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For Eberstadt, the problem is that dependence on government is emasculating, and that too many people are
dependent
on government.
In fact, it would be a tough sell for any candidate to convince Americans who receive government benefits that they are
dependent
rather than empowered; that it is bad for people to vote for politicians who make their lives better; and that good public policy seeks to create human catastrophe rather than to avert it.
The capital account is less open, foreign-currency reserves of $2.5 trillion mean that the exchange rate is controllable, and, with savings exceeding investment (the current-account surplus is declining but still positive), China is not
dependent
on foreign capital.
Thus, it is not a good idea to run persistent current-account deficits and become
dependent
on (temporarily) low-cost foreign capital.
Our lives, and those of all other creatures on this planet, are both part of and
dependent
on biodiversity.
In fact, Trump has given China an enviable choice: it can use its leverage with North Korea as a bargaining chip in ongoing trade negotiations with the US, or it can restore trade and other economic relations with North Korea to remind Kim that he is wholly
dependent
on China.
Second, the disastrous US-led war in Iraq has led Iran’s leaders to conclude that the leading Western power has been weakened to the point that it is
dependent
on Iran’s goodwill, and that high oil prices have made the West all the more wary of a serious confrontation.
Likewise, it is often argued that the green economy will increase energy security, as green resources will leave countries less
dependent
on fossil-fuel imports.
But even much higher supplies of wind power would improve security only marginally, because the UK would still have to import just as much oil (wind replaces mostly coal, rarely oil) and much of its gas, leaving it
dependent
on Russia.
Not long ago, the Baltic Sea region was almost completely
dependent
on fossil fuels from particular suppliers.
China, however, is utterly
dependent
on these sea-lanes, because its economic-growth model relies on southern China’s export-oriented manufacturing industries, as well as the ports of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou.
Berlusconi's right-wing coalition is
dependent
on support from the right-wing, xenophobic Northern Alliance and post-fascist National Alliance parties; so some Euro-sceptic rhetoric is to be expected.
On the regional front, Obama hoped that an opening with Myanmar would ensure that the country did not become wholly
dependent
on China, while enabling the US to deepen its relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Yet Pakistan, with one of the world’s lowest tax-to-GDP ratios, has become more
dependent
than ever on US aid.
Mogae managed to hold down inflation and attract foreign investment in order to diversify Botswana’s economy and make it less
dependent
on the extraction of diamonds, while simultaneously ensuring that more of the country’s mineral wealth was processed at home.
So, despite the rise in the household saving rate, unless federal government policies change to shrink America’s future budget deficits, the US will continue to be
dependent
on capital inflows from the rest of the world.
And, as GDP growth has become increasingly
dependent
on government-led investment, currency demand has continued to rise.
With his country so totally – indeed, embarrassingly –
dependent
on oil and gas revenues, he is hardly likely to want to spark a big push towards energy conservation.
But Argentina remains overly
dependent
on commodities, and has failed to encourage economic activity based on its peoples’ culture and ingenuity.
Likewise, with tens of thousands of street children entirely
dependent
for food on what they could scavenge or steal, the later Victorians established systems of orphanages.
Even so, the EU remains
dependent
on France and Germany as a driving force.
This approach makes sense if one is selling habit-forming goods, because you can raise prices and make up for earlier losses once the customer has become
dependent
on the product.
That day may be approaching, but, in the meantime, there are worrisome signs that China’s trade and investments in North Korea, the latest of which is a Chinese supermarket in which local currency can be traded at free-market (that is, black-market) rates, could oddly make China
dependent
on the North.
This has come at the expense of sectors that are more
dependent
on equity financing.
The better and fairer position, however, is to embrace the vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and promote unambiguously the idea that human dignity requires respect for the equally vital and mutually
dependent
freedoms from fear and want.
Whereas Japan and South Korea focused on industrialization, China has urbanization as an overt objective, and its system of financing local government – with cities
dependent
on land sales to cover their budgets – has intensified the bias toward real-estate development.
Since nearly all schools are
dependent
on government subsidies, the grant of flexibility is widely perceived to be a tactical delay.
The US was regarded as increasingly
dependent
on energy imports, and this, together with rising prices, was seen as a major limit on American geopolitical influence.
Banning the burqa would force this tiny minority of women to stay at home, and be even more
dependent
on their men to deal with the outside world.
RMB appreciation should have started earlier and at a faster pace, when China’s trade surplus was much smaller and its growth was much less
dependent
on exports.
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