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We need to strengthen, not weaken, international cooperation.
Talent, innovation, and entrepreneurship will inevitably capture the lion’s share of the income being generated, and efforts to redistribute wealth can only be counterproductive, because they weaken the incentives that drive an economy forward.
China’s economic growth may slow as its exports to the US and Europe weaken, but it is less dependent on these markets than most people assume.
Russian operatives also involved themselves deeply into Georgia’s many political and ethnic conflicts, striving to weaken the Georgian state as much as possible.
Some extremists believe that the current absence of reform will weaken the Communist Party of China, and even call for a return to Maoism.
To be sure, the fading dream of an Islamic caliphate will weaken the ability of ISIS and kindred groups to recruit disaffected youth.
If they are to recover their reputations, and restore the health of their societies and economies, they must act decisively to weaken the allure of terrorist recruiters.
If scientists offer evidence to the contrary, call it a hoax, concocted to weaken America.
By developing markets for private pensions, commercial health insurance, and annuities, China could complement expanded government provision of social insurance and weaken the incentives that underlie high precautionary saving.
If European governments today distance themselves from America, as their citizens frequently demand, they will both antagonize and further weaken the US.
Although US President Barack Obama has shifted his focus toward the Asia-Pacific, reducing US forces in Europe, this needn’t weaken the Alliance’s capabilities or response times.
Others perceive calls for growth as a pretext to weaken employment protection or accept greater income inequality.
First, because most technology-based monopoly power does not violate existing antitrust laws, regulating IT will require new measures to weaken monopolies.
Military overreach has predictably led to nervousness about using military power, and others’ knowledge of this threatens to weaken America’s security as well.
War against Iraq will invariably be divisive and weaken the kingdom’s already delicate unity.
After more than a year of appreciation, the exchange rate began to weaken in the second quarter of 2018 – a drop that accelerated significantly in June, when the currency suffered its largest-ever monthly decline against the US dollar.
And company-based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate flexibility by locking in labor.
And they must do everything they can to defend liberal-democratic institutions, if Trump tries to weaken checks and balances.
Similarly, the government cut the department governors’ revenue in order to finance an expanded pension plan and weaken them politically and economically.
Any lesser display of resolve may fatally weaken the bedrock of Western security – and that of the world.
There is a lot of market speculation that the Chinese will undertake a sizable one-time devaluation, say 10%, to weaken the renminbi enough to ease downward pressure on the exchange rate.
If that happens, a renewed bout of financial turbulence would weaken the eurozone’s fragile economic recovery.
For Saudi Arabia, as for Israel, the main goal is to oust Assad in order to weaken Iran.
To the extent that we invest across sectors and regions to improve our carbon productivity (GDP per unit of carbon emitted), we will weaken the pollution constrain on global growth.
Moreover, China’s once seemingly inexhaustible surplus of rural labor willing to migrate to urban areas has largely disappeared, causing wages to rise and the country’s competitive advantage in labor-intensive manufacturing to weaken.
Britain can reduce its current-account deficit by causing the British pound to weaken relative to the dollar and the euro, which the French, again, cannot do without their own currency.
Yet, because an exchange rate is a relative price, all currencies cannot weaken simultaneously.
One need not be an economist to figure out that, while all currencies can (and do) depreciate against something else (like gold, land, and other real assets), by definition they cannot all weaken against each other.
So, after a varying mix of tolerance and “heterodox” responses, officials are pulled into loosening their own monetary policy in order to weaken their countries’ currencies or, at a minimum, limit the pace of appreciation.
Furthermore, trade tensions could weaken political ties.
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