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How to Lose a Trade WarNEW HAVEN – Protectionist from the start, US President Donald Trump’s administration has now moved from rhetoric to action in its avowed campaign to defend US workers from what Trump calls the “carnage” of “terrible trade deals.”
And the unrest of the children and grandchildren of Algerian, West African, and Moroccan immigrants in the French banlieues attest to France’s failure to assimilate its immigrant population, despite the Republic’s official egalitarian rhetoric.
In fact, Putin has nothing to offer Russians aside from his own vulgar, hackneyed rhetoric.
Trump has also abandoned his base in the area of trade, where he has offered rhetoric but not concrete action.
Likewise, despite Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on immigration, his policies have been relatively moderate, perhaps because many of the businesspeople who supported his campaign actually favor a milder approach.
But if gassy rhetoric alone does not suffice, he may decide to go on the offensive, particularly in the international sphere.
But, given that the sincerity of China’s “one country, two systems” rhetoric remained dubious, I could offer only the affirmation that all would be well if China’s government kept its promises.
But China’s ability to persuade others that its international behavior stems from its search for balance will depend on its leaders’ ability to embrace the rule of law – in substance rather than just in rhetoric – as a fundamental basis for the harmony that they publicly espouse.
One thing we know about the North Koreans is that, unless they can use such rhetoric in their own propaganda (they got far more traction out of former US President George W. Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” remark than he ever did), they simply don’t care what is said about them.
But the rhetoric from the White House and the Treasury Department is “we have ended TBTF” with financial reform legislation currently before Congress and likely to be signed by Obama within a month.
One lesson is the crucial importance of using scientifically rigorous investigation of new programs – rather than populist rhetoric, religious moralizing, and urban myth – to guide policymaking.
Perhaps the new data will cool the heated rhetoric about undervaluation and currency manipulation, and instead generate a substantive discussion about exchange-rate flexibility and its benefits for China and the world.
True, fiscal retrenchment in Germany is more cautious than official rhetoric suggests.
For this reason, when and if a serious dialogue commences, the spoilers will likely attempt to torpedo it by issuing belligerent rhetoric, targeting US soldiers and interests in Iraq or Afghanistan, or seeing to it that an arms shipment originating from Iran is “discovered” en route to south Lebanon or Gaza.
Notwithstanding political rhetoric, a “bad deal” is actually better for the UK than no deal at all.
And, with public opinion polls revealing that a significant minority of Europeans are falling in line with Putin's rhetoric, his strategy of dividing the EU and NATO seems to be making real headway.
Despite their nationalist rhetoric, when the economic winds blow against them, it can be hard to change direction.
Euro-skepticism is now at an all-time high in Turkey, fueled by some European political leaders’ rhetoric opposing Turkey’s accession, and by the EU’s own failure to dispel doubts about the feasibility of Turkey’s eventual membership.
But, contrary to populist rhetoric, it is not just rich, well-connected bondholders who get bailed out.
And, as a banker-turned-reformist economy minister under Hollande, Macron is an ideal target for Le Pen’s anti-elitist, anti-European rhetoric.
By leaving the rhetoric of "community" only to the extremes of right and left, by abandoning it to people with nothing positive to say, people who loath all aspects of liberal individualism, both liberalism and democracy are placed at risk.
It is questionable, though, how credible European heads of government are who promote such pan-European multiculturalism and at the same time emphatically denounce alleged “multiculturalist” illusions at home – as has by now become standard political rhetoric in almost all countries.
The Brussels elites are not likely to admit this fact without further ado: their rhetoric still oscillates between doom-and-gloom pessimism and a kind of pro-European PR that is concerned only with how best to “sell” the Union to Europe’s citizens.
With such rhetoric from their candidates, it is no wonder that, according to a recent poll, some 30% of Republican voters (and 41% of Trump supporters) favored bombing Agrabah, the central (and fictional) location of the Disney film Aladdin.
One way to read such bellicose rhetoric is to assume that those who indulge in it must be bloodthirsty monsters.
Iran’s leaders should begin by shunning hostile rhetoric.
At the same time, the Turkish government’s rhetoric also changed.
Think of the rhetoric of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, or of the founding fathers of the European Community.
While the rhetoric of commitment to the round remains, in practice there has been a surrender to defensive lobbies clinging to the status quo.
It took another, far more limited disaster to revive lofty rhetoric about the liberating effects of US military power.
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