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Indeed, China is now
locked
in a vicious economic circle, sustained by seemingly unrelated distortionary policies that are, in fact, deeply interconnected, even symbiotic.
But the damage done will extend far beyond the suffering of hundreds of innocent individuals who have been
locked
up under false pretenses.
Although active participation in global production networks has brought significant benefits, it may have
locked
China into the lower end of the value chain, reducing its scope for future progress.
Locked
in geopolitical competition, neither country would be willing to budge.
Before these two leaders irreversibly doom their two countries to spend the next decades
locked
in a devastating and avoidable conflict, they should carefully consider what that would mean not just for the US and China, but for the entire world.
World War I, of course, was partly set off by Germany’s concern that the other colonial powers had
locked
up too large a share of world oil and commodity supplies.
The country is
locked
in a stalemate with the international community, which wants it to denuclearize and become a “normal” country.
Two great peoples and countries, although now
locked
in a “strategic alliance,” may occasionally fall out of step with one another, as India and the US have – for example, over global climate negotiations.
In other words, we must acknowledge that two Islams are
locked
in a fight to the death, and that because the battlefield is the planet and the war threatens values that the West embraces, the fight is not solely the Muslims’ affair.
Like other aid recipients, Greece has become
locked
in a codependent relationship with its creditors, which are providing assistance in the form of de facto debt relief through subsidized loans and deferred interest payments.
And yet, as long as the country remains
locked
in a cycle of codependence with its creditors, the state of perpetual crisis is likely to persist.
In many countries, political dissidents (like the captives in “Fidelio”) are
locked
up – or worse – in defiance of the clear and open procedures that should ensure the rule of law.
China wants to shift its economic model away from manufacturing and toward services, where its many graduates could be gainfully employed; but it is currently
locked
into its position at the bottom of most global value chains.
Thus the two largest countries on the Arabian peninsula – Saudi Arabia, the biggest in terms of landmass and oil wealth, and Yemen in terms of population – are now
locked
in life-and-death struggles with internal enemies.
In the Muslim world, Daoud wrote, “Women are negated, rejected, killed, veiled,
locked
in, or owned,” their bodies denied the right to pleasure.
Without skills, people find themselves
locked
out of productive, rewarding economic activities, leaving them unable to meet their needs for housing, healthcare and nutrition.
But the specter of a bi-national state
locked
in a permanent civil war has so far prevented the relevant actors from fully giving up.
Locked
between China and Japan, the Korean Peninsula is, to use an old Korean saying, “a shrimp among whales,” and it has been subjected to untold horrors as a result.
This is notably true of the 1.5 million people crowded into the Gaza strip,
locked
between Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea.
It is too little for American advocates of missile defense, who fear being
locked
into a framework that will be overly confining.
Syria remains
locked
in a brutal civil war.
Before a lasting peace can be achieved, the US will need to reflect on the mistakes that characterized its post-Cold War period of hegemony, when its unilateral military adventures and neo-imperial ambitions left it overstretched, highly indebted, and
locked
in perpetual war.
Someone had to put aside moralistic objections and look dispassionately at a country
locked
in a set of circumstances that would only reproduce discord and fragmentation across the continent.
Today, it is my country that is
locked
in such circumstances and in need of hope.
Yet hundreds of millions of people find themselves
locked
out of these opportunities because they lack the necessary education and skills.
After four years of negotiations, Putin warned President Serzh Sargsyan that the price of Russian gas would be doubled, Russian security guarantees would be withdrawn (Armenia is
locked
in a bitter dispute with oil-rich Azerbaijan), and the large Armenian diaspora in Russia would no longer be as welcome to work and live in the country as before.
Locked
away in comfortable "confinement," Khrushchev privately berated himself for all he failed to accomplish.
Asia’s Hierarchies of HumiliationPHILADELPHIA – Indian and Chinese troops have been
locked
in a standoff in Doka La – where the borders of Bhutan, China and India meet – for almost a month now, the longest such impasse between the two armies since 1962.
In September, Armenia, which has been
locked
in a conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for more than two decades, suddenly halted its integration talks with the EU and announced its intention to join Russia-led structures.
There, the pampered chimpanzee – who, when asked to sort photos of humans and apes, put his own photo among the humans – was
locked
in a cage with other chimps.
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