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Disputes in the South China Sea involving China and five of its neighbors, and in southern Asia, are equally resource-driven.
It is planning to create a fund, backed 70% by Brazilian financial resources, that will be dedicated to projects such as rehabilitating roads in Uruguay and Paraguay in order to enhance its neighbors’ capacities and correct economic imbalances.
Much less will Brazil be able to demand from its neighbors a commitment to sustainable development.
Indeed, his partners – particularly the other BRICS countries (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) – are now unlikely to be able to turn a blind eye to his contempt for international law and for his neighbors’ national sovereignty, as they did during their recent Brazilian summit.
“However fixed our likes and dislikes may seem, the tide of time and events will often bring surprising changes in the relations between nations and neighbors.”
If we had the bomb, the relationships with all our neighbors would immediately deteriorate.”
If the IMF fireman remains idle, it is not because of a lack of fires, but because neighbors, rather than relying on the fire brigade, are protecting themselves.
Japan is not only economically and militarily capable; it is also willing to help its Southeast Asian neighbors, so that they, too, can contribute to maintaining the regional balance of power.
Trump’s stated goals in renegotiating NAFTA – if “renegotiation” is the right word for when a bully attacks his smaller neighbors until they accede to his demands – were to reduce the bilateral US trade deficits with Canada and Mexico and “bring good jobs back home.”
One would expect that, with the rising Iranian threat fostering tacit security cooperation between Israel and its more stable Arab neighbors (particularly Saudi Arabia), Netanyahu would aspire to resolve the Palestinian issue, thus removing the last obstacle to an overt strategic partnership.
Now, however, international acceptance of Iran as a nuclear-threshold state, together with the threat emanating from imploding Arab neighbors, flatly contradicts Netanyahu’s assumptions about the conditions that must be fulfilled for Israel to offer “painful concessions” to the Palestinians.
That does not mean Russian leaders are any closer to accepting NATO expansion as a major contribution to European and Russian security, or to establishing an institutionalized dialogue with the West that respects the sovereignty of Russia’s neighbors.
Like its neighbors, Congo and Rwanda, Burundi is a war-torn land.
But, unlike its neighbors, this year can mark a turning point for Burundi.
Japan has never learned to interact with its Asian neighbors the way that Germany after World War II learned to cooperate with its future European partners, partly because its apologies have appeared formalistic and half-hearted, when they have taken place at all.
And Germany today is able to distance itself – though clearly at the margin – from Israel’s current government because Germans fully confronted their past in ways that many of their neighbors have not.
This is a recipe for a police state – checking identities, raiding people’s houses, and encouraging neighbors to inform on one another.
Reinforcing its position further, China has strong-armed its neighbors into suspending the exploitation of natural resources within their own exclusive economic zones.
The US is rightly concerned about the negative impact of such pilgrimages on Japan’s relations with its neighbors, particularly China and South Korea.
Rethinking requires a new ideology, and, after one country has shown the right direction, neighbors often follow.
Small neighbors without options will suffer, but Europe may not.
Rather, Singapore’s leaders have consistently emphasized that the need to ensure that the most capable people are in charge is particularly pressing in a tiny city-state with a small population, limited resource base, and potentially hostile neighbors.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is not just a deeply networked organization; it has also been actively cultivating relationships with its Northeast Asian neighbors through a set of bilateral and multilateral agreements.
People of good will who want a real negotiated solution, with Israel and Palestine living peacefully as neighbors, simply don’t want to face the fact that any such deal is now decades away.
Relations between the North and its neighbors can improve, along with a greater probability of forming a Northeast Asia peace and security mechanism.
Russia and the EU would continue trying to consolidate their positions by competing for influence over their mutual neighbors.
Once Russia and the EU decide to consolidate their efforts, they would inevitably address their neighbors’ difficulties in the context of shared responsibility, not rivalry.
Saudi Arabia has two large concerns about the Islamic Republic: its quest for nuclear weapons and its interference in its neighbors’ affairs.
Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would only heighten Saudi Arabia’s second major concern: the Iranian government’s policy of destabilizing its neighbors.
Muslims in The Netherlands are responding by opening up their mosques and reaching out to neighbors.
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