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The current preference for inaction, while perhaps understandable, threatens to lead to precisely the outcomes that its advocates want to avoid.
By helping to de-legitimize Yasir Arafat and by accepting Prime Minister Sharon's characterization of Israel's reoccupation as "self-defense," American policy threatens to weaken the moral clarity and credibility of the US in the eyes of the world.
It is not just American reporting that suffers when a law such as the NDAA threatens journalists and editors.
Kenya’s crushing debt to China now threatens to turn its busy port of Mombasa – the gateway to East Africa – into another Hambantota.
The result is a combustible mixture of extremism and hopelessness that threatens to consume the Pakistani state, as government-sponsored terrorists now turn on their erstwhile patrons.
Unfortunately, this is a well-worn path in this region whenever internal turmoil in the DRC threatens to spin out of control.
Coming on top of US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, his appointment threatens progress toward a low-carbon economy.
But it is also important to convince people that combating climate change threatens neither prosperity nor private enterprise.
On the far right, free-market ideologues deny climate change because it threatens their facile economic ideology.
And there are other big challenges looming beyond Syria: Iraq’s descent into chaos, closely linked to the Syrian tragedy, threatens to turn into a new theater of conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Indeed, the great arc stretching from Cairo to the Hindu Kush threatens to become the locus of global disorder.
As the slowdown threatens to impede job creation, undermining the prospects of the millions of people moving to China’s cities each year in search of a more prosperous life, the Chinese Communist Party will struggle to maintain the legitimacy of its political monopoly.
This disturbing development – a byproduct of the failed “global war on drugs” – threatens to reverse recent economic and social gains in our region.
This gives rise to what may be called financial protectionism, which threatens to disrupt and perhaps destroy global financial markets.
Netanyahu’s short-sighted reluctance to give up settlements and occupied territory threatens Israel’s long-term interest to reach a fair settlement with the Palestinians.
By legitimizing the concept of an EU breakup, and thus turning a fantasy among political extremists into a realistic option of mainstream politics throughout Europe, Brexit threatens to trigger an irresistible disintegration process.
Our Summer of Climate TruthNEW YORK – For years, climate scientists have been warning the world that the heavy use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) threatens the world with human-induced climate change.
Yet, despite its broad mandate and many functions, UNAIDS lacks adequate resources, which threatens past achievements and future programs alike, and poses a danger to people and communities that depend on the lifesaving support the organization helps facilitate.
Likewise, global integration means that eurozone distress threatens the US economy, while the US debt-ceiling standoff threatens financial markets everywhere.
The transactional understanding of international relations, with its demand for instant gratification, threatens to undermine such efforts.
Secular stagnation threatens the West, accompanied by rising protectionism sentiment.
Americans recognize that a violation of anyone’s rights threatens the rights of all.
At nearly 10% of GDP, the deficit is resulting in a mountain of debt that threatens America’s future.
But "managed democracy" now threatens to unravel all three of his real achievements.
The rapid expansion of Alibaba threatens Western retailers who never expected to face a Chinese competitor.
Because reform threatens their privileges, it must be resisted.
Managing the Risks of a Rising DollarNEWPORT BEACH – Argentinian President Mauricio Macri’s government has asked the International Monetary Fund for a loan that it hopes can stem a peso rout that has driven up interest rates, will slow the economy, and threatens the reform program.
Beyond challenging emerging markets’ stability, a sudden and sharp appreciation of the US dollar – and, specifically, the losses in trade competitiveness that it causes – threatens to complicate already-delicate trade negotiations.
Meanwhile, Europe finds itself paralyzed by a financial crisis that threatens the European Union’s very existence.
This is particularly important at a time when increasingly sophisticated and integrated technology threatens to leapfrog an entire generation of workers in some countries.
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