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Political and economic pressure would lead more Japanese sectors to undergo the transformation to machine-intensive, high-productivity modes of organization that export-oriented manufacturing had already undergone (and that sectors like agriculture and distribution had undergone or were undergoing in the North Atlantic region).
Although Phailin did claim 45 lives, a storm of similar magnitude that hit the same
region
14 years earlier killed 10,000 people.
Instead, the US concentrated its drone strikes in Pakistan’s Waziristan region, allowing the Taliban leaders to remain ensconced.
Just how weakened America is in the
region
matters.
Indeed, across the region, apprehension is growing that when foreign troops leave, Afghanistan will again descend into civil war, ultimately bringing the Taliban back to power.
That is why “bringing the troops home early” has become the prime objective of Western politicians who are engaged in the
region.
With the US withdrawal, turmoil is bound to reemerge, and the entire
region
will again bear the consequences.
But Russia didn’t stop with Crimea; since then, it has waged a low-intensity unconventional war against Ukraine in the country’s eastern Donbas
region.
Will all this deal-making sideline the
region
in the WTO?
China views FTAs as a means to exercise strategic leadership in the
region.
Ultimately, as a
region
highly dependent on trade with and inward investment from the rest of the world, FTAs are not enough for East Asia.
The
region
will continue to have a long-term stake in a WTO that delivers freer trade worldwide, that is, multilaterally rather than bilaterally or regionally.
Of the twenty or so active developing and newly developed countries in the WTO, almost half come from the
region.
Only a rapid change of course by the Obama administration in 2013 can begin to counteract the enmity toward the US that has been generated by more than a decade of its forces’ lethal presence in the
region.
It is the story of a
region
undergoing a renaissance in which people’s minds are re-opened and their outlook refreshed.
They will need quickly to face up to the reality that in order to pursue US interests in the region, including stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan, the current standoff with Iran cannot continue, and that a greater degree of cooperation is unavoidable.
But what the Arab
region
needs are micro-oriented, project-based, and governance-heavy investments conditioned on deep reform of a business environment that is generally considered among the worst in the world.
Excessive red tape and ineffective enforcement of competition policy and governance rules are hampering entrepreneurship throughout the
region.
We saw this recently when the EBRD, together with the British-based organization Forward Thinking, conducted a closed-door workshop for 27 leading representatives of parties from across the political spectrum in the
region.
But the
region
can look to the successful transition in Central Europe and the powerful anchor for reforms provided by these countries’ accession to the European Union.
Public-health authorities throughout the
region
were providing actionable, up-to-date parasitological data, and taking clear steps to address the problem.
Fortunately, at a high-level meeting last December in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, delegates from all six GMS countries explored ways to accelerate malaria reduction in the
region.
In another arena, peace negotiations, the recent ceasefire agreement in Ukraine is but the latest attempt to end the war between the country's government and Russian-backed separatists that has been raging for much of the past year in the eastern Donbas
region.
Sri Lanka’s Chinese ElectionNEW DELHI – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election this month promises to shape not only the country’s political future, but also geopolitics in the wider Indian Ocean region, a global center of trade and energy flows that accounts for half of the world’s container traffic and 70% of its petroleum shipments.
The maritime Silk Road is not just a trade initiative; it will also provide several access points for China’s navy in the Indian Ocean region, through accords for refueling, replenishment, crew rest, and maintenance.
Despite their ideological differences, governments throughout the
region
have delivered rapid economic growth and improved their populations’ livelihoods.
While conservatism may claim a majority of the “Arab street” (and the Persian street), this does not mean that violence and terrorism will inevitably rule the
region.
But, while many Japanese feel (with some justification) that South Korea and, in particular, China, exploit the Yasukuni issue to reduce Japan’s influence in the
region
and to pander to their publics’ strong nationalism, they are missing the point.
But the country now is isolated, which affects the whole fabric of stability in the
region.
Japan’s diplomatic isolation strengthens those in the Chinese leadership who have long sought to marginalize what is economically and militarily still Asia’s most powerful nation, while sucking other states in the
region
deeper into China’s shadow.
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