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The tens of millions of students who remain in China would not gain the knowledge and skills needed to maintain, much less improve, the economy’s global competitiveness.
The “Americas-2” radical left is receding moderately, yet it can still maintain its positions and defeat any attempts to roll back its influence.
After initially believing that its economy was so strong that it would not only be unaffected by America's slowdown but also maintain robust growth, Europe has turned to looking to the US recovery to lift it out of its malaise.
When they can no longer count on US-supplied public goods to maintain peace and deliver prosperity, they will face some tough choices.
Other countries have already adopted a hedging strategy, whereby they maintain close security relations with the US while taking advantage of China’s enormous market.
Chinese diplomats now maintain closer relations with think tanks than their European counterparts do, and are praised for their constructive contribution to the public debate.
These rice exporters, including the US, also maintain stiff import duties, thereby protecting domestic farmers from global competition.
Even Korea and Japan maintain massive duties on imported rice simply to protect the livelihoods of their own rice farmers.
In the aftermath of the bilateral relationship’s ill-fated “reset,” Russia has been eager to maintain its global position as a foil to the US, causing many people on both sides to revert to a Cold War mentality.
This stance will be difficult to maintain, if continued robust job creation is accompanied by much-needed wage growth.
The second condition for broad-based currency depreciation is financial markets' willingness to assume and maintain risk postures that are not yet validated by the economy's fundamentals.
It was a startling image, illustrating how fear can overrun the commitments needed to maintain open societies and political freedoms even in Europe, the birthplace of modern citizenship.
However, in the Fed’s defense, low interest rates were needed to maintain the expansion.
Now the eurozone is demanding that Greece turn its 2015 primary deficit of 1% of GDP into a 3.5%-of-GDP surplus, and to maintain that fiscal stance for decades to come.
If pursued to the limit, such adjustments can make any debt affordable – after all, a perpetual non-interest-bearing debt imposes no burden at all – while still enabling politicians to maintain the fiction that no debt had been written off.
October’s Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Indonesia, focused on generating commitments and formulating measures to maintain ocean sustainability, including by cutting marine pollution.
In addition, Venezuela’s central bank has defaulted on its obligation to maintain price stability by nearly quadrupling the money supply in 24 months, which has resulted in a 90% decline in the bolivar’s value on the black market and the world’s highest inflation rate.
She did what any good – and, in her case, superb – diplomat should do: maintain relations with both sides and try to find a way forward.
With the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) keeping interest rates artificially low, retail depositors began taking advantage of higher rates of return offered by local governments, property developers, and SMEs, which needed funding to maintain investment and adjust to a new market environment.
This disruptive tendency reinforces the need for collaboration, underpinned by strong incentives for Iran to maintain a constructive, moderate foreign policy.
What motivates the opponents of free service provision and labor movement in Europe is not a desire to ensure social cohesion, but a wish to maintain the status quo.
Indeed, with Shiite-Sunni violence already intensifying, the Iraqi government may not be able to maintain even the appearance of effectiveness for very long.
With the need to maintain trust in the competitive, politically charged, and often unpredictable energy sector both greater than ever and more difficult than ever to meet, an international forum dedicated to addressing concerns and easing tensions could be a powerful tool.
That will not be enough to maintain sound public finances indefinitely.
Regulations should be kept to the minimum necessary to maintain stability.
All of this enables Venice to fund large public programs and maintain the world’s largest military, deepening its international clout as it leads the way in enforcing global trade rules and securing sea lanes.
During the three-decade-long Keynesian era, governments in the capitalist world managed and regulated their economies to maintain full employment and moderate business fluctuations.
History teaches that global economic order is difficult to establish and maintain in the absence of a dominant economic power.
This means that the Israeli military will continue to enter Gaza at will and maintain control over border crossings, airspace, and territorial waters.
This mixture of stimulating events and policies enabled Western economies to maintain high investment ratios in the post-WWII years.
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