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Instead, the world must focus on the second phase, because it is weapons potential that is the looming danger, and it is here that internationally mandated mechanisms for oversight and supervision exist.
Facing Down Secular Stagnation in ChinaHONG KONG – Secular stagnation is looming worldwide, and China is no exception.
In the case of AT&T, it was the looming threat of break-up or forced divestment that did the trick.
But that’s because Bush didn’t begin to address the issue that is looming ever larger in the region: the changing face of security in Asia in view of China’s growing economic and military might.
Indeed, there is a looming risk of secular stagnation in many advanced economies, owing to the adverse effect on productivity growth of years of underinvestment in human and physical capital.
The Death-Defying DollarBERKELEY – The blogosphere is abuzz with reports of the dollar’s looming demise.
According to Greenspan, immediate action needed to be taken to avert this looming disaster, which would impede the Fed’s ability to conduct monetary policy!
With a looming election in Germany, few wish to undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel’s likely victory.
With an election looming in Italy, the country’s technocratic interim administration will return the reins of power to a democratically elected government.
In light of looming deficits for America’s Social Security and Medicare programs, such changes in the tax code should ideally be revenue-neutral.
Western anxieties about a looming “Asian century” stem largely from the precedent of twentieth-century geopolitics, in which the West dominated less-developed nations.
Within Russia, historically, there are only two forces that would seek to stand against this looming political plague: the intelligentsia and the army.
And, with a self-inflicted fiscal cliff looming – one that could send our country back into recession, pulling the rest of the world with us – businesses are reluctant to hire and invest in new capital goods.
How long this boom in productivity growth will continue is anyone's guess: optimists point to the fact that waiting behind the information technology revolution, ready for takeoff, is the biotechnology revolution, and behind that is a looming nanotechnology revolution.
In fact, Europe’s financial crisis and its looming energy crisis can be tackled with one program: converting existing debt into renewable-energy concessions.
Moreover, China’s rulers are focused on the looming 17th Congress of the Communist Party, which could likewise be spoiled by a bloody confrontation in Burma.
There is even speculation that China was warned of the looming coup in Zimbabwe, if not consulted beforehand.
Indeed, the rise in life expectancy is seen as a major looming social and economic problem.
The data show no deceleration of progress, and there is no strong theoretical reason to suspect a looming natural limit to the extension of lifetimes.
Wherever you turn, somebody is being blamed for Copenhagen’s apparent looming failure.
Trump and Xi must find a way to defuse the looming crisis on the Korean Peninsula – or manage the consequences should diplomacy fail and war erupt.
Given America’s economic problems and looming defense cuts, as well as growing Chinese power, there is no longer even a remote possibility that this demand will be made.
A human rights defender, Gabriel Andreescu, compared the looming fate of the street dogs with the Holocaust and Gulag.
Americans are rightly focused on the “fiscal cliff” looming at the start of 2013, when, under current legislation, virtually all tax rates will rise, sucking more than 3% of GDP out of households and businesses.
It would be difficult for the US to change the highest priority of its own national security strategy--preempting terrorism and fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction--especially with another nuclear threat looming in Iran.
The first tests of his ability to recover are the looming regional elections across Russia.
With a general election looming in the months ahead, the air is already thick with political recrimination.
Ultimately, the key question looming over the summit is whether Xi will be able to offer enough to repair the damage done to Sino-US relations in recent years.
But, for all the talk of a looming banking crisis, the balance-of-payments crisis already underway in Italy since the first half of 2016 is the main factor driving the real-time poll of investors.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the political polarization in Washington is distressing, with another debt ceiling debacle looming.
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