Sentences with phrase «economic war with»

«To me the economic war with China is everything.

He said he was planning to oust several lower - down State and Defense Department officials who might object to economic war with China; he named Susan Thornton, the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, as one example of someone he wants to fire.

One thing we should all agree on is that you can't fight a digital economic war with analog ideology.

Not exact matches

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

But without a consensus from the economic community, it would be unwise to risk stamping out the economic recovery by sparking a trade war with China over currency disputes or drastically reducing the budget deficit.

The Koch groups are worried that tariffs and a trade war with China would offset any potential positive economic gains from the GOP's tax cuts.

«If Trump really signs the order, that is a declaration of trade war with China,» said Wei Jianguo, former vice commerce minister and now an executive deputy director of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a government - linked think tank.

The Remain campaign would have us believe the EU would impose tariff barriers in retribution, but the truth is we import nearly # 70bn more from the continent than we sell there, so it would be an absurd act of economic self - harm for the EU to start a trade war with Britain.

With its warnings of depleted bank reserves, weak governance, and political uncertainty, the IMF's account reads more like the analysis of a war - ravaged economic basket - case than the prospects for a developed economy in one of the richest economic zones in the world.

In contrast, China's state media described Xi's promises as simply the next stage in the country's economic restructuring and reform, albeit with the caveat that countries that «frequently launch trade wars against other countries» would not benefit from it.

11 world saturated with news of terrorism, war and economic distress.

But being at war with your smaller neighbor can also be costly, especially if your belligerence attracts international criticism and economic sanctions, and coincides with a collapse in the value of oil, your key export commodity.

After dealing with war, hyperinflation, economic collapse and wrenching social change, they're ready for anything the world can throw at them.

In a surprising interview with the small liberal magazine the American Prospect, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said there is «no military solution» to North Korea, declared that «ethnonationalists» like those who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, were «losers,» and threatened an «economic war» against China.

President Trump's new trade war with China wreaked havoc on the financial markets Thursday, with the Dow Jones plunging over 400 points on fears that an overly protectionist agenda will curb trade and economic growth.

It's a sign that the Trump administration is still willing to risk a trade war with China despite its ouster of strategist Steve Bannon, the most prominent economic nationalist in the administration.

WASHINGTON — With trade tensions mounting between the United States and China, President Trump said he would dispatch his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and other top economic advisers to Beijing next week to try to forestall an all - out trade war.

The flight toward cryptocurrencies in a nation where inflation in bolivar prices is projected to surpass 2,000 percent next year falls in line with what has happened in other countries stricken by war or economic collapse.

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Taking on Mr. Trump on Monday, she warned that «what little we know of his economic policies» consisted of piling up debt, leading the country into trade wars and letting Wall Street run amok, with potentially devastating consequences.

With tensions running high between the US and EU, analysts have warned that the spat could devolve into a tit - for - tat trade war that would cause prices to rise and damage economic growth.

Rising commodity prices associated with the beginning of the Korean War had significantly strengthened Canada's trade balance with the United States, and the concurrent economic recovery in Europe had further boosted demand for Canadian exports.

He delivered a speech Friday that threw into doubt whether the Powell Put exists — at least with respect to potential economic disruption from a trade war.

With debt already higher as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than at any time other than the aftermath of World War II, this new debt is likely to slow economic growth and hasten the country's fiscal deterioration.

Why is the market going up with unemployment so high, consumer debt outrageous, an environment where taxes must go higher, energy 5xs the norm, housing still depressed, access to credit stunted, expensive war expenditures, the Greece failure, a weak dollar, and slow economic growth?

By the second quarter of 1952, the price increases had petered out as it became clear that the Korean War would not spread into a worldwide conflict and with the sharp slowdown in economic growth recorded in that year.

President Donald Trump is sending his top economic advisers to Beijing this week for talks to avert a possible trade war with China.

With geopolitical theatre (trade war posturing, central bank comments, FBI raids of Presidential lawyers, etc) grabbing all the headlines this week, it's easy to forget that there is still some potentially market - moving economic data scheduled for release.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

The most impressive economic growth in U.S. history coincided with the middle - class interregnum, the post-World War II generation, when incomes were most evenly distributed.

Perhaps the lyrics apply to the last one, if we equate land - hunger with the desire for «gold,» but political history accounts of why «such - and - such a President or Congress eventually entered us into such - and - such a war» reveal time and again that a motivation of economic interest was not the reason, and seldom even the second or third reason, offered or discussed (even in the secret discussions hence uncovered by historians).

Previous chapters in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian ethics to the culture of our times in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the problems of war and peace in the international scene.

Immediately after World War II, the acknowledged disparity in the wealth of nations led to the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; it was then widely assumed that the so - called developing countries could be brought up to some sort of parity with the developed countries by lending money and promoting economic growth.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

Whereas challenges to biblical faith, world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second coming of Christ, increasingly plausible.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

Although it reopened after the war, the economic devastation visited upon South Carolina and Georgia by Sherman's army combined with an endowment from Kentucky Baptists precipitated its move to Louisville, Kentucky in 1877.

In general, the contributors are preoccupied with a humanism which they see as dead, with the economic depression and war, and with Barthianism in theology.

When these worldview differences are aligned with other social distinctions — such as economic class, race, region or religion — competition can turn from civil politics to cultural war.

With the end of the cold war, the USA was the only remaining super power with enormous military and economic power such as the world has not seen befWith the end of the cold war, the USA was the only remaining super power with enormous military and economic power such as the world has not seen befwith enormous military and economic power such as the world has not seen before.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

but to provide all men with basic economic security would provide one way of easing the tensions that lead to war.

Beginning with the changes in Eastern Europe, the world is in the process of a «re-constellation» which is characterized by the breakdown of the cold war ideological polar structure, the realignment of the military powers, the reordering of the economic powers, and the rapid globalization of communication and cultural life.

From the starting point of the revelation of the nature and will of God that has come to man through Christ, she has dealt first with the biblical foundations of Christian ethics followed by their application to specific contemporary problems, including self and society, marriage, economic life, race, the state, war, peace and others.

By the same token, the unprecedented economic growth that began after World War II steadily weakened the identification of the rest of society with the poor.

This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

On the other hand, we have the Marxist interpretation of history as a «dialectical» process, determined by economic factors; a process which takes form in our time as the final class - war between bourgeoisie and proletariate with their respective «ideologies».

George was faced with an economic crisis, the Irish Liberation movement and World War I all at the same time.