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This is especially the case as the three countries assess the feasibility of common migration policies, border development and infrastructure, shared natural resources, environmental protection, economic and social policy coordination, and other issues of common concern.
Progress has been made on many fronts, including burden-sharing in settling refugees, reforming and strengthening Europe’s border protections and coast guard, concluding agreements with other countries to return migrants, and providing development and governance assistance to address the push factors driving migration.
Nor, given linguistic and cultural barriers, can unemployed Greeks move just as easily across the border to a more prosperous European state.
Even the army’s new uniforms, which border on the comic with their eighteenth-century epaulets and World War II jackets, invoke the past, rather than provide the comfort and efficiency needed in modern warfare.
China, too, is wary of India, which will soon surpass it in population size and is emerging as an economic and strategic competitor – one with which it shares a disputed border.
Putin, knowing that the Russian Army’s current logistical systems for supplying Crimea are insufficient, appears to be readying plans to secure a land corridor from the Russian border through southeastern Ukraine.
After all, it is no coincidence that China’s quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth came after the Soviet threat on its border was eliminated.
Instead the Bush administration decided to wage the war essentially on its own; for this kind of small war, it really did not need its European allies, although in the latter stages of the fighting, French Mirage jets, and British, German, Danish, and Norwegian special forces troops were active in battles in the mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
Meanwhile, US efforts to establish a “moderate” armed opposition achieved little, apart from giving the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) – an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – control of the strip of northern Syria abutting the Turkish border.
Smaller border countries like Hungary and Greece simply do not have the capacity to register and house hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers.
Shifting NATO's border east immediately puts on the agenda the issue of who comes next.
Given this, they may end up making only minor substantive changes to the ACA and then slapping a new name on it – the analog of building a “beautiful” quarter-mile wall along the Mexican border to serve as a backdrop for photo opportunities.
On April 8, over loud protests from China’s government, the Dalai Lama addressed devotees from far and wide at the historic monastery in the border town of Tawang, where the sixth Dalai Lama was born more than three centuries ago.
And, given his support for Tibetan self-rule (Chinese officials angrily call him a “splittist”), his visit to a sensitive border area is being viewed as a deliberate provocation.
Long used in passports and at border crossings, these unique identity markers have many other applications.
With the PYD in control of some 75% of the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkey fears the opening of a new front in its battle with the PKK, which has been concentrated in Turkey’s southeast since fighting resumed in 2015.
The group has secured all that border territory by fighting the same jihadis whom Turkey claims to be trying to destroy.
Meanwhile, US officials encouraged their Turkish counterparts to seize border territory from ISIS.
But the state of turmoil just beyond the Alliance’s eastern border has created a reasonable fear in NATO’s Baltic member countries, as well as in Romania and Poland, about whether or not the Alliance would actually stand with them should they be threatened.
They are serving their sentence in Chita on the Chinese border, although Russian law prescribes that, for the crimes with which they were charged, they were entitled to be imprisoned near their place of domicile, i.e., in Moscow.
The necessary investments include an overhaul of the EU’s asylum policy and improvement of its border controls.
And a good deal of traffic – with new cars smuggled in through tunnels beneath the “Philadelphi Route” that runs along the Egyptian border.
We met the niece and son of a farmer caught in the “buffer zone” between the Israeli border and Gaza.
Such a confrontation need not block progress on other issues, such as border security, investments in industries of the future, taxation of US tech giants, and the defense of multilateralism.
Indeed, trade overshadows aid, and China – led by its border provinces – is now North Korea’s main trading partner and source of foreign investment.
There has also been renewed interest in developing the port city of Rason near the China-Russia-North Korea border as a special economic zone.
They pursue self-serving, beggar-thy-neighbor migration policies – such as building border fences – that further fragment the Union, seriously damage member states, and subvert global human-rights standards.
Some two decades after border controls were first abolished under the Schengen Agreement – which now includes 26 countries, including four non-members of the European Union – Germany has reinstated controls at its border with Austria, and France at its border with Belgium.
In fact, the reinstatement of border controls seems to be an example of “security theater” – a policy intended to make the public feel like something is being done.
The recognition of the flawed logic behind reinstating border controls is probably why police officials have remained guarded in discussing the issue.
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