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The US seems more reluctant than ever to exercise the leverage that it still has to press China to correct policies that threaten to distort trade, foster huge trade imbalances, and spark greater competition for scarce raw materials.
The “euro crisis” can end only when debt problems on Europe’s periphery can no longer threaten overall stability of the eurozone’s financial system.
It would also include an aggressive attempt to reduce the sovereign-debt overhang that remains a major impediment to growth and continues to threaten some European banks.
As a small group of countries increasingly accounts for the world’s remaining oil reserves, their market dominance may threaten the pace of investment.
They have somehow concluded that America will be spared from the droughts already destroying farms in California’s Central Valley, the rising sea levels already flooding coastal cities, the storms and wildfires routinely ravaging vast swathes of the American countryside, and the water- and food-supply disruptions that threaten us all.
It is a fairly simple matter to declare the enlargement of the Atlantic alliance with little risk involved for NATO’s members: no foreign power is in a position to threaten their territorial integrity.
If sea levels were to rise by one meter, the resulting saltwater intrusion would threaten 70% of Vietnam’s coastal farmlands.
While this arrangement may sound more pluralistic, in reality it blocks the implementation of decisive reforms that might threaten vested interests within the Politburo.
Since having its territorial claims in the South China Sea struck down by a Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016, China has continued to threaten smaller regional players’ maritime access there.
Given the current trajectory of global fossil-fuel use, the planet's temperature is likely to rise by 4-6 degrees Celsius above its pre-industrial level, an increase that would be catastrophic for food production, human health, and biodiversity; indeed, in many parts of the world, it would threaten communities' survival.
Whether it is coastal versus inland or rural versus urban, these countries must tackle the widening disparities, because high inequality may well threaten their very ability to continue growing as they have.
Without the ability to devalue their currencies, the only recourse the eurozone’s persistent debtors have is to threaten to leave the single currency.
The Japanese police usually overlook private gambling that does not threaten public peace and order.
If only one were invited to join as a symbol of western determination, Russia would interpret this as appeasement, not steadfastness)If Nato says “Yes” to the Baltics, it must make both Moscow and the Baltic three understand that enlargement is meant to increase stability along Russia’s western border, not threaten Russia.
Just as terrorists have created a kind of multilateral offensive, the countries that they threaten must construct a multilateral defense.
While the global economy continues its broad-based expansion, disruptive economic, geostrategic, and technological forces may threaten ASEAN’s gains of recent years.
If Russia and Iran threaten to withdraw support, Assad will have no option other than to come to the table.
They threaten a major protectionist backlash in the United States and Europe; and they undermine the recovery in developing and emerging markets.
And, as for cybertechnology, should we worry about another science fiction scenario – that a network of computers could develop a mind of its own and threaten us all?
Likewise, Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn told the US Senate that losses in the mortgage market would not threaten banking viability.
The crisis was always about much more than Greece: a disorderly insolvency there would threaten to pull other economies on the EU’s southern periphery, including some very big ones, into the fiscal abyss, along with major European banks and insurers.
A Greek default would threaten to sink them, too, for it would raise immediate concerns about the solvency of Europe’s systemically important banks and insurance companies.
Morales’ sympathizers threaten to erect roadblocks.
In turn, the most radical regional opposition groups threaten secession if the central government blocks their demands for greater self-government.
The problem is that the reforms needed to achieve such growth – fighting corruption, protecting property rights, privatization, and integration into the global economy – directly threaten the elite’s ability to hold on to power and extract rents.
Endemic diseases threaten us all, but especially our children.
In what remains of this decade, the region’s policymakers will have to work hard to ensure that it doesn’t happen again, especially as rich-country central banks normalize interest rates and capital flows threaten to turn back toward the advanced economies.
Imports of cheap Chinese goods threaten to displace regional production, particularly in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors that are finding it difficult to compete.
For him, Australian came of age later, at Kokoda, often called Australia’s Thermopylae, when a small group of young soldiers resisted the advance of Japanese army divisions that seemed set to take Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and threaten the Australian continent.
The need to prove oneself as a lasting relic of the old human supremacy will threaten not just the common good, but also our common humanity.
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