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History is replete with examples of the Thucydides Trap, tensions between rising and established powers
escalate
into military conflict.
Rather than collaborating with Europe and Japan and strengthening the World Trade Organization to counter China’s mercantilism, he has decided to go it alone, attacking even his closest allies in what threatens to
escalate
into a full-blown trade war that will hurt everyone, not least American industry and consumers.
The result is a widening diplomatic clash with Russia, one that could
escalate
and lead – perhaps inadvertently – to the point of military conflict.
But what you should really worry about is what comes after: in the current social, political, and technological landscape, a prolonged economic crisis, combined with rising income inequality, could well
escalate
into a major global military conflict.
And if Trump continues to provoke China by communicating with Taiwan and questioning America’s “One China” policy, regional tensions will
escalate.
But the danger that any conflict could
escalate
into a nuclear confrontation prevented reckless and dangerous behavior on both sides on more than one occasion.
If tensions in Ukraine continue to escalate, Cameron, whose tenure so far has been characterized by weakness and hesitancy, will be forced to assert himself.
Yet China hopes to avoid precisely this outcome – which is a key reason why it has so far refused to
escalate
sanctions further.
And China has the ability to
escalate
the war beyond Asia.
Economists predict that strikes and unrest will
escalate
in Bangladesh, and also in Vietnam, with even investment bankers quoted by The Financial Times calling wages for women garment workers in these countries “unsustainably low.”
There is good reason to think that trouble will
escalate.
Everyone should see it; not only for its dramatization of the past, but for insights into current events, especially the controversy surrounding America’s plans to establish National Missile Defense and the various regional disputes – India and Pakistan, Taiwan and China, North and South Korea – that may one day
escalate
into nuclear conflict.
Muddling through as before would only
escalate
and prolong the crisis.
Israel, for its part, still reeling from the trauma of its ill-begotten war in Lebanon in 1982, chose not to respond to Hezbollah’s attacks and hoped that the attacks would not
escalate.
Despite lingering concerns about coexistence, societal attitudes “do not
escalate
into reactionary behavior except for very exceptional circumstances.”
This might be advantageous for Bush’s domestic purposes, but as a foreign policy, it will only
escalate
the risk of a Middle East explosion.
As the largest country of the 21st century, With the US now in Britain’s place, it should play a similar role by should similarly promotingte an open international economy and commons (seas, space, iInternet), mediateing international disputes before they escalate, and developing international rules and institutions.
Finally, there is a similar risk that Asia’s terrestrial and maritime territorial disagreements (starting with the disputes between China and Japan) could
escalate
into outright military conflict.
In all of his big diplomatic confrontations – over North Korea’s nuclear weapons, over the Mexican border wall, and over the revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement – Trump’s modus operandi has been to
escalate
aggressive rhetoric almost to the point of warfare and then suddenly negotiate a tactical retreat.
But right now it is in everyone’s interest to give China some space to adjust course and to reduce, rather than escalate, regional tensions.
And if politicians choose less-efficient, less-coordinated cap-and-trade policies, the costs could
escalate
a further 10 to 100 times.
But, even as tensions escalate, with no hope of Russia backing down, the world is not headed toward anything resembling a new Cold War.
And, like other hellish recent regional conflicts, such as those in Bosnia (to which Christopher was referring) and Rwanda, future historians will emphasize a crucial feature of the Syria conflict: the spectacular diplomatic failures that enabled it to
escalate.
The belief that terrorism cannot be eradicated assumes that the ability to tolerate terrorist attacks – to “ride out the storm” – is greater than the willingness of terrorists to persist, or even
escalate
the attacks.
Today, such an incident in the South China Sea, where China and several southeast Asian countries have competing territorial claims, would almost certainly lead to an armed clash – one that could quickly
escalate
into open war.
The result is too much pressure on healthcare resources, causing healthcare costs to
escalate.
But the danger is that the stakes are being raised so high that the smallest misstep could
escalate
into a conflict of unforeseeable dimensions.
At the next, he says that he would not think twice about Japan (and South Korea) becoming a nuclear-weapon state, feeding fears that today’s arms race in Asia might
escalate
beyond conventional weapons.
Such disputes, if they continue to escalate, will hurt people all over the world – not least US consumers, businesses, and workers.
A trade war requires other economies to retaliate and
escalate.
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