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Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and then began supporting a grinding separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s Donbas
region.
Instead, it should strengthen the case for open dialogue and tough negotiation – precisely what has long been lacking in Western policy on the Ukraine crisis and toward the entirety of the post-Soviet Eurasian
region.
Decoupling did not occur in 2008, when exports accounted for about 45% of pan-Asian GDP (excluding Japan) and every emerging country in the
region
experienced a sharp contraction in growth as world trade plummeted.
Other countries in the region, including Yemen and some of the Gulf states, have experienced varying degrees of turmoil as well.
Hunger is widespread; indeed, poverty and inequality have fueled much of the popular mobilization in the
region.
Peace in this huge and strategically vital
region
– and thus in the world – can prevail only if its countries manage, despite their turmoil, to protect themselves from ideological extremes and political excesses.
If Islam, particularly in the Middle East, is on a similar trajectory, long-term instability in the
region
is all but assured.
Meanwhile, the oldest dispute in the
region
– the subject of a decades-long peace process that moves nowhere – continues to fester and worsen in Palestine and Israel.
Israel, frequently lauded in the US Congress as America’s most dependable ally in the region, is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The core of the brain's fear system is found in a
region
called the "amygdala".
This
region
receives information from all the senses and in turn controls the various networks that inspire the speeding heart, sweaty palms, wrenching stomach, muscle tension and hormonal floods that characterize being afraid.
Since President Barack Obama announced the pivot five years ago, the US has been attempting to bolster its forces and alliances in Asia, thereby reinforcing its strategic role in a
region
that China is increasingly attempting to dominate.
But the relentless sniping by its two most important Asian allies has blocked the kind of concrete cooperation needed to help it achieve its main goals, including ensuring a durable, long-term military presence in the
region.
As the underwriter of both Japan’s and South Korea’s national defense, the US simply cannot allow their historical animosities to impede action to address urgent threats in this critical
region.
In conjunction with its “one belt, one road” strategy and its creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s influence in the
region
will expand significantly as a result.
Local authorities in Yunnan province, however, are considering damming the Salween in the quake-prone upstream
region.
If Latin America does not change, it may increasingly look like Africa--a
region
of weak states with large informal economies and widespread poverty.
Second, because reform has not delivered prosperity, the
region
has grown sick of reform.
But with growth in China's coastal
region
running at possibly 15% per year, who can seriously doubt that in 15 years it will surpass Brazil?
And, as a newly released US Defense Department report shows, Pakistan – “China’s primary customer for conventional weapons” – is likely to host a Chinese naval hub intended to project power in the Indian Ocean
region.
President Xi Jinping’s first visit to Pakistan last year produced an agreement to construct a $46 billion “economic corridor” stretching from China’s restive Xinjiang
region
to Pakistan’s Chinese-built (and Chinese-run) Gwadar port.
As a development specialist working on the ground in the drylands, I know that no military solution can stabilize this vast
region
as long as people remain hungry, face famines, lack water, and are without livelihoods and hope.
As unrest mounted with these military retreats, offshore US forces monitored and intercepted jihadists who sought to enter Somalia, while Kenya and Ethiopia blocked the unrest from metastasizing across the
region.
The result is the stable
region
that the world sees today.
The withdrawal by all of these invading armies to the recognized international boundaries demonstrated that nationalist forces were dominant in the region, not communist solidarity.
I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no roots in our region, and that it will soon disappear.”
The European Union's highly touted "Lisbon Declaration" of a few years ago, which proclaimed that Europe would become the world's most competitive
region
by 2010, appears laughable to Americans, whose productivity gains seem to scale new heights constantly.
But the potential for Argentina and the
region
is tremendous.
Unhealthy, processed foods are more readily available now than ever before, and rising middle classes in China, India, and throughout the
region
can better afford them.
While recent reports indicate that growth in Asians’ fast-food consumption is slowing, the impact across the
region
is significant.
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