Word: exportable
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...team had to ask the Chinese government not to backtrack on its commitment to "continued currency reform," as a Treasury spokesman put it. The RMB has recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington - particularly among U.S. labor unions, which heavily backed President-elect Barack Obama. For its sake, China blandly replied that the recent fluctuations in the RMB market were in line with market forces...
...Time. Plus, I don’t think you can export democracy. George Bush and those folks thought you could, but I don’t think you can. For democracy to happen people have to understand what democracy is and they have to want to adopt it. Each country that tries to go down the democratic road is probably going to have a different democracy than the Americans have...
...clear the Mumbai group was connected to the Pakistan-supported Lashkar-e-Taiba, but it takes a while before we know how close and structured that relationship was and how much autonomy the attacking unit was operating with," Bruguière says. "LeT is keen to export its fight throughout the region and world but will do so in loose relationships with myriad extremist movements out there. Some will use car explosions, others kamikaze bombers, and others insurgent terrorists who - just maybe - decide to use drugs to keep their strike going longer. If we want to prepare...
Brisset says China is now exploiting recent history to use France as a wedge with which to divide Europe, export-dependent China's second largest trading partner. "China faces real trouble on human rights, trade, the ecology, and how it has managed the economic and financial crisis, and it doesn't want further problems from Europe," Brisset says, noting that the E.U. recently introduced new tariffs on Chinese goods. "If Sarkozy recognizes China is attacking France to divide Europe, and insists the E.U. come up with a firm collective stand to replace weak bilateral accords, this could be an opportunity...
...public sanitation not to be able to filter out the feces of an infected person from the water supply (ingesting fecal matter is the most common way for cholera to spread). So it is a stark indication of how far Zimbabwe has fallen that a country that used to export food is now in the grip of a cholera epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) says has claimed 412 lives and infected 9,908 people. South Africa's Sunday Times said 400 new cholera cases were arriving at a treatment center in the township of Budiriro every...