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The DPJ threatened to change comfortable old arrangements, whereby the US could more or less tell the Japanese what to do.
But until China accepts that its territorial claims in the South China Sea must be discussed multilaterally, so that smaller countries like the Philippines and Vietnam do not feel threatened, China’s ever expanding “core interests” will be the root of instability in East Asia.
Without plentiful and low-cost energy, every aspect of the global economy is threatened.
Clearly, Israel would simply not be able to remain on the fence if chaos in a neighboring country threatened to become a permanent menace to its security.
In Thailand, the biggest crime of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters was to keep winning national elections with populist campaigns that threatened the interests of the country's long-established Bangkok-based elite.
That model is now threatened by the fallout from the scandal that started with phone hacking in Murdoch’s British press operations.
Otherwise, a country’s economic and political stability may be threatened.
Trump has threatened further measures against China, as well as tariffs on automobile imports from Europe.
Its eight or nine principal nations made war on each other whenever one threatened to seek and secure mastery over the others.
Individuals, NGOs, and journalists have been either overtly threatened or placed under surveillance.
The Trump administration has even threatened to back out of the Paris climate agreement, to which the world’s governments committed in 2015.
This new approach might have seemed threatened by Al Qaeda’s attacks on America, which led to a strengthening of US relations with Pakistan’s General Parvez Musharaff.
Whether they end up in Idlib province or somewhere else, they will still be threatened by Syrian government bombs.
That the migrants were terrible people who threatened the country’s stability?
By accommodating previously excluded citizens, the new national story made those at the center of the older, narrower version feel like a threatened minority.
Those who lose their jobs cannot find new ones because of barriers to entry, while high long-term unemployment makes those who do have jobs feel threatened.
By establishing a common “welfare floor” throughout the EU, providing an effective safety net to native workers whose jobs are threatened by integration, and adopting a coordinated policy on immigration, European citizens would be reassured.
According to a report released by US President Barack Obama’s administration last year, anywhere from 9% to 47% of jobs will be threatened by automation during the coming decade.
We saw this response explicitly in US President Donald Trump’s election campaign, during which he threatened to impose high tariffs on products from China, Mexico, and other countries.
Federalists in the European Parliament, and in Brussels generally, should not feel threatened.
Excessive private credit growth in the advanced economies before 2008 left many companies and households overleveraged, and their attempted deleveraging after the global financial crisis erupted that year threatened Chinese exports, employment, and growth.
As for NATO, the question of consultations among allies is addressed in Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that, “the Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”
“Our nation has always been threatened from outside,” he said.
Although nominally governed by “ethnic federalism,” where this threatened secession, as in Oromia or the Ogaden, Meles was quick to ignore the constitutional set-up.
Central banks’ independence is threatened if fiscal authorities can instruct central banks to finance public deficits and monetize debt, even in circumstances where harmfully high inflation results.
But it is not threatened if central banks independently decide to facilitate fiscal expansion through ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing when inflation is running below target.
He has threatened to tear up the highly successful North American Free Trade Agreement and pledged to block any attempt to move forward with the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The modern world economy is built upon a complex network of global economic connections, and those connections are directly threatened by war.
Last year, his administration threatened, via its ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, to impose financial punishment on countries that contested its formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
But, when it comes to international diplomacy, crass attempts to force particular outcomes, especially using money, usually have the opposite effect, as they tend to push those being threatened into taking more extreme positions.
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