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But trade patterns have changed so much since the 1980s, particularly owing to the emergence of regional and global supply chains, that the very notion of a bilateral trade imbalance – one of the main sticking points for Trump – seems outdated.
Meanwhile, there has been little change in the US trade imbalance, indicating that America’s massive deficit is not China’s fault at all.
Both monetary and fiscal policies facilitated growth, but Europe did not help much to redress America's external imbalance.
Financial and economic imbalance can lead to dangerous fiscal imbalance, as tax revenues plunge and social insurance and bailout expenditures rise.
Extreme fiscal imbalance can also lead to a growth trap in which fiscal consolidation has such a large negative effect on growth as to be self-defeating.
If systemic risk can cause this kind of cascading sequential imbalance, then the “sovereign” needs to be alert, competent at identifying rising systemic risk, and able to take corrective action early.
Such a tax would not have prevented the US-China trade imbalance.
Where there is an imbalance between economic growth and social progress, political instability and unrest often arise, as in Russia and Egypt.
The most powerful impediment to growth and recovery is not this or that economic imbalance; it is a loss of confidence in the systems that made rising global interdependence possible.
Nor does it matter when we point out that correcting for supply-chain distortions – caused by inputs from other countries that enter into Chinese assembly platforms – would reduce the bilateral US-China trade imbalance by 35-40%.
US negotiators are fixated on targeted reductions of around $200 billion in the bilateral trade imbalance over a two-year time frame.
Chinese negotiators are more circumspect, resisting numerical deficit targets but committing to the joint objective of “effective measures to substantially reduce” the bilateral imbalance with the US.
Since 2000, the largest annual reduction in the US-China merchandise trade imbalance amounted to $41 billion, and that occurred in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession.
The Trump deal would shift the Chinese piece of America’s multilateral imbalance to higher-cost imports from elsewhere – the functional equivalent of a tax hike on American families.
China’s large external surplus – above 10% of GDP in 2007 – has narrowed significantly in recent years, with the trade imbalance falling to about 2.5% of GDP.
With external surpluses also rising in other countries of the eurozone core, the monetary union’s overall imbalance is large and growing.
If no deal is reached, the same imbalance will emerge, only the costs to the UK will be even larger – a reality that British Prime Minister Theresa May, declaring that the UK will walk away from negotiations that don’t go its way, refuses to recognize.
That gross imbalance in representation is a shameful betrayal of Ukraine's sovereignty.
Despite the obvious imbalance with the US in terms of modern armaments, it would be shortsighted to ignore China's own formidable military hardware.
The second complication stems from the structural imbalance between the banking sector (or the debt market) and the stock market.
Changes to correct the imbalance between presidential and parliamentary power are, indeed, needed.
In November, US President Barack Obama can begin to redress this imbalance when he hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in his native state of Hawaii.
China’s willingness to throw its weight around amplifies the grave imbalance in size, and leverage, between it and the other countries bordering the South China Sea.
Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems for both the scientific community in developing countries and for development itself.
But this approach is misguided; the exchange rate is just one factor causing the trade imbalance, and any appreciation of the renminbi is unlikely to alter the status quo in a multipolar world.
The US-China trade imbalance stems from structural flaws.
The US obsession with renminbi appreciation as the silver bullet for the bilateral trade imbalance has merely diverted attention from addressing its real causes.
But the disappearance underscores the ongoing imbalance between economic and political reform.
This imbalance means that producers of most goods and services are outside the West, but rely on Western consumers to absorb their output.
This imbalance is reflected in the content newsrooms produce, with fewer written words and broadcast seconds dedicated to telling women’s stories.
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