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And the recent findings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have shown that the
threat
from global warming, owing to reliance on fossil fuels, is even more urgent than previously known.
For example, a permanent settlement of claims concerning the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands would go a long way toward convincing Japan that China does not pose a serious
threat.
Nevertheless, though the Chinese government seeks to demonstrate that the Uyghur are a growing domestic threat, they have been unable to cite any recent incidents of domestic Uyghur-related violence.
The
threat
to the globalization process may not be immediately apparent, but it is very real.
The
threat
of a large stick is the only language that the natives understand.
But political disarray is far from the only potential
threat
to Trump’s economic success.
Finally, a series of Western mistakes and misfortunes, a crisis in transatlantic relations, lack of leadership, and the growing
threat
of Islamic fundamentalism (in both the Middle East and Europe) have led Russian leaders to believe that the West is a sinking ship, to be abandoned as soon as possible.
Ukraine does, indeed, present a threat, but not to Russia’s security, as Kremlin propagandists claim.
The real
threat
is to the Putin model of a corporate, authoritarian state, unfriendly to the West.
Downward mobility is a real threat, while upward mobility is limited.
But Nato, while it remains important for practical military cooperation among its members and as strategic reassurance against any major outside threat, inevitably is becoming less central to American as well as European concerns since such major threats are simply not on the horizon.
Obama has sought, with some success, to marshal a multinational coalition to confront the Islamic State; most important, he has induced cooperation from countries in the region that, afraid to speak and act clearly, had hoped that putting their heads in the sand would make the
threat
go away.
Can this vicious circle - which is not just a theoretical
threat
but an unfortunate reality in many countries - be broken?
There is no doubt that income inequality is the single biggest
threat
to social stability around the world, whether it is in the United States, the European periphery, or China.
While Morsi denounced the recent violence (particularly the deliberate killing of Egyptian policemen) and issued an implicit
threat
against Hamas, the Brotherhood published a statement accusing Israel’s Mossad of perpetrating the attack – a claim that Hamas’s Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh, has repeated.
That sort of volte-face would be impossible for most of the Brexit camp, for whom the dream of sovereignty trumps the
threat
of economic collapse.
To the extent that it may be threatened, the appropriate body for dealing with that
threat
is the European Union (EU).
But there will be many warning signs of the return of the old Russia, and thus ample time to meet the
threat.
First, whatever the brutal style of the new Russia under Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, the Soviet Union no longer exists and no longer constitutes the common
threat
that was the “glue” of the Alliance until 1989.
Two final factors include how soon the eurozone economy bottoms out (there have been some recent signs of stabilization, but the monetary union’s chronic problems remain unresolved), and whether Middle East tensions and the
threat
of nuclear proliferation in the region – and responses to that
threat
by the US and Israel – escalate or are successfully contained.
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Most significant, it failed to address an increasingly corrosive trust deficit that poses the most serious
threat
to Sino-American relations in 25 years.
Chinese officials see little difference between the cyber
threat
posed by the NSA and that posed by the PLA, especially given that America’s cyber intrusions have also been aimed at foreign companies, trade negotiators, and international leaders – all of whom are directly or indirectly engaged in commercial activity.
Vital issues are at stake: the scramble for oil;China’s robust presence in Sudan; the West’s desire to see a mostly Christian state break the contiguity of Muslim regimes – and the consequent
threat
of Islamic radicalism – in the region; the regional distribution of the Nile’s waters; and the possibility that independence for the South might lead to Sudan’s total dismemberment along ethnic and religious lines.
To recover the confidence of the international business community and the world’s mining giants, who were enraged in recent years by forced renegotiations of existing deals by governments in Congo, Mongolia and Guinea, Camara was also wise to retreat from his
threat
to renegotiate existing mining concessions.
The area’s volatile situation provides Pakistan’s government an additional argument to insist that all refugees be repatriated – because, given their complicated tribal loyalties, they may constitute a domestic security
threat.
More than a decade after the fact, the Kremlin still decries NATO’s eastward enlargement as a security
threat.
The reality, of course, is that NATO is as much of an offensive
threat
to Russia as Switzerland is.
But it is not NATO’s military power that Putin’s Kremlin finds alarming; the real
threat
is the alliance’s potential to “swallow” Moldova or Ukraine at some point.
India’s best option is to hold out a credible
threat
of military action, while imposing, together with other democratic powers, economic sanctions that undercut support for Yameen among the Maldivian elite, many of whom own the luxury resorts that now have far too many empty rooms.
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