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And when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Israel feared an Iraqi victory and actively helped Iran by selling it arms and providing it with spare parts for Iran's American weaponry at a moment when Iran was very vulnerable because of an American arms
embargo
that Israel was more than happy to violate.
In 1973, with the oil
embargo
and the closing of the gold window, that was the end of America.
But this cheerleading is not the case where Europe's economic interests are at stake: it is enough to look at the EU's refusal to join the
embargo
against Cuba, the strength of Germany's reaction to the merger of America's two airplane manufacturers Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas, or the determination with which the EU fifteen are pushing forward with monetary union.
When the European Union last year considered lifting its symbolic arms
embargo
against China, none of the governments driving the proposal bothered to consider that this, too, would be symbolic, sending a message all over Asia that Europe was putting its political weight behind Chinese regional policies.
Oil prices quadrupled following the first oil
embargo
in 1973, and the discovery of large reserves in the 1970s underpinned a massive increase in Soviet output.
For example, Cuba has a significant biotechnology industry: it developed the only effective meningitis B vaccine (which, despite the embargo, is imported into the US); and in 1998 it produced 30 tons of transgenic tilapia fish.
This one faces a trade
embargo
in the world’s largest market, receives neither foreign aid nor any other kind of assistance from the West, is excluded from international organizations like the WTO, and is prevented from borrowing from the IMF and the World Bank.
By contrast, America maintained a trade
embargo
against Vietnam until 1994, established diplomatic relations only in 1995, and did not provide most-favored nation treatment to Vietnamese imports for years after that.
The EU should decisively back the end of the
embargo
on Palestine and the urgent creation of a Palestinian state.
Four factors have made the oil
embargo
particularly unbearable today.
Meanwhile, budget imbalances remain, and have been aggravated by the current oil
embargo.
Cuban Time TravelHAVANA – For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel
embargo
that the US maintains against Cuba.
If the US did not exist, or if the
embargo
did not exist, Cubans could do likewise: infer that something is fundamentally wrong with an economic system that involves so much time wasted and so many simple desires frustrated.
But, for many Cubans, the
embargo
has placed an alternative explanation at hand: Absent the embargo, many goods would be imported from the US, or produced at home with US inputs.
Therefore, it must be the US and its
embargo
that is to blame for Cuba’s dysfunctional economy.
The lesson is clear: the US should end its obsolete
embargo.
For its own self-protection, Saudi Arabia will have to ensure that its
embargo
on Iranian military assistance to the Houthis in Yemen remains in place.
By beginning to normalize relations, Cuba and the United States have snatched victory from the jaws of a double defeat: the failure of the
embargo
and the failure of the Cuban economy.
For those in the United States who have rightly concluded that the half-century trade
embargo
has proved counter-productive, this is an appealing halfway response that provides an alibi for moderation: one day, economic reforms will bring political change.
But this may not be enough, given that Russia’s recently introduced “counter-sanctions” – an
embargo
of food imports from the EU and the US – will contribute significantly to price growth.
Those jobs disappeared in the 1990’s, when the US imposed a trade
embargo
on Haiti as part of an effort to re-establish democracy.
But none of them proposed a better solution, except to hope that United States-led individual sanctions or an oil
embargo
might do the trick.
Since then, the Trump administration has unilaterally imposed an
embargo
on goods deliveries to Iran from any third country, including the other signatories of the agreement.
By the decade’s end, after an Arab oil
embargo
and the Iranian Revolution, domestic production was in decline, Americans were importing half their petroleum needs at 15 times the price, and it was widely believed that the country was running out of natural gas.
In 2010, China exploited its monopoly on the global production of vital rare-earth minerals to inflict commercial pain on Japan and the West through an unannounced export
embargo.
Despite this rosy picture, China could be the cause of a major transatlantic row if Europeans make good on their intention to lift the arms export
embargo
in place since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.
The Bush administration is fiercely opposed to lifting the embargo, pointing out that in the event of a military clash over Taiwan, US troops would face weapons provided to China by America’s own allies.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a full arms
embargo
of Zimbabwe, a position clearly targeted at the Chinese.
Such contracts were in flagrant violation of the arms
embargo
instituted under UN Security Council Resolution 1970, which China approved.
The divisions are no less marked in another transatlantic quarrel, this one over whether to lift the European Union’s
embargo
on arms exports to China, imposed following the Tiananmen Square massacre 15 years ago.
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