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As Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning in the US State Department, argues, “the power that flows from this type of connectivity is not the power to
impose
outcomes.
But if countries still want the option of referenda, they should
impose
formal rules that help to ensure that politicians cannot use them to dodge difficult decisions.
Such proposed solutions assume that regulators will be able to identify excess risks, prevent banks from manipulating the regulations, resist political pressure to leave the banks alone, and
impose
controversial corrective measures “that will be too complicated to defend in public.”
At the same time, governments could
impose
financial penalties on those who refuse to contribute – particularly those who do not even remotely qualify as “elderly.”
Moreover, Trump’s decision to
impose
tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, while not targeted specifically at Russia, will cost the Russian economy upwards of $3 billion next year.
Though it clearly lacks the power to
impose
its values by force, the US certainly has the power to unsettle established conditions, both through the attraction of its “soft power” (the American way of life) and by the exemplary use of force.
Because so many businesses make money from the rents created by the rationing of foreign exchange, rather than by creating value, it is easy to believe that markets do not work, that entrepreneurs are speculators, and that governments need to control them and
impose
“fair” prices.
Europe does not have an uncontested leader to
impose
policy preferences on everyone else.
During the campaign, Trump threatened to retaliate against China for “raping” America on trade, to
impose
massive tariffs on Chinese imports, and to label China a currency manipulator on “day one.”
It is ironic that China, which has quietly waged a trade war for years, has responded to Trump’s threats to
impose
punitive tariffs by warning – notably, at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos – of the risks of protectionism and trade wars.
Returning to national governments rule-making powers that could be used to
impose
criteria aimed at excluding others would endanger the entire market.
A bill currently progressing through the US Congress would
impose
sanctions on Nicaragua if Ortega does not move to restore democratic freedoms and stem corruption.
To allow self-appointed arbiters of Indian culture to
impose
their hypocrisy and double standards on the rest of us is to permit them to define Indianness down until it ceases to be Indian.
And anti-EU sentiment is too widespread and too deep to hand more power to unelected EU officials and
impose
additional constraints on national decision-making without poisoning the pot further.
Russia’s reversal on the Afghan Taliban reflects a larger strategy linked to its clash with the US and its European allies – a clash that has intensified considerably since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea spurred the US and Europe to
impose
heavy economic sanctions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to
impose
significant costs on the US for its decision to maintain military bases in Afghanistan to project power in Central and Southwest Asia.
This large and enduring effect has surprised many, since the “story” about the Chinese drop – that the trigger was a rumor that China’s government, concerned about speculation, planned to
impose
controls on the stock market – seems to have no logical relevance elsewhere.
A better approach is to view computer security as an issue of public health and economics, in which people can protect themselves but must pay for the costs they
impose
on others.
In all cases, adventurous users or professionals can overcome the paternalism, but only by paying what amounts to liability insurance, for the risks they
impose
on the system.
A radical populist Trump would scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and
impose
high tariffs on Chinese imports.
Conversely, the US must be prepared to lead international efforts to
impose
severe consequences on any party that plunges the country back into war.
He is apparently more interested in making money than pushing back against, say, the network’s propagation of incendiary claims about Muslims, including that they are trying to
impose
Sharia law on the US.
Perhaps Antonis Samaras’s center-right government from 2012 to 2015 came closest to succeeding, but it could not survive, politically, the severe austerity that it was being forced to
impose.
America, Britain, and France were incredibly stupid in the 1920s to
impose
excessive reparations payments on Germany after World War I.
Witness Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to South Korea, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s unwillingness to
impose
effective sanctions on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine, and the business-only focus of her just-concluded visit to China.
We should also reject monetary straitjackets -- like currency boards and fixed exchange rates -- which
impose
the gold-standard.
In fact, Chinese and other Asians frequently criticize the West for using human rights as an excuse to
impose
“Western values” on former colonial subjects.
That happened in the October 2006 anti-dumping action against leather shoes, when the EU decided to
impose
anti-dumping tariffs against China and Vietnam.
NME status made it a lot easier for importing countries to
impose
special tariffs on Chinese exports, in the form of antidumping duties.
Putin has allowed the “systemic liberals” in his administration to
impose
hard budget constraints even on the large state companies.
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