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If the US dollar weakens in relation with other major currencies, China may not need to adjust RMB's nominal rate for quite a while.
As the dollar weakens, America looks even less safe.
On the contrary, it is the failure to use soft power effectively that weakens America in the struggle against terrorism.
The areas populated by Tibetans cover a quarter of China; to have such a large part of the country’s territory under military control and cut off from the outside world weakens the Communist Party’s claims to legitimacy and world power status.
That implies a potential boon to Russia’s main gas producers, especially as Europe’s energy-diversification campaign weakens export demand.
As state authority weakens, tribal and sectarian allegiances strengthen.
More generally, military interference with civilian politics, for any reason, weakens the processes, institutions, and checks on state power that make liberal democracy work.
There is precedent for this: whenever the dollar weakens, foreign central banks are eager to help.
Antagonistic rhetoric that alienates Muslims and weakens their willingness to provide crucial intelligence endangers us all.
The problem, of course, lies in sluggish economic growth, which undermines wage growth, weakens tax revenues, and makes it impossible for governments to pay down their debts.
One-party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.
To sustain strong growth in these economies as external demand weakens, domestic demand needs to become the major engine of growth.
Inequality leads to weak demand; widening inequality weakens demand even more; and, in most countries, including the US, the crisis has only worsened inequality.
Even before Arafat’s death, Abbas argued that the use of force by militants weakens the Palestinian negotiating position.
At the same time, however, purely bilateral negotiations between individual EU members and oil- and gas-producing countries weakens the member states’ bargaining power, as well as undermining Europe’s geopolitical weight in world affairs.
The absence of consensus on climate change, or resistance in Congress to new trade agreements, weakens the president’s hand.
But his secret reliance upon the Taliban card – one that he has been accused of playing for years – increases as his authority weakens.
As the pervasiveness and flexibility of the new medium weakens traditional media censorship, internet-enabled social activism plays an increasingly influential role in China's legal reform and the development of its nascent civil society.
And restructuring weakens banks, which generally hold large portfolios of government bonds, thus making them less able to finance the economy.
Not only do they repeatedly generate destabilizing asset bubbles, but, when demand weakens, forces that exacerbate the downturn come into play.
Obviously, a measured pace of economic growth in the developing world – neither so high that it sets the stage for later collapse nor so low that it weakens the public’s sense of solid progress towards a better life – would help ensure social and political stability, thereby fostering further growth.
As Obama has just discovered, having a legislature that clearly does not want to go to war weakens the executive’s hand in international negotiations.
But a closer look at these oxymoronic, quasi-miraculous episodes reveals that, for the usual recessionary impact of fiscal consolidation to be eliminated or even reversed, at least one of three conditions must be met: households’ precautionary savings decline; long-term interest rates fall; or a more expansionary monetary policy stimulates demand and weakens the exchange rate.
In fact, it weakens respect for law.
When the United States Federal Reserve embarked on QE, it was accused of exporting its problems, because aggressive monetary easing inevitably weakens the currency.
A second danger arises from the fact that, by liberalizing trade for only a few economically successful industries, open sectoralism weakens, rather than strengthens, the broad political support needed for the comprehensive global trade agreements that benefit most businesses, consumers, and countries.
The new law seriously weakens Peru’s ability to regulate land use, set environmental quality standards, and rein in corporate misconduct through environmental-impact assessments.
A comparison between trends in the US and Europe further weakens the “losers of globalization” argument.
But, even more important, tax avoidance on Romney’s scale undermines belief in the system’s fundamental fairness, and thus weakens the bonds that hold a society together.
This has two obvious benefits: it cuts the overall cost of the system by shrinking the number of retirees, and thus weakens the constituency that opposes reform.
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