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When we recall the Cold War, it is important to remember that America's strategy of containment combined the deterrent of its hard military power with the attractiveness of its soft cultural power, which eroded confidence and belief in Communism behind the Iron Curtain.
The technical lead held by Europe’s traditional trading economies is being eroded, while wage competition is encouraging fears of deflation.
The whole notion of democracy has been eroded and discredited, with the radicalization that engulfs many Muslim societies now spilling over into their emigrant communities in the West.
Now, however, with China rising, global power rebalancing, and the US worn down by two decade-long wars that have eroded its credibility, the postwar international order is under intense strain.
We are now back to the more usual situation where war is financed by government debt, which burdens future generations unless it is eroded by inflation.
These challenges must be addressed through stronger governance at all levels, particularly given that state authority has been badly eroded in roughly a quarter of the country, where complex factors have created distrust in the name of ethnicity, politics, and religion, resulting in a massive breakdown in law and order.
On July 1, 2003, the sixth anniversary of the handover, nearly a million people took to Hong Kong’s streets in a peaceful protest against an anti-subversion bill that would have eroded freedom of the press, of religion, and of association.
Although information is still widely available on Facebook and other international sites, public trust in the government has been seriously eroded.
The real strength of the US is not its military power but its soft power, which has been badly eroded not just by Trump, but also by persistent racial discrimination.
As the statistical manipulation that attends uncertainty increases, confidence is eroded.
Either way, at a time when we need serious investigative journalism and intelligent analysis of economic trends and business activities more than ever, the capacity to deliver them is rapidly being eroded.
Japan seized its opportunity in the years following World War II, using labor-intensive industries, such as textiles and simple electronics, to drive its economy until rising labor costs eroded its comparative advantage in those sectors.
When cost-cutting efforts produce drinking water that fails to meet basic health standards, “government for the people” has been seriously eroded.
Specifically, the skills and morale of the long-term unemployed have been eroded.
Similar results occur when family benefits are eroded, as they have been.
Trump needs a favorable outcome to compensate for a series of domestic political failures that have severely eroded his political capital and sent his approval ratings to record lows.
Reliance on coal and oil has made China the world’s largest source of carbon emissions, and has eroded the quality of life for Chinese citizens.
The problem is that the old European parties’ intellectual and moral foundations have rapidly eroded in recent years, owing partly to their failure – or inability – to adapt to EU-level systems.
The political will to keep the process moving forward has eroded.
In the US, in particular, the ability of labor to protect its share of national income, and of lower- and middle-income households to protect their share of the wage pool, eroded substantially.
Moreover, the distinctiveness of local cultures may be eroded, which has both a good and a bad side, for such cultures can restrict freedom and deny equality of opportunity.
Unfortunately, meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism.
This has eroded European solidarity.
The fact that those high standards are now being systematically eroded has introduced a paradox for the EU.
Swedish competitiveness eroded and income growth slowed to a crawl.
First, the rise of an Arab political class that is more influenced by religion than by secular nationalism has eroded the main structural barrier to Turkish engagement.
The institutional foundations of stable long-run fiscal policy are being eroded.
And the post-war social-democratic welfare state is being eroded more and more every day.
Doors that were once open to them have been shut, and their faith in public institutions to represent their interests has significantly eroded.
But its diplomatic cognitive dissonance – criticizing the Egyptian regime while continuing to supply it with military hardware – can serve only to undermine bilateral relations, just as the same American approach to Musharraf’s regime thoroughly eroded US-Pakistani ties.
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