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But a military coup in Bangladesh strained the bilateral relationship and stymied the deal.
Accordingly, calls for German leadership will disappear and its strained public finances will suppress requests for financial transfers.
Many feared mass unemployment, a tidal wave of bankruptcies, millions of families evicted from their homes, the social safety net strained to the breaking point, and perhaps even riots and a resurgence of the political extremism that brought Hitler to power in Germany during the depression of the 1930’s.
For Japan, this undermined the transmission of monetary easing in international financial markets – a mechanism that was already strained by risk-averse investors flocking to the Japanese yen as a safe-haven currency.
In fact, the EU has been struggling to tackle collectively the challenges it faces – in particular, the refugee crisis, which has already strained passport-free travel within the Schengen Area (one of the most visible, celebrated, and appreciated achievements of European integration).
Israel’s Ukraine DilemmaTEL AVIV – As if relations between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government and US President Barack Obama’s administration were not strained enough, Israel has refused to join the United States and its other allies in condemning Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Even if Congress decides to do nothing on this front, Trump’s anti-Iran rhetoric and other Republican initiatives in Congress have strained the JCPOA and left it vulnerable.
Demographic trends, shifting patterns of disease, and strained public funding are placing new burdens on health-care systems.
One possible explanation is that financially strained European governments lack the means to fulfill their citizens’ expectations.
The opioid epidemic, for example, has become a heavy burden for the US government (and thus taxpayers), as it has strained law enforcement and the health system.
And all of these “improvements” followed dozens of other changes, creating a maelstrom of bureaucracy that strained bandwidth and tested resolve.
Likewise, Turkey’s relationship with the European Union, which has been strained in recent years by the EU’s ambivalence about Turkey’s membership bid, could face new challenges.
The IMF needs to bring much more of this brand of skepticism to its assessment of eurozone debt dynamics, instead of constantly seeking strained assumptions that would make the debt appear sustainable.
In the meantime, Western welfare states will remain financially unviable, economically sickly, and politically strained.
A people’s tolerance for change and adaptation should not be strained beyond its limits, different though these will be in different countries.
But these countries’ education systems, which were strained even before the crisis, cannot handle the burden that they are being forced to shoulder.
At the same time, however, the migrants strained local governments’ capacity to provide adequate housing, health care, and education.
There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.
Turkey’s links with Israel, for example, have been strained by Israeli investment in Kurdistan.
Europe’s persistence in snubbing Turkey’s attempts to join the European Union, the rise of violent anti-Western popular sentiment in the wake of the Iraq war, and strained relations with the US – owing in part to the forthcoming Armenian Genocide Act – are major factors in Turkey’s change of direction.
The idea that the world’s largest economies are merely facing a short-term panic looks increasingly strained.
Indeed, strained by decades of governmental failure to curb massive unemployment, the French are nowadays often perceived as having retired from the political sphere to concentrate on their lives and leisure.
America cannot realistically expect its allies – let alone countries like Iran and Venezuela, with which its relations are strained – to adopt principled foreign policies when Middle East Realpolitik distorts its own foreign policy.
Even with inter-bank liquidity strained, the PBOC is refusing to lower the deposit reserve rate to release liquidity – in defiance of market expectations.
Until such changes occur, many challenges will fall through the cracks that exist between a strained Pax Americana and a rebalancing world.
But these buffers would be severely strained if the gathering storms converged into a single devastating gale.
Given how strained the bilateral relationship is – a situation long in the making – that was probably the best outcome that could reasonably be expected.
Private- and public-sector deleveraging in the advanced economies has barely begun, with balance sheets of households, banks and financial institutions, and local and central governments still strained.
President Barack Obama recently journeyed to Moscow in order to “reset” strained United States-Russian ties.
The European Union, though not in need of a “reset” because of strained ties with its eastern neighbors, is involved in a deep strategic reconstruction of those relations.
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