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There are of course important economic risks, including the mispricing of assets caused by a decade of ultra-low interest rates, the shifts in demand caused by the Chinese economy’s changing structure, and European economies’ persistent weakness.
It is painful for Europe to lose pride in its new currency so fast, but in strict economics terms, no harm arises from the euro's present weakness.
- How long will the euro's weakness last?- What will bring about change?
Indeed, because she lacks the intense connection with voters needed to encourage them to turn out in a close race, her frontrunner status could, paradoxically, become her greatest weakness.
When it comes to foreign problems and challenges, however, any admission that the US cannot always get what it wants is portrayed as a sign of weakness in the defense of Americans’ freedom or security.
A related weakness is the lack of a true European single digital market.
A singular weakness of Modi’s government has been its tendency, when it comes to BJP extremists, to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds.
In China, despite some signs of weakness – the Shanghai market is down, for example – price growth is still robust in much of the country.
These raw figures on job losses, bad as they are, actually understate the weakness in world labor markets.
The North Koreans consider any reliance on the outside world as a source of weakness, even though their economy would collapse without Chinese handouts.
It is Russia's weakness that is a threat, and raises fears of chaos, unforseen uses of nuclear weapons, or another Chernobyl.
Here is the root of NATO's weakness and a serious question about its future.
Economic weakness thus provides an unprecedented opportunity for international engagement with the new Arab leadership, which should incorporate short-, medium-, and long-term goals.
The resulting political instability attracted outsiders keen to exploit governments’ weakness.
As long as the oil money keeps flowing, most Russians will express no nostalgia for the democratic opening of the Yeltsin years, with its accompanying combination of chaos, corruption, international weakness, and disrespect for the state.
Moreover, Russia in this time of weakness is interested in keeping the U.S. engaged in Europe, if only to balance Germany's potential might.
Given Russia's attack on Ukraine, this is a dismal prospect, because internal weakness and external threats are directly linked.
But if all firms cut wages simultaneously, the resulting weakness of overall demand undermines companies’ incentives to invest, in turn depressing productivity growth.
It is not the size or complexity of the UN that is the problem; its weakness lies in how it uses scientific and technical knowledge.
Unlike in the past, it stems neither from hegemonic ambitions nor from the sort of weakness that might tempt aggression.
Indeed, today’s Russians have no nostalgia for the Yeltsin years, which they associate with confusion, humiliation, shame and weakness.
During Obama’s first year in office, his administration placed a high priority on cooperation with China, but Chinese leaders seemed to misread US policy as a sign of weakness.
Meanwhile, China’s economic slowdown – the result of global weakness and efforts to cool the country’s inflation and overheated asset markets – threatens to slow the pace of job creation for the millions moving annually from rural poverty to greater prosperity in China’s expanding urban areas.
But the crucial point is not that a large common budget in the eurozone is politically impossible to achieve, but rather that it would not address the main problem: the weakness of the mechanisms safeguarding fiscal discipline in the member states.
A major weakness of EU foreign policy is its lack of versatile instruments for allocating financial aid to neighboring countries.
But, on all major issues, and not only because of their political weakness, Germany’s leaders now make public opinion the polestar of policy.
The problem goes beyond Germany’s current leadership, though its increasing weakness certainly does not help.
Emerging markets have suffered capital outflows and currency weakness, but this is more a consequence of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes than of any announcements emanating from the White House.
Her lack of managerial experience is thus her key weakness, and she will have to find a strong team to support her.
North Korea has what I call “the power of weakness.”
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