The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.
thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.
think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
纽约——埃及公共财政揭示了一个令人不安的事实:付给外国贷款的利息超过了教育、医疗和住房预算之和。事实上,债务利息支出一项就占到了埃及政府总支出的22%。
所造成的影响是无法忽略的。随着政治不确定性的增加和经济增长的减速,埃及的政府收入可能会下降,紧急支出需求可能会增加,政府借贷的利率也会水涨船高。这将带来财政崩溃的危险,而与此同时,埃及正处在复杂政治过渡的关键时刻。
埃及公债相当于GDP的80%,与经济学家肯尼斯·罗格夫(Kenneth Rogoff)和卡门·莱因哈特(Carmen Reinhart)所指出的90%临界点十分接近——超过90%将导致经济增长减缓、金融和财政危机风险大增。只要看看北边的欧洲债务危机,埃及人就能明白,债务问题必须现在就解决,不能让埃及变成第二个希腊。
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