Border
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For much of the summer, that dispute took the form of a
border
standoff where Bhutan, Tibet, and the Indian state of Sikkim meet.
He would also build his promised US-Mexico
border
wall; deport millions of undocumented workers; restrict H1B visas for the skilled workers needed in the tech sector; and fully repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which would leave millions of people without health insurance.
Trump probably will build his wall on the Mexican border, even though fewer new immigrants are arriving than in the past.
This includes providing Turkey and other “frontline” countries enough financial support to allow the refugees living there to work and send their children to school; creating a common EU asylum agency and
border
force; addressing the humanitarian chaos in Greece; and establishing common standards across the EU for receiving and integrating refugees.
Already, motor-vehicle manufacturers ship an automotive transmission back and forth across the US-Mexican
border
several times in the course of production.
That is my hope, though it may
border
on wishful thinking.
Trade times and costs are unnaturally high due to unintegrated and lengthy
border
procedures, high tariff rates, corruption, and underinvestment in transport infrastructure.
These costs could be halved by better customs,
border
and transit management, improved transport corridors and more competitive transport services.
While illicit drugs are moved through all Central Asian countries, Tajikistan bears the brunt of the scourge due to its location at the northern
border
of Afghanistan.
With thousands of artillery tubes hidden in tunnels near the border, North Korea can threaten to wreak havoc on Seoul, South Korea’s nearby capital, by conventional means.
China does not like Kim, but it does not want chaos – or Americans – on its
border.
And proposals for a
border
adjustment tax have been all but forgotten.
The
border
wall that Trump was going to force Mexico to pay for remains an unfunded dream.
But other security challenges – including the presence of mercenaries on the Liberian-Ivorian border, a rise in mob justice, and the potential for unrest tied to next year’s presidential election – risk overshadowing the issue.
Amphetamine drugs produced in eastern Burma seem to be transported with such ease that significant quantities have been found in northeast India, on Burma’s western
border.
It is scandalous that drug lords enjoy more freedom to operate than aid agencies, while basic access to food, education, and health care suffers many restrictions, with up to 70% of Burma’s children are chronically malnourished in some
border
areas.
Turkey is already enforcing a punitive economic embargo on Armenia, including closure of its
border.
Iran also must be factored into this equation, as it is becoming a strategic investor by building an oil refinery just across its
border
in Armenia, partly as a security measure in case of a US attack and partly to relieve its petrol shortages.
And such potential bloodshed on Russia’s
border
may give Vladimir Putin the pretext he may desire to extend his rule beyond its constitutionally mandated end next March.
But in the real world, how consistent is it possible to be in responding to genocide and other mass atrocities, treaty breaches,
border
violations, or other serious trespasses against international law?
Just like that, the
border
between them was little more than a line on the map: there were no barriers, customs posts, or other divisive symbols to show where one country ended and the other began.
The ongoing Brexit negotiations are complicating matters further, as nobody seems to know how to deal with the consequences for Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, which will be divided by the UK’s
border
with the EU.
While many politicians say they want a frictionless border, May and some of her colleagues have discussed leaving both the single market and the customs union, thereby putting the UK outside the tariff-free zone in which trade is facilitated by shared regulations.
This leaves two possibilities: either a frictionless trade regime that operates throughout the British Isles, or a hard
border
across Ireland.
The reintroduction of a hard
border
in Ireland would be devastating, as it could undermine the Good Friday Agreement.
Paradoxically, US presidential candidate Donald Trump has managed to excite support for his absurd plan to build a wall on the
border
with Mexico at the very moment when net migration from Mexico is turning negative.
Although China clearly instigated the bloody
border
clashes, America sided with Mao’s regime.
China fears not only the social and economic consequences of a North Korean implosion, but also the strategic consequences of reunification – in particular, that the US military, through its alliance with South Korea, would gain access to territory on its
border.
Economically,
border
controls act just like taxes; they distort activity, by increasing transaction costs and reducing cross-border flows of goods and services.
That does not mean, of course, that the single market cannot work with
border
controls or multiple currencies.
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