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And the benefits will not be confined to Asia; as imports to the
region
increase, global trade imbalances will decline, improving the sustainability of economic growth worldwide.
Indeed, Asia’s growing middle class will transform a
region
known as a global manufacturing hub into a consumption powerhouse.
While all-out nuclear war may be less likely now, these arsenals – and the doctrines and operations attached to their deployment – threaten to inflict serious long-term damage on the global environment, which would be true even if their deployment were confined to one
region.
There is, moreover, still an important
region
where drug use has not contributed significantly to HIV infection rates: Africa.
As a role model for the region, it is especially important that Turkey should practice press freedom.
Syria’s internal conflict has now become a Sunni-Shia sectarian war that is spreading across the
region.
Netanyahu, always on the defensive, does not view Middle East turmoil as a trigger for a proactive strategy that would use a solution to the Palestinian problem as leverage for broader positive change in the
region.
America, burdened by the cost of its Middle East troubles, eager to refocus on Asia, and no longer in need of Arab oil, can allow itself to leave the
region
to its destiny.
Israel is part of the
region
and has a strong interest in helping to shape its future.
America’s Middle East ChallengesDENVER – The potential gains from reorienting American foreign policy toward the Asia-Pacific
region
were fully evident in November.
But Iran has also fueled sectarianism in the
region.
For starters, youth-focused policies and interventions are limited across the
region.
China’s new armaments, together with the North Korean crisis, will probably force half a dozen countries in the
region
to renew their armed forces.
A rising China, a resurgent Japan, an assertive Russia, and an anachronistic North Korea have added new complexities and uncertainties to the
region.
The semblance of peace on the Korean Peninsula remains fragile, and South Korea’s government has engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to rally friends and partners in the
region
and worldwide to deter the North.
In 2012, militant leaders in the
region
banned immunization programs over concerns that they were being used to gather intelligence for drone attacks by the United States.
That changed in the summer of 2014, when the Pakistan military brought large areas of the
region
under government control.
Putting Asia’s Savings to Work in AsiaHONG KONG – For more than three decades, Asia has experienced faster economic growth than any other
region.
Why don’t Asian countries invest their savings within their own
region?
As a result, the
region
has been made hostage to volatility in capital flows, exchange rates, and interest rates.
The problem is that, two decades after the Asian financial crisis, there has been little progress in institutionalizing Asian financial intermediaries that will channel savings to high-return projects within the
region.
Such policies will push Asian investment further into the dollar trap, because Asian savings will be used to chase speculative dollar-denominated assets outside the region, instead of to meet Asia’s own needs.
Mugabe’s triumph comes at a huge cost to democracy and stability in Zimbabwe, as well as in the
region.
Yet the mantle of a regional power sometimes requires using that leverage for the greater good of the
region.
South Africa must tap into the growing concern among Zimbabwe’s neighbors (Angola, Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia) about the political crisis, and forge a united front within the SADC that sends a clear message to Mugabe and his generals that the
region
will no longer tolerate their actions.
The SADC’s censure of Mugabe and his regime should be backed up by concrete actions, such as restrictions on all arms flows to Zimbabwe, travel restrictions on senior officials of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, and the threat of property seizures and the freezing of financial assets in the
region
and beyond.
Indeed, in the very week that Putin was meddling in Ukraine’s presidential election, he was threatening to blockade one of those statelets, Georgia’s Abkhazia region, after it had the temerity to vote for a president the Kremlin did not like.
These are people who have fled violence in Sudan’s Darfur
region
to the east of Chad, a shattering civil war in the Central African Republic to its south, and the escalating terror of Boko Haram in Nigeria and neighboring countries to the west.
To make matters worse, Chad is in the Sahel region, which has suffered acute famine over the last few years, and declining oil prices have hit the regional economic outlook.
In the Lake Chad region, which is host to the most recent wave of arrivals, more than 60% of children are out of school.
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