Word: weaknessness
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Moreover, Mercosur at the moment is even more profoundly concerned than usual with its own weakness. Argentina's financial crisis, which has sopped up some $40 billion in emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund, has put the country virtually into economic receivership. In Buenos Aires last month, the government...
The Americans no longer have the nerve and the patience to get into the details of this conflict, so they're relying on Jordan and Egypt to do more of the work because they'd like to see the situation quiet down. But a major weakness of the plan is...
Our carefully worded letter to the septuagenarian dictators in Beijing was not, as some of the more extreme critics would have it, a “national humiliation.” It made us look weak, yes, to declare that “we are very sorry the entering of...
The real question, though, is why this harder line wasn’t taken before our airmen were allowed to come home. In an incident where the Chinese pilot, not our crew, was to blame, why did the Bushies even take seriously the Chinese demand for an apology from us...
Jiang's hard line revealed the weakness of his position at home. The crisis hit at the most delicate moment in his career since he took power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. More than anyone else, he was responsible for restoring U.S.-China relations after that uprising. But Jiang...