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But this time, the threat is real: during Trump’s watch, North Korea could very well obtain the means to strike the United States with a weapon of mass destruction.
For example, will major trade concessions from China really do more to advance US interests than nullifying the North Korean threat?
One can only hope that it will focus on the North Korean nuclear threat, which is very real – and could become acute sooner than anyone expects.
If, based on these considerations, one concludes that China’s debt/GDP ratio does constitute a substantial threat to its financial stability, there remains the question of whether a crisis is likely to occur.
A more salient threat would arise if the government pursued too much capital-account liberalization too fast.
After the period of rapid economic growth ended, Europe’s leaders came to rely, instead, on the threat of an evil that is greater than austerity: further destabilization of debtor countries, leading to default, expulsion from the eurozone, and economic, social, and political collapse.
The Changing Climate On Climate ChangeThe message, it seems, has finally gotten through: global warming represents a serious threat to our planet.
At the same time, in order to maintain a security framework fit to confront any conceivable security threat, Europe’s governments should preserve the entire spectrum of their naval assets.
Another aspect of America’s domestic practice of liberal democracy that is currently being debated is how the country deals with the threat of terrorism.
The threat remains with us, and it is important to remember that people in democracies want both liberty and security.
After several days of silence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the launch, China’s leaders reluctantly admitted what China had done, but claimed that the “test was not directed at any country and does not constitute a threat to any country.”
In the United States, white people increasingly view the prospect that they will become a minority – a milestone expected to be reached in 2045 – as an existential threat, and often act as if they are a disadvantaged group.
But if Macron qualifies for the second round, he will pose a greater threat to Le Pen than an outright left-wing candidate would.
But the scientific enterprise is under threat from both external and internal forces.
This has induced market players to take on the wrong types of risk, leaving them poorly prepared for adverse changes in the economy and posing a broader threat to long-term financial stability.
Second, economic hardship and the threat of further isolation could compel Iran’s leaders to modify fundamentally their domestic and international policies.
The threat of death is a powerful weapon.
To have to deliver on that threat is always a defeat.
Even if leaders balk at an extra half-day of meetings to address the most serious threat to NATO’s future, the Riga summit can issue a demand that its own 19 dual members, and the rest of the EU, agree to assume shared responsibility in Afghanistan.
Last month, US President Barack Obama, in setting out his broader foreign-policy stance, spoke of Syria’s three evils – brutal military tactics, the terrorist threat from the opposition, and the need to support refugees.
World leaders must be made to recognize the dual threat of TB and diabetes – and make it a high policymaking priority – before it is too late.
None of this should be taken as an end to the “Brexit” threat.
Donald Trump’s presidency, the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, and the electoral rise of other populists in Europe have underscored the threat posed by “illiberal democracy” – a kind of authoritarian politics featuring popular elections but little respect for the rule of law or the rights of minorities.
But fewer analysts have noted that illiberal democracy – or populism – is not the only political threat.
As we rue liberal’s democracy’s crisis, let us not forget that illiberalism is not the only threat that confronts it.
This land grab, which is occurring mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, constitutes a major threat to the future food security of the populations concerned.
But, while a diversified economy presupposes more space for private enterprise, governments in the region, especially during boom times, have tended to favor politically connected firms, and blocked those they view as a threat.
Poland and Czechoslovakia reacted differently to the Nazi threat not because their interests were different, but because their people were different.
Today, the threat of terrorist attack causes people to re-examine human rights and legal standards.
The perceived threat posed by the Islamic State has also caused the US to drop ousting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s main regional ally, from its agenda.
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