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Instead of working together to help their American ally confront the challenges posed by a rising China and the North Korean nuclear threat, South Korea and Japan have allowed their rancor to stymie effective action.
My question focused not on Islamist terrorism – the ostensible ground of Trump’s outburst – but on the threat posed by large-scale Muslim immigration to the code of morals that my young friends, like most educated Europeans, now accept without question.
After WWII Germany and Japan were the defeated aggressors, the Soviet Union posed a major threat, and China was engulfed in a civil war that would bring Mao's Communists to power.
If this were correct, the United States was right to wage war on Iraq on the basis of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The sources of uncertainty are many: tension between South and North Korea; anxiety over nuclear proliferation posed by cooperation between North Korea and Iran; managing the rise of China and India; and continued Islamist extremism on the Indian sub-continent, particularly Pakistan, as well as in Southeast Asia, where Al-Qaeda has established a second front through Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah .
Europe at WarNEW YORK – By invading Ukraine in 2014, President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has posed a fundamental challenge to the values and principles on which the European Union was founded, and to the rules-based system that has kept the peace in Europe since 1945.
Europe is fortunate that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has behaved as a true European with regard to the threat posed by Russia.
Marine debris causes the death by drowning, suffocation, or starvation of some one million seabirds and around 100,000 marine mammals (seals, whales, and dolphins) every year, not to mention the hazard posed to shipping by sea junk.
As with the other challenges posed by population growth, the issue is not whether the future can be managed, but whether it will be.
The example posed by the Baltic nations does not threaten the Kremlin much, because they are perceived as foreign to the Russian psyche.
America's Securities and Exchange Commission's head recognized the problems posed by conflicts of interests in accounting, but his efforts to put in place rules to address the problem met with overwhelming resistance from the industry--until the scandals made change irresistible.
Neither of the two political blocs now vying for power in the West even wants it to be posed.
Chinese officials see little difference between the cyber threat posed by the NSA and that posed by the PLA, especially given that America’s cyber intrusions have also been aimed at foreign companies, trade negotiators, and international leaders – all of whom are directly or indirectly engaged in commercial activity.
Such reports have shone a spotlight on the threat posed by NCDs in LMICs – a spotlight that other developments have made even brighter.
Israel’s Missing Peace OffensiveTEL AVIV – Even before the latest cease-fire took hold, it had become clear that the dilemma facing Israel in Gaza entails more than simply developing military answers to the challenge posed by Hamas.
The challenge posed by Japan’s declining population is well known.
By contrast, the threats posed by divided government could be greater than mere parliamentary rumbles.
But the threat posed by Russia extends far beyond Ukraine.
For example, the current story in Colombia appears to be that the country’s government, now under the well-regarded management of President Juan Manuel Santos, has brought down inflation and interest rates to developed-country levels, while all but eliminating the threat posed by the FARC rebels, thereby injecting new vitality into the Colombian economy.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
The Rise of the Attention EconomyMOSCOW – I was recently posed the following question: “The most important way in which the Internet and online social media are changing our world is [fill in the blank].”
Despite populist speeches about the threat posed by “Polish plumbers,” net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.
In both cases, the particular dangers posed by today’s right-wing populism are underrated or ignored.
Entry into the political structures of the regime posed the risk that, in time, the process would "suck us in."
The opposition posed by this newly empowered political constituency could be decisive.
Given the risks posed by an unpredictable US president, South Koreans’ unease is easy to understand.
That question was posed to me by a number of financial and political leaders at the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, and was heard again a few days later at the annual Munich Security Conference.
Its senior leadership has said nothing about the serious threat posed by the actions of the US or of other major players.
The sanctions imposed on Iran are starting to weigh heavily on its economy, and a settlement to the dispute is a prerequisite for any effort by the two countries to cooperate on a peace deal in Syria or to address the threat posed by the Islamic State.
Its malaise has raised questions about whether its democratic capitalism will survive the economic challenge posed by authoritarian and quasi-authoritarian regimes.
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