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Both the public and private sector throughout the
region
should take immediate measures to face up to this new competition and to work toward cooperative projects with the Chinese.
But China’s soaring growth, seen in contrast with stagnation in Latin America’s economies, has awakened governments and businessmen across the
region.
If Latin America fails to deal with its new competitor, the peoples of the
region
will lose jobs and opportunities to develop as they should.
The Balkan
region
remains sullen and politically divided, with Bosnia and Herzegovina unable to institute an effective central government and Serbia deeply jolted by the 1999 NATO bombing and the contentious independence of Kosovo in 2008, over its bitter opposition.
Hence, US troops, the CIA, drone missiles, or US-backed armies are engaged in fighting across a
region
stretching from the Sahel in West Africa, through Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond.
Why the EU has not become more engaged in the Western Balkans – a
region
where it can make all the difference by supporting economic and administrative modernization and infrastructure projects to link the
region
to the Union’s industrial centers – remains the secret of the European Commission and the member states.
Whether these exaggerated hopes should be traced to Obama’s inexperience or to hubris – or both – is a moot point: what is clear is that, after 18 months and numerous visits to the region, Mitchell was able to achieve only an agreement in principle by Israel and the Palestinians to start talking to each other.
She will grow up in a
region
beset by poverty, disease, war or famine.
As Iraqi and other Muslim intellectuals in the
region
often repeat: “Books are written in Egypt, printed in Lebanon, and read in Iraq.”
So, in Syria and the surrounding region, there is already a lost generation in the making: children who are now eight and nine and who have never been to school, children condemned to work as child laborers, and hundreds of girls forced into early marriages.
Their ties with the
region
are those of the diaspora.
So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor
region
with precious income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.
At the end of 2017, average public debt in the
region
was 57% of its GDP, an increase of 20 percentage points in just five years.
In much of the rest of the region, the required fiscal adjustment is more modest and can be achieved through steady increases in tax revenues.
It is time, I believe, for people in this
region
to perceive the state as a tool for the defense of their homes, and thus of a part of themselves.
The new republics of the region, face no concrete or visible enemy at present.
And that will not be forgotten in the region, in the UN, or among Germany’s friends.
It is naive to assume that the most populous EU member state could and should keep out of a crisis situation in a
region
with immediate manifold European and German security interests.
In a
region
increasingly dominated by Chinese power, he will be without Asian friends.
From 2004 to 2011 (excluding the crisis year of 2009), the
region
almost doubled its long-run average growth rate.
This has expanded the middle class (as measured by household income), which in turn has helped the
region
consolidate democracy.
The key to the effectiveness of these bilateral relationships is that they enjoy widespread support (and thus legitimacy) in the
region
as stabilizing arrangements.
America’s presence and bilateral partnerships are complementary to Asian states’ obsession with counter-dominance and non-interference in the
region.
Indeed, China’s strategists are frequently puzzled by the lack of “balancing” that takes place against the US in the
region.
People at the time appreciated that they were standing up to Israel in Lebanon and Gaza, and pushing back against aggressive American policies in the
region.
In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an armed enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the armed Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa
region.
Environmental activists who are currently battling to halt damming and flooding in the culturally and scenically renowned
region
of the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan are battling hydropower kingpin Li Xiaopeng, son of former Premier Li Peng.
These wars are inflicting heavy punishment on precisely those peoples who have held fully free and fair elections in the region, while eroding the legitimacy of Israel’s democracy.
The signal being sent is clear: it is preferable that Israel, the only state in the
region
that abides by the rule of law, be surrounded by authoritarian regimes where political outcomes are predictable than by democratic states where Islamists may well rise to power.
The efforts of reformist governments in the
region
to integrate such movements into the public sphere have been dealt a severe blow.
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