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With regard to China, he has not only threatened to impose tariffs, but also raised the possibility that he will defy the “One China” policy that his predecessors, Republicans and Democrats alike, have respected for decades.
He was even more pointed in criticizing the prospect of abandoning the Paris climate agreement – as Trump has threatened to do.
China complained loudly, refused to allow Liu to collect the prize, and even threatened Norway with financial repercussions.
In attempting to save governments through fiscal austerity, banks are threatened with balance-sheet losses and a sudden collapse in confidence, while households suffer much higher unemployment.
This means that left-wing populists are inevitably compelled to compete with right-wing populists for the support of exactly the same groups that turned to fascism between the wars: young unemployed males, the “small man” who feels threatened by the “oligarchy” of bankers, global supply chains, corrupt politicians, remote European Union bureaucrats, and “fat cats” of all kinds.
Salafis have threatened to retaliate against Hamas, particularly the security brigades that led the counter-attack on the mosque.
Yet, the very speed with which American society has progressed has threatened half of the country, older and mostly white, unable and unwilling to live in the present.
The Financial Stability Board and the International Monetary Fund each found that many banks threatened during the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 would have needed double today’s levels of capital to survive intact.
Already, it has threatened the independence of the judiciary, the autonomy of universities, and freedom of the press.
No country feels more threatened than France, where one intemperate intellectual went so far as to describe EuroDisney as a "cultural Chernobyl... a construction of hardened chewing gum and idiotic folklore taken straight out of comic books written for obese Americans."
The monopoly on the use of violence exercised by democratic states must be preserved, which may involve expelling non-citizens who choose violence or advocate its use, and the detention of citizens who have practiced or threatened it.
Who is to say how the Chinese leadership would respond to a future pro-democracy uprising that threatened to undermine the regime?
Democracy is being directly threatened in the country where it should have the deepest cultural and political roots.
The third option, acquisition of nuclear armaments by potentially threatened countries, was based on the assumption that a government would be willing to use such weapons to defend its own country, if not another one.
By one count, activists were threatened in more than 109 countries in 2015.
But the Haqqanis were also the group that threatened the Americans the most.
China’s economic exceptionalism is now being threatened by a perfect storm of existing stresses – namely, the domestic debt build-up – and new complications, including US trade barriers, the geopolitical pushback against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and tightening monetary conditions, particularly in the United States.
By focusing on “biodiversity hotspots” – regions with unique and highly threatened natural environments – the CEPF relies on the common-sense principle that protecting what nature provides for free is a crucial element of sustainable economic development.
What occurred in the cage, according to this narrative, was the long-overdue defeat, by wholly necessary and defensible means, of a murderous terrorist insurrection that had threatened the country’s very existence.
In the Middle East, Israel has threatened military action against Syria and Iran.
Colombia, France, Spain, the European Union, and the United States have called on him to back down, and US President Donald Trump has threatened new sanctions if the voting goes ahead.
Europe’s Two-Speed FuturePARIS – For three years, the euro crisis has threatened not only to unravel the eurozone, but to bring down the entire European Union with it.
None of the Big Three can be seriously threatened without triggering direct resistance and the security guarantees of allies.
According to Taylor, many European wars “were started by a threatened power, which had nothing to gain by war and much to lose.”
Nationalism became lethal when the economy crashed, and social unrest threatened to upset the political order.
TUI, the world’s largest travel agency and tour operator, feels threatened by TripAdvisor.
Indeed, the viability of Syria, a multi-ethnic state, is being threatened by multiple armed groups supported by external sponsors – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, the United States, Turkey, France, and many private donors – who themselves have conflicting aims.
Because the selective tariffs threatened by the Commission will affect finished products, not inputs like steel, the damage inflicted on EU consumers by European countermeasures will be smaller than the damage inflicted on the US economy by Trump’s steel tariffs.
Who is threatened by Russia today?
The "riot" that I allegedly fomented occurred in March last year, when almost two hundred thugs claiming to be Winata's followers attacked Tempo's office, threatened to burn down the building, harassed staff, and injured one reporter.
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