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If this trend continues, the EU’s waning influence will inevitably weaken its economic position and reduce its competitiveness.
But it is also the EU’s growing complexity that is at the root of voters’ waning enthusiasm, so their indifference is a matter for serious concern.
A former adviser to Deng Xiaoping and confidante of former President Jiang Zemin (whose political influence is now waning), Li was among the first to invest in China after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.
Indeed, it is the US, whose global influence is waning, for which maintaining control at the World Bank matters the most.
Waning confidence is a eurozone-wide problem, but the Franco-German relationship lies at its core.
Given Europe’s current malaise and the waning impact of so-called “Abenomics” in Japan, it is difficult to believe that their economies, which fueled global output growth for several decades, will regain their former stature.
Recent court rulings in the United States have given the vultures the upper hand, and may make debt restructuring even more difficult, while enthusiasm for bailouts is clearly waning.
The obvious question is why the eurozone recovery is waning, even amid highly supportive expansionary monetary policies.
But its influence is waning.
Following the onset of the recession that followed the 2008 global financial crisis, China’s policymakers spent seven years replacing waning demand for their country’s net exports with a homegrown investment bubble, inflated by local governments’ aggressive land sales.
As communism disintegrated, senior apparatchiks ingeniously converted their waning power into financial stakes in the emerging market economy.
They take popular opposition to the deal as a sign that America’s commitment to an open economy may be waning.
As China is now able to harness its own technological might to produce sophisticated weapons, Russia’s usefulness in this area is waning fast.
But that discontent continues to bubble beneath the surface – manifested on social media and in political absenteeism – and it shows no signs of waning.
An agreement last month between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov to launch a new political process for Syria, Geneva II, marked a possible opportunity; but hope is waning even before the talks begin.
With Western influence waning, Eastern European countries will likely deepen their economic and diplomatic ties with Russia.
But what can be accomplished is likely to be limited by countries’ domestic politics, the absence of international consensus, and the waning of US influence, which no other country is able to replace and few are willing even to support in promoting order.
But this dominance is waning, as evidenced by its declining use as an official reserve currency, as well as for invoicing goods and services, denominating international claims, and anchoring exchange rates.
Likewise, France’s economic growth is waning not because France has failed to undertake necessary structural reforms, but because European interest rates are too high.
The US, on the other hand, continues to dominate militarily, while its economic influence is waning.
While that might enhance the EU’s popularity in the periphery, it could increase resistance to EU membership in Germany – a country that, despite its waning economic strength, remains an important piece of the integration puzzle.
As the post-war generation ages – with most of its members now at least 60 years old and its leaders either in senior leadership positions or acting as senior statesmen – the remaining support for integration is waning.
The current decline in home prices is associated just as clearly with waning speculative enthusiasm among investors, which is likewise largely unrelated to monetary policy.
While the spirit of waning interest in basic science, which characterizes today’s large industrial groups, dominates in Europe, a brilliant American countermeasure has been the rise of small “high tech” companies that engage in basic research and long-term reflection.
In strategic terms, the waning influence of a paralyzed Europe is also very bad news for America.
China’s new leadership is further removed from Maoist-era reflexive opposition to nuclear negotiations;Russian leaders’ confidence in their economic and military resurgence is waning; and both countries are increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress in nuclear talks with North Korea and Iran.
At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.
Indeed, that passion shows little sign of waning.
But that mindset is waning, and government and business leaders now routinely warn of bubbles and adopt policies to counter them.
In Steven Lee Myers’ excellent new biography, The New Tsar, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief describes how, when Putin was posted in East Germany in the waning years of communism, he used his opponent’s weaknesses to advance the Soviet cause.
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