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Now, in Syria’s carnage, Turkey is facing a critical test of its regional and global aspirations.
The Problem With a Small EuropeNEW YORK – News headlines notwithstanding, the fundamental challenge facing Europe today extends far beyond Greece.
The final challenge facing Spain is government debt, which currently amounts to nearly 100% of GDP.
And, with Americans facing a debt overhang, rapidly increasing unemployment (and the worst unemployment compensation system among major industrial countries), and falling asset prices, they are likely to save much of the tax cut.
America’s failures provide important lessons to countries around the world, which are or will be facing increasing problems with their banks:- Delaying bank restructuring is costly, in terms of both the eventual bailout costs and the damage to the overall economy in the interim.
As a result, Israel, embattled and facing a gathering storm of regional threats, had to find its own way to talk, without the diplomatic assistance of its big brother.
China is facing increasing pressure (particularly from the US) to assume a global political role that corresponds to its economic weight.
Designing and implementing a strategy that constrains Putin’s revisionist behavior, while ensuring Russia’s long-term international engagement, is one of the most important challenges facing the US and its allies today.
Indeed, some countries are facing a political upheaval.
After all, none of the problems that Europe is or will be facing can be solved more easily alone and at the national level than within the EU and through the framework of a supranational political community.
But if, as current indicators suggest, Europe is facing an economic slowdown, the pre-election discourse could change significantly.
The persistent weakening of the eurozone economy – even in Germany, GDP contracted in the third quarter of 2018 – does not bode well for the EU, which could be facing twin political and economic crises.
India is facing severe difficulties as well, but of a different nature.
For this reason, the issues facing South Korean public opinion as it decides whether to help with food assistance are not easy; indeed, they could be quite wrenching.
This is a tragic mistake, one that results from a misunderstanding of the challenges facing Africa and of America’s responsibilities.
With the world already facing anemic growth and low levels of investment, any adequate damage-control plan must include prompt resolution of the new rules of the game for Britain and its relationship with the EU.
These countries have taken different approaches in facing up to the crimes of their past.
Turkey would be far better off facing up to the crimes of the past, as Germany has done.
It is no secret that Britain’s Ministry for Defense is facing a funding crisis.
African communities are facing similar shortfalls.
Many other African countries are facing similar energy-related issues.
It would help if Pakistan’s government – facing home-grown terrorists even as it exports terror to its neighbors – showed a little more willingness to join the quest for peace.
The decision by China’s State Council to ride roughshod over downstream countries’ concerns and proceed unilaterally shows that the main issue facing Asia is not readiness to accommodate China’s rise, but the need to persuade China’s leaders to institutionalize cooperation with neighboring countries.
By contrast, both the US and Japan are facing full employment with fiscal deficits higher than 3% of GDP – about 2-3 percentage points higher than those of the eurozone.
Restructuring the economy is perhaps the most urgent – and most difficult – challenge facing China’s leaders today.
Therefore, the San José event will replace a global outlook with a regional one, with a new panel of experts focusing on the biggest challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean.
Security is another challenge, with the world facing traditional and non-traditional threats.
The EU is facing up to its responsibilities as a major source of past emissions.
The most fundamental challenge facing China’s leaders, then, is to find a governance model that fulfills these demands while continuing to exclude electoral democracy.
With some vision, it would not be hard to see Iran and the US cooperating on many fronts, instead of facing off with threats of war.
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