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What else can explain the treatment of Obama on his first trip to China and during the disastrous 2009 climate-change conference in Copenhagen, where a relatively minor Chinese official wagged his finger in the face of the US president?
Given that China is still a relatively poor country, with per capita GDP only about 25% of the level in the United States, maintaining such a rapid pace of growth certainly is not impossible.
In China, though clusters of vibrant smaller manufacturers are flourishing, policymakers have done relatively little to promote industrial development and upgrading.
The real heroes of the world economy – the role models that others should emulate – are countries that have done relatively well while running only small external imbalances.
What is astonishing about this “model” is that it has enabled China to maintain rapid growth within a relatively stable political environment for 30 years.
In his first incarnation as military head of state in the late 1970’s, he had a relatively free hand to shape the outcome of the 1979 elections.
Up to now, a focus on who has been appointed to what post – in particular, the appointment of the relatively inexperienced Federica Mogherini as EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy – has overshadowed the Commission’s structural transformation.
While the European Central Bank has also been buying government bonds since last spring, the amount is relatively small (€70 billion, compared to the Fed’s $600 billion program), and is meant only to support troubled eurozone members, with particular care taken to avoid any impact on money supply.
It is to be hoped that Iraq's conquest will be swift and relatively painless.
While it is possible to do this for diseases where the diagnosis is relatively unambiguous and there is only a single abnormal gene associated with the condition (Huntington’s disease is a good example), this is a far cry from saying that a specific gene causes you to be criminal or alcoholic.
The Weak Dollar's Impossible StrengthOnce upon a time, until 1997, America's current account deficit was relatively small--just 1% of GDP.
Although Beijing and Shanghai are relatively prosperous, there is still much poverty.
And, because the government debt is relatively low – about 17% of GDP – it would not be difficult for the government to absorb these losses.
The other exception is sociological, comprising a relatively thin but influential international intelligentsia, for whom secularization has become not only a fact, but, at least for some of its members, an ideological commitment.
These parties’ extremist tendencies and narrow platforms are limiting governments’ policy flexibility by driving relatively moderate parties and politicians to adopt more radical positions.
In China, only the educated and relatively privileged can take part in online discussion.
Advanced countries have been the biggest sources of carbon emissions until relatively recently.
Other economies are growing at relatively high rates, too.
But it’s not just in war-torn Syria and Yemen where youth are systematically neglected; shortcomings abound in relatively stable countries such as Egypt and Jordan.
Its financial markets’ high quality must be an important reason for America’s relatively strong economic growth.
With no forces of its own and a relatively tiny budget, the UN has only as much hard power as it can borrow from its member states.
And the regime does seem relatively stable, at least for now.
When Paquim was one of the last relatively unmuzzled press voices in Brazil, its cartoonists were arrested, and a live bomb was found in the magazine’s offices.
Mazowiecki backed Balcerowicz, and the success of economic reform underpinned Poland’s relatively smooth political transition.
Steel comprises a relatively homogeneous class of goods.
In particular, what makes the Nordic model so attractive is the modest and honest exercise of government power; near-equality between men and women; a low level of income inequality; and relatively humane treatment of immigrants.
He was, he now says, focusing on how fixed-rate mortgages are relatively bad deals for borrowers in times of low inflation, which was a mistake.
So, on balance, it seems that global inequality has been relatively stable during the last two decades.
The relatively tight labor market is causing wages to rise at an accelerating rate, because employers must pay more to attract and retain employees.
Why?Life expectancy in the US is relatively high, and neonatal and maternal mortality rates are relatively low.
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