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As irksome as some of America’s actions have been, particularly over the past eight years, America remains the world’s most critical champion of the progressive values that have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty and political repression.
China’s Vicious Growth CircleLONDON – Most economists have a reason to be worried about China’s economy – whether it be low consumption and large external surpluses, industrial overcapacity, environmental degradation, or government interventions like capital controls or financial repression.
Meanwhile, financial repression lowered the cost of capital.
Wage suppression, financial repression, and an undervalued exchange rate subsidize exports and production, at the expense of households, which are thus compelled to save, weakening domestic demand.
In the face of popular frustration with worsening living conditions, Maduro’s government has relied on violent repression to put an end to street protests.
The US is gradually transferring resources from creditors to debtors through financial repression.
Egypt also has a powerful secret weapon that is yet to be fully deployed – a generation of young people who, after years of alienation and repression, believe that they can (and should) influence the country’s destiny.
The current radicalization of Hong Kong citizens, particularly its young people, reflects a desire to change that, and make China pay a price for reneging on its promise of “self-rule” and responding to dissent with repression.
Microsoft’s contribution to Chinese political repression follows Yahoo’s role in the sentencing of a dissident reporter and Google’s decision not to display search results that are blocked by what has become known as the “Great Chinese Firewall.”
Like Saddam, President Bashar al-Assad heads a secular regime that rules through brutal repression.
In Kenya, however, this model is being eroded by the flow of public funds into private media outlets in advertising and through increasing repression.
And yet, even during periods of government repression, savvy journalists have always found audiences for their dissenting views.
Trump and Tillerson, it seems, are fully willing to ignore the Kremlin’s repression of its opponents – not to mention its interference in America’s own democratic election, new evidence of which emerges almost daily – if it means avoiding uncomfortable conversations with Putin.
But the world will not be a better place if China’s newfound assertiveness is focused – or, just as importantly, is perceived to be focused – almost exclusively on helping autocrats to stay in power through brutal repression of their citizens.
One notable target of repression is Central European University, a bastion of open debate, teaching, and research in Hungary, which is funded by George Soros.
The fresh wave of anti-gay legislation in Nigeria and Uganda (according to Amnesty International, homosexuality is illegal in 38 of 54 African countries) follows the recent embrace of official repression of homosexuality elsewhere.
None of this repression was implemented with the primary intention of giving legal expression to organic mid-Victorian homophobia.
Political repression and press restrictions remain common in Belarus.
Every attempt to counter the regime’s brutality was met with repression, imprisonment, starvation, and forced exile.
More generally, China has made recent progress in boosting labor productivity, encouraging technological innovation, and improving service quality in key urban areas, despite severe financial repression and inadequate access to funding by small and medium-size private enterprises.
As for suspending human rights in the interests of development, authoritarianism promotes repression, not development.
Development is about change, but repression prevents change.
In the past, a growing gap between what the country’s governing elites delivered and the population’s legitimate aspirations would have been addressed by imposing further repression.
It includes developing the services sector, funding the social safety net, liberalizing an antiquated residential-permit system (hukou), reforming state-owned enterprises, and ending financial repression on households by lifting artificially low interest rates on savings.
Everywhere else, for whatever reason – misguided strategies, tactical mistakes, erroneous theories, US intervention, etc. – they faced only defeat, repression, and futility.
Given this, advanced-country policymakers should consider imposing some controls on their capital accounts (much as successful emerging economies do) – a move that would facilitate more independent and tailored approaches to exiting financial repression.
Indeed, this “financial repression” tax on domestic savers remains a huge opaque source of funding for India’s debt-ridden government.
This repression of liberal reformers passes unnoticed in the wider world, with America’s silence particularly noticeable.
In the light of the Halabja atrocity, and the regime’s broader genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and massive repression throughout the country, the question “Is Iraq better off now than it was under Saddam Hussein?” requires no great deliberation.
Negative real interest rates and quantitative easing have enforced financial repression on holders of cash, hurting savers, while broadly boosting prices of riskier financial assets, most commonly held by the rich.
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