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Ayman’s experience is all too familiar in Gaza’s crowded, crippled neighborhoods, where those who are least to blame for the troubles are suffering the most.
America, burdened by the cost of its Middle East troubles, eager to refocus on Asia, and no longer in need of Arab oil, can allow itself to leave the region to its destiny.
To veteran economic observers, Turkey’s troubles are almost a textbook case of an emerging-market flop.
While Americans saw in Bahrain’s protests in 2011 a people’s democratic aspirations, no one in the region doubted that the real source of the troubles was a restive Shia majority (perhaps inspired by Iraq, or even, as Sunni Arabs claimed, Iran) trying to remove a Sunni monarchy.
Throughout these troubles, China has held its tongue, sticking to its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of any nation.
A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy’s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.
Europe thus will lose a crucial opportunity to transform its own status from the widely resented source of global financial troubles to a powerful force for peace.
Never mind that the central bank is not responsible for Russia’s troubles – the run on the ruble, the recession, and the flare-up of inflation – and that using interest rates to prevent capital outflows always fails.
But the past can bring us more than just troubles of this kind.
Of course, Microsoft ran into its own legal troubles when it took over IBM’s former dominant position, waging long drawn-out court cases on both sides of the Atlantic.
Early warning signs of troubles in high-yield markets, emerging-market debt, and eurozone interest-rate derivatives markets are particularly worrisome in this regard.
All these day-to-day troubles, which often make us feel hopelessly vexed, are but a negligible trifle in comparison with the historic significance of the fall of Communism across the world, which was the background of the Czechoslovak November 1989.
Domestic troubles like political polarization and legislative gridlock – both of which Trump has actively exacerbated – also weaken America’s hand internationally.
Their argument is essentially that the peace process’s troubles stem from its deviation from the original intention of the architects of the Madrid Peace Conference, where a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation sat representing the two peoples.
And Thailand’s troubles may be about to worsen: With King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s health failing, his seven-decade reign may be near its end.
Fortunately, the main lesson to emerge from the region’s current troubles is that economies adapt faster than polities to changing conditions.
I am convinced that Russia’s troubles all come down to politics.
Yes, many of Greece's troubles were of its own making.
Of the two, Venezuela and its troubles pose the biggest threat to Cuba’s stability.
Although maintaining stable global energy prices and its alliance with Israel means that the US cannot cut itself off completely from the Middle East’s troubles, the shift in focus to Asia began early in Obama’s first administration, with Clinton announcing America’s strategic reorientation even before US troops began withdrawing from Iraq.
The Iranians now see themselves as immune from an American attack on their nuclear installations, for America’s troubles in Iraq and the growing opposition to the war in the US are a signal to them that America’s strategy of pre-emptive wars has failed.
But the Greek, Irish, Portuguese, and other bailouts, together with the euro’s troubles, have given them fresh ammunition.
Turkey's troubles -- be they financial crises or the current illness of Primer Minister Bulent Ecevit -- grab headlines.
Many eastern Germans, weaned on authoritarianism and unable or unwilling to benefit from the educational and occupational opportunities in a united Germany, are turning to far-right demagogues who blame all their troubles on immigrants and refugees, especially those from Muslim countries.
These comparisons are not neutral, and one may detect in the analogy between China today and nineteenth-century Germany an element of that guilty pleasure in others’ troubles that the Germans call “Schadenfreude.”
A few years ago, a Russian film simply entitled 1612 evoked the Time of Troubles, when weak leadership caused Russia to be invaded and subverted by insidious Polish aristocrats and capitalists.
Citing unnamed “corporate executives in China and Western economists,” The New York Times alleged in June that “there is evidence that local and provincial officials are falsifying economic statistics to disguise the true depth of [China’s] troubles,” thereby inflating a variety of economic indicators by 1-2 percentage points.
For most people, the troubles caused by the old-age crisis seem remote, while booming share or housing prices look concrete in brokerage statements or on the business pages of newspapers.
The troubles were compounded by the failure of the first post-dictatorship government, headed by Raul Alfonsin, to adapt to the emerging new global economy.
Another reform that could go a long way toward resolving Russia’s pension troubles – a fixed-contribution scheme – was actually initiated in 2002.
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