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In the eurozone, countries on the periphery needed currency weakness to reduce their external deficits and jump-start growth.
Many have not adjusted as advanced economies’ weakness reduces the room for export-led growth; and many delayed structural reforms needed to boost private-sector development and productivity growth, while embracing a model of state capitalism that will soon reveal its limits.
This should include the provision of defensive lethal assistance to Ukrainian forces; after all, strength deters and weakness provokes.
Tolerance becomes the cardinal European virtue in this vision, and the EU’s character as an entity with federal law but without federal statehood is viewed as a strength, not a weakness.
Half the explanation lies in the weakness and incompetence of John Major.
Second, the perception of weakness and division in the WTO will make it far harder to resist protectionist pressures worldwide, especially if the global economy slows.
But the experience in Latin America and southern Europe reveals perhaps a greater weakness of the left: the absence of a clear program to refashion capitalism and globalization for the twenty-first century.
Others, notably in Israel and Saudi Arabia, are disgusted by what they see as American weakness.
Continuing weakness in the Japanese economy will eventually hit the yen.
Like Japan in the 1980’s, China must defend itself from US claims that the renminbi’s weakness is the source of the imbalances between the two countries.
First, mounting signs of economic weakness in China and a series of uncharacteristic policy stumbles there still raise concerns about the overall health of the global economy.
But, today, emerging countries are growing very concerned with what they rightly perceive as the serious risks to their own economies implied by excessive weakness in Europe, which remains the world’s trade leader.
And many believe that whatever their weakness today, time is on the Palestinians’ side.
Perhaps the biggest weakness in the true believers’ argument is the trade deficit.
A strength and weakness of our analysis of competitiveness is that it focuses on the medium term, not the coming year or two.
Politicians on both sides of America’s political divide have generally felt that compromise would be viewed as a sign of weakness.
Given this structural weakness, the idea of a new Cold War is misleading.
Presumably, none of this will happen, and it is precisely such inaction that is, in large part, the cause of Russia’s strength and Europe’s weakness.
It is blatantly obvious that for Russia’s elites, weakness and cooperation are mutually exclusive.
The political weakness of those powers – whether global actors like the United States or regional players like Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia – has led to a remarkable role reversal in the region’s power dynamic.
Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis, perceived Abbas’s civility as weakness.
The Israelis discerned Abbas’s weakness early on, and once Hamas was elected in a landslide, had little incentive to help him despite the prodding of the United States.
During a meeting, which I attended, with a delegation from the International Press Institute to obtain the release of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza in March, Abbas explained the PA’s inability and weakness.
Closing the Investment GapBERKELEY – The weakness of private investment in the United States and other advanced economies is a worrisome – and perplexing – feature of the recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis.
According to the IMF, this “accelerator” theory of investment explains most of the weakness of business investment in the developed economies since the 2008 crisis.
The Weakness of the Strong DollarIt is always risky to write about exchange rates.
This is true even in cases like Venezuela, where large oil revenues masked the underlying weakness for a while.
But most countries that were over-saving and under-spending have not saved less and spent more; their current-account surpluses have been growing, aggravating the weakness of global demand and thus undermining growth.
More recently Taiwan is threatened with military maneuvers across the straights, even the firing of test missiles in its direction, whenever independence is suggestedParadoxically, nationalist chest pounding is motivated not by the strength and confidence that Chinese leaders wish to project, but by deep-seated fear of weakness.
The US and European decision to impose some economic sanctions now, with the possibility of adopting tougher and broader sanctions later, is not a sign of weakness but of strategic calculation.
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