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A dollar crisis could weaken the foundations of American power.
High Tariffs on Chinese Imports Would Weaken AmericaBEIJING – Until the 1970s, the United States’ foreign trade was largely balanced.
French scientist Louis Pasteur formulated the first rabies vaccine in 1885, by injecting the virus into rabbits, waiting for it to kill them, and then drying the infected nerve tissues to weaken the virus to the point that it could be safely administered.
Like it or not, policymakers must accept that central-bank independence will continue to weaken, and they should prepare to cope with the consequences.
This only deepened US involvement in the wrong war and emboldened Pakistan to fatten the Afghan Taliban, even as sustained US attacks continued to severely weaken Al Qaeda.
Even though the vote of censure did not take place, it seems almost inevitable that the very fact of threatening such a vote will, at least temporarily, weaken the position of the Commission, as one of the European Union’s key institutions, and that it will correspondingly strengthen the position of the European Parliament.
Not only is Europe running the risk of lasting economic damage; high long-term unemployment and popular discontent threaten to weaken permanently the cohesiveness of its social fabric.
A peace process conceived as a means to weaken and isolate the winners of an election – Hamas – is unlikely to gain much traction.
Although CAFTA represents an important opportunity in the region's quest to expand its access to the US market, it is unclear whether the new rules will strengthen or weaken Central American producers.
Saudi Arabia wanted Assad gone to weaken a client state of Iran, the kingdom’s main rival for regional primacy.
Israel wanted Assad gone to weaken Iran’s supply lines to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere.
So Russia's liberals and democrats face a harsh choice: do they support Putin's personal authoritarianism or seek to weaken and delegitimize him and thus restore the role of an ascendant bureaucracy?
Even healthy economies like South Korea are keen to weaken their currencies, leaving the US alone in its willingness to tolerate significant currency appreciation.
But the opaque nature of the deal may further weaken America’s already wobbly standing in Kyrgyzstan, where the contract has been cast as a source of corruption that padded the bank accounts of two successive dictators.
To be sure, this could weaken a debtor’s leverage – the promise of future repayment – in bringing creditors back to the negotiating table.
The Emerging-Market Currency RoutSANTIAGO – With the currencies of Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico hitting record lows recently, currency traders around the world are asking: How much further can emerging-market currencies weaken?
Perhaps the most urgent intervention is to weaken Big Tech’s grip on our personal data, a grip that allows Google and Facebook to develop targeted advertising tools that are taking over the marketing business.
If we allow it simply to happen on its own, many jurisdictions will be stuck with pipelines to nowhere, half-built mega-mines, and stranded assets that weaken the economy and contribute to political polarization and social unrest.
More broadly, backing away from such a project would undermine the Bank’s promotion of rule-based systems and legal certainty – and would weaken the reformers in developing and emerging economies who seek to transform clientilist and patronage-based economies.
The prizes conferred on opportunistic defectors not only undermine the party system, but weaken the foundations of parliament by making organized opposition impossible.
Russia has made no secret of its desire to weaken NATO.
On the right, it is viewed as a means to demolish complex welfare bureaucracies while recognizing the need for some social transfer obligations in a way that doesn’t weaken incentives significantly.
The main drawback, according to critics, is that a basic income would weaken the motivation to work, particularly among the poor.
It would also weaken the security, foreign policy, and international standing of both parties.
Simply put, the lack of solidarity among member states has fueled efforts to weaken the values and principles on which the EU was founded, with many favoring a view that holds out the nation-state as the solution to every problem.
One example is President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to the United Kingdom – which in essence is also an attempt to weaken Britain’s “special relationship” with the US by creating a cat’s cradle of trade, financial, and investment ties with Britain.
One might expect a leader who faces internal armed opposition to avoid doing anything that might weaken the military.
Both outcomes would weaken demand for foreign goods by making Americans feel that they are too poor to buy them.
It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation.
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