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Vietnam’s interest in defense cooperation with Japan dovetails with the Abe administration’s goal of “normalizing” Japan’s defense posture, in order to reduce the country’s
dependence
on the United States.
To accomplish this however, the kingdom will have to dramatically reduce its unhealthy
dependence
on oil – a strategic goal that has been long discussed, but never implemented.
The technology writer and researcher Evgeny Morozov, among others, expects some degree of path dependence, with current discourses shaping our thinking about the future of technology, thereby influencing technology’s development.
Only China was left, and North Korea’s
dependence
on its northern neighbor is now almost total.
The current state of affairs remains the EU’s Achilles’ heel, because it implies
dependence
on imports from unstable, authoritarian regimes.
But as long as its
dependence
on foreign oil persists, the EU will remain far weaker than it needs to be.
Unfortunately, Europe’s
dependence
on foreign oil has been left out of the discussion.
Such sources are already helping to reduce
dependence
on coal and gas for electricity production.
New technologies like lithium batteries and hydrogen cars promise to free us from
dependence
on fossil fuels without separating us from our cars, but even the most remarkable breakthroughs cannot replace our automotive fleet anytime soon.
By the time something comes along to supplant the cars that we know – and something will, eventually –we may have had the chance to rethink our
dependence
on them.
When considered in this wider European context, there was more symmetry in the Russia-Ukraine energy relationship than the simple numbers on energy
dependence
implied at first glance.
Now, having lost Ukraine’s industrial and manufacturing base, and with Europe more determined than ever to reduce its
dependence
on Russian energy supplies, the Kremlin will need to turn eastward toward China, which will be happy to see Russia remain a resource economy in thrall to it.
But this
dependence
should not disguise the fact that there is a commonality of foreign policy interests between Europe and America.
They have a responsibility, in short, to fulfill the obligations that arise from our
dependence
on them and from the trust we place in them, implicitly or explicitly.
Europeans consumers' growing awareness of their rights and farmers' increasing fear of
dependence
on multinational companies are symptoms of a deeper concern about values and priorities: the type of environment we want, the role of biodiversity, our tolerance for risk, and the price we are prepared to pay for regulation.
The links now being developed in Myanmar will reduce China’s
dependence
on the Strait of Malacca by more than one-third.
Third, countries like Thailand that were running large external deficits, heightening their
dependence
on foreign finance, are now running surpluses.
But that tailwind may have been squandered, because the Kirchners have yet to make the structural changes – in industry, in the country’s energy policy, in education, and elsewhere – needed to free Argentina from extreme
dependence
on commodity prices.
For Eberstadt, the problem is that
dependence
on government is emasculating, and that too many people are dependent on government.
A larger domestic market encourages diversification of the national economy, reducing
dependence
on exports of natural resources and, in turn, exposure to global price fluctuations.
For countries closer to Russia’s sphere of influence, like Poland and Ukraine, this
dependence
becomes palpable.
The world’s
dependence
on Persian Gulf oil means that all countries have an interest in maintaining stability in that region, while improving energy efficiency and increasing the diversity of their overall energy supplies.
Combined with higher trade among them, the future of emerging economies is one of reduced
dependence
on industrial-country demand, though not a complete decoupling.
Another priority is to wean people from
dependence
on government.
It is a relationship founded largely on Chinese
dependence
on Russian energy supplies, mutual support for “spheres of influence” as the conceptual foundation of an alternative world order, and joint naval exercises in the Black Sea.
Only by exerting a harder budget constraint on the state sector, limiting fiscal expansion, and reducing
dependence
on government-led investment can China’s excessive currency issuance be addressed in the long term.
Given North Korea’s economic
dependence
on China – which accounts for some 90% of its trade nowadays – it is critical to take advantage of this policy convergence.
With respect to the last of these issues, the EU urgently needs to create a true energy union to reduce its
dependence
on outside, increasingly hostile countries, not least Russia.
Unfortunately, with a large export sector that employs scores of millions of workers, this
dependence
has become structural, which implies that to reduce China’s trade dependency and trade surplus is much more than a matter of adjusting macroeconomic policy.
Continued retaliation from China of the sort Lou has proposed would accelerate the country’s economic decoupling from the US, with both countries creating safeguards that reduce their
dependence
on each other.
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