Region
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For most countries in the region, Europe or the US remained larger trading partners than their immediate neighbors.
But, given his rock-bottom standing in the region, most countries would regard this as an additional incentive to join the new bloc.
Annual GDP growth is expected to remain above 4% in 2015, in a
region
where overall output is shrinking (by 0.3%, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest projections).
when the US Treasury and its IMF allies blamed that
region'
s problems on crony capitalism, lack of transparency, and poor corporate governance?
(Never mind that under the leadership of their own entrepreneurs East Asia grew faster than any other
region
- and with greater stability - over the previous three decades.)
One reason is the set of ill-designed development strategies that the IMF and the World Bank have implemented in the
region
for nearly half a century.
Fortunately, there is hope that the
region
can resist the West’s destructive neo-liberal agenda.
This would provide the
region
with the muscle to pursue a development strategy similar to that adopted in the past by the US, the European Union’s member states, and the East Asian countries.
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, for example, took seven years to hash out – and was almost scotched by the parliament of Belgium’s Wallonia
region.
The country is also intent on ensuring that the benefits of growth reach all of the population, regardless of
region
or income level.
Small Countries’ Big SuccessesZURICH – Scotland’s vote on independence from the United Kingdom has spurred widespread debate about the secession of small states, such as Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, or the independence drive today in Spain’s autonomous
region
of Catalonia.
Franciscan, Jesuit, and Dominican priests have been spreading the gospel in the
region
for centuries.
One
region
that is likely to start feeling tremors soon is Southeast Asia.
Obama also brought four ASEAN members into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a mega-regional trade deal that would promote US economic exchange with the
region.
Obama also helped to cement bilateral ties with most countries in the region, visiting nine out of ten during his two terms in office.
Aimed at helping the US to maintain its strategic primacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the policy has been quietly welcomed by most regional actors, as it dovetails with their desire to check China’s hegemonic ambitions in the
region.
But US relations with other countries in the
region
may stall, if not deteriorate, as confidence in Trump’s willingness to follow through on US commitments collapses.
Australia, India, and Japan – key US allies and security partners in the Asia-Pacific
region
– may also find it difficult to connect with Trump, further undermining faith in the US-led regional security architecture.
Although Trump has criticized China extensively for supposedly stealing American jobs – and even blamed it for creating the “hoax” of climate change – he may take a softer stance on Chinese strategic expansionism in the region, especially in the South China Sea, than Obama did.
If nothing else, Trump may resist the idea of China gaining strategic primacy in the
region.
That outlook sets Brazil apart in a
region
where politicians – from Argentina and Chile to Ecuador and Venezuela – often seem more concerned with handing out slices of natural-resource wealth than with creating new sources of prosperity.
Biden did not point to a specific
region
of the world, but mentioned the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, and Russia as the likeliest sources of trouble for the new president.
The Iran deal was a key element of President Barack Obama’s effort to extricate the US from the region, as it promised to neutralize one of the main sources of instability necessitating continued US attention.
In the short term, the strategic vacuum would be filled partly by Russia, which has already seized on America’s gradual withdrawal from the
region
to strengthen its foothold there.
To be sure, there is an alternative scenario: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey could reach a tacit (or even active) agreement regarding influence in the region, to the exclusion of outside parties.
But, given longstanding hostilities in the region, the emergence of such an order is far from guaranteed.
During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the renminbi’s stability played an important role in stabilizing the
region.
So, too, the renminbi’s stability has helped the
region
maintain strong growth, from which the world as a whole benefits.
But the US knows perfectly well that Al Qaeda is an enemy of convenience for Saleh and other American allies in the region, and that in many cases, terrorism has been used as a pretext to repress reform.
Still, robots are gaining a foothold in the region, particularly in economies such as China and South Korea.
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