited from Europe’s disarray by moving to cement greater long-term European
dependence
on its energy, particularly natural gas by continuing its divide-and-rule tactics toward European governments.
The EU’s political will to counter its increasing
dependence
on Russia in the immediate future is thus open to serious doubt.
But its $14 billion in annual bilateral trade, and
dependence
on Iranian oil – many of India’s refineries have been built to run solely on Iranian crude – are key strategic considerations.
The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin – for example, by reducing
dependence
on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of crude.
Nor does NATO membership help in responding to the Kremlin’s exploitation of European
dependence
on Russian energy, such as when it uses natural-gas supplies as a geopolitical weapon.
Given the regime’s
dependence
on the personalization of power, it would be hard to design any credible path for change that preserves the prerogatives of Putin and his cronies.
This
dependence
on the US for collective security does not make American allies exactly into colonies.
In Japan,
dependence
on the US, and anxiety about Communism, has marginalized the left and kept a conservative party more or less permanently in power.
In 1995, Cuba’s minister for heavy industry, referring to the country’s heavy economic
dependence
on the US until the 1959 revolution and heavy
dependence
on the Soviet Union until the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, vowed, “We will never let this happen to us a third time.”
First, David Ignatius of The Washington Post reported, on the basis of conversations with senior US officials, that agreement had already been reached on a number of steps Pakistan would take to reduce its
dependence
on nuclear weapons for deterrence.
The US believed that shifting Pakistani leaders’ attention from nuclear-weapons development to power-plant construction would, in addition to bolstering efforts to close the energy gap, limit Pakistan’s
dependence
on China for nuclear technology and reduce the risk of an immensely destructive war in South Asia.
Rising
dependence
on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea-lane safety and vulnerability to supply disruptions.
Last but not least, China certainly will make a bigger effort in indigenous innovation and creation to reduce its
dependence
on foreign technology, which has never been easy to obtain and will be increasingly difficult to secure.
Roughly 10% of people who smoke cannabis go on to develop dependence, which produces withdrawal symptoms when use is stopped, such as craving, irritability, sleep disturbances, abdominal pain, and nervousness.
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