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On the contrary, it is high time for friends of the United States, particularly in Europe, to realize that America’s weakness undermines their international influence as well.
The evidence of America’s weakness is clear enough.
Or consider Iran, another power exploiting American weakness.
The result of protracted US weakness is also a weaker Europe.
In the long period of American weakness, European leaders will have to demonstrate statesmanship for the West as a whole.
Thus, it is only a matter of time before Russian President Vladimir Putin probes British weakness again.
Weakness in the periphery has led to capital flowing back to Germany as a regional safe haven, lowering German borrowing costs.
In managing the 2008 crisis, foreign banks’ dependence on US-dollar funding constituted a major weakness, and required the provision of large swap lines by the Federal Reserve.
It exaggerated the weakness of America, which remains the world’s only superpower.
Even today, Europe’s military weakness is working to undermine the transatlantic relationship.
The coming years, indeed decades, will be characterized by an increasingly aggressive US-Chinese dualism as China becomes stronger and America’s weakness persists.
And America’s weakness, the growing dependence of European (especially German) exports on the Chinese market, and the enticements of the Far East more generally, will nurture a new and promising Eurasian perspective as Transatlanticism declines.
The EU policies, by contrast, have lately been characterized by indecision and weakness.
A compromise - and this is, of course, what the Round Table was - is usually a result of some weakness on both sides.
This led to increased flows into the carry trade, which for a while increased its success, because higher inflows tended to exacerbate the weakness of the low-interest-rate currencies.
A variety of factors are at work: concerns about a hard landing for the Chinese economy; worries that growth in the United States is faltering at a time when the Fed has begun raising interest rates; fears of escalating Saudi-Iranian conflict; and signs – most notably plummeting oil and commodity prices – of severe weakness in global demand.
It might seem odd that a country running a $600 billion trade surplus in 2015 should be worried about currency weakness.
Yet to be forewarned of a weakness is to be forearmed.
Their financial crisis is the main reason for their weakness.
Failure to do so leads, over time, to terminal organizational weakness, owing to lost credibility amongst employees, shareholders, customers, and communities.
But the root of his adventurism is domestic weakness.
From the vantage point of the European Central Bank, which is coping with another round of distress in the periphery (primarily in Italy, where the frailty of the banking system is fueling capital outflows), the euro’s weakness is a godsend.
But the credit crisis in Europe, and the weakness of eurozone banks, may be even more important.
In fact, the reason may be just the opposite: a sense among China’s rulers of weakness at home.
That problem is a reflection of a broader Japanese weakness in foreign languages, especially English.
At the height of Yeltsin’s career, many Russians identified with his bluntness, impulsiveness, sensitivity to personal slight, even with his weakness for alcohol.
Corruption, for example, may have cultural antecedents and is part and parcel of institutional weakness.
As the state plunges into chronic weakness, a growing number of people yearn for it to be made stronger, even if our new liberties need to be sacrificed here and there.
The EU’s problem is much more what happened in Copenhagen last December at the summit to “save the planet,” or what is taking place before our eyes with the challenge to the euro posed by the weakness of some of its member states, most prominently Greece.
A crucial hallmark of Palestinian society is the weakness of its institutions: civic organizations are woefully under-developed, and responsive party structures that can effectively representing social interests do not exist--except those of the armed militias, like Fatah or Hamas.
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