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If Moscow wants to play a larger role in the Pacific area, it must strengthen the economy of its seriously underpopulated Far East
region.
Today’s emerging Sino-Russian ties are serving as a catalyst for the rise of opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific
region
and, perhaps, a new Cold War -- something both Russian and Chinese leaders say they are against.
This likely outcome will further strengthen the view that the US is losing global influence to China, especially among observers in the Asia Pacific
region
who have watched Trump scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership and cease Obama’s strategic “pivot” to the
region.
Now, by dividing ASEAN, China has provided America with its best possible geopolitical opportunity in the
region.
And now policymakers must also devote more attention to the health-care workforce itself, to ensure that it is properly educated and trained for the challenges that await the
region.
If clinicians and health-care workers do not receive multidisciplinary training, they will be unequipped to recognize and address local public-health needs throughout the
region.
As a result, new universities, research institutions, and educational programs have attracted scholars and other professionals to the
region.
While the overall number of students studying public health is increasing, most come from outside the region, which will only intensify GCC countries’ current over-dependency on foreign workers.
Such partnerships are necessary for confronting the infectious and chronic diseases that threaten communities throughout the region, and they have the added benefit of providing entrepreneurial opportunities for the region’s youth.
The Middle East’s population will continue to grow; but whether the
region
will also grow in global importance as a hub for trade and economic development will depend in part on its governments’ ability to reform public-health education and practice.
region] must pursue not just more growth, but better growth,” which “is not merely a matter of economics,” Clinton said.
These leaders also agreed to fast-track the TPP initiative, and to consider opening it to other members – most importantly Japan, a late convert to the idea of a Pacific
region
free-trade agreement.
In short, the TPP’s core agenda will offer the
region
a “Doha Round-type” agreement that includes the social and environmental agenda that developing economies have been resisting within the WTO.
Going beyond the core, the cross-cutting issues include investor-friendly regulatory systems and policies that enable “innovative” or “employment-creating” small and medium-size enterprises to operate freely across borders within the TPP
region.
In short, the US has moved to bring together all of the economies in the
region
that are worried about China’s beggar-thy-neighbor trade and exchange-rate policies.
This is the second leg of America’s new “Pacific offensive,” aimed at offering nations in the
region
an alternative to excessive and rapidly growing dependence on a rising China.
The first leg of the offensive was the idea of the “Indo-Pacific” region, which Clinton developed a year ago and followed up this year with an essay called “America’s Pacific Century.”There, she defines the new
region
of US strategic engagement as “stretching from the Indian subcontinent to the western shores of the Americas.”
Europe and the US must be as supportive of democracy in the Mediterranean
region
as they are within Europe itself.
The first is development of a transport system — both railways and roads — that will connect the once disparate parts of the
region.
Tillerson Goes to AsiaDENVER – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent trip to Northeast Asia represented an important opportunity for Donald Trump’s administration to set out its strategy for that critical
region.
A similar letter, signed by CEE Bankwatch Network and 45 other environmental NGOs from across the region, had already been sent to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment and the European Union’s director at the EBRD.
This is to say nothing of the immediate threat posed by the ongoing military conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the Donbas
region
of eastern Ukraine.
Growth trends are even more pronounced in the Asia Pacific region, where readers in China and India are leading a return to traditional newspapers.
China’s expansionism in the region, Tillerson asserted, was “akin to Russia’s taking Crimea” from Ukraine – an implicit criticism of Obama for allowing the two developments.
Europe, whether it likes it or not, has taken on a new, strategic role in the
region.
But at the very moment when even slightest glance at the crisis-ridden
region
on Europe’s eastern flank – Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Middle East conflict, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, Islamic terrorism, emigration, and threats to Europe’s energy supplies – should make clear Turkey’s paramount importance to European security, Europe is reveling in its disinterest in the state of European-Turkish relations.
And its increasing assertiveness – most visibly in the East and South China Seas – continues to worry its smaller neighbors, who wish for a stronger US role in the
region.
China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and its One Belt, One Road initiative to establish modern transport and communications links throughout the
region
are steps in the right direction.
The US and Iran have been fighting proxy wars since 1979, and their ongoing conflict means that proxy wars will continue in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Caspian Sea region, as will trade and investment wars.
In many of the previous banking crises, it was a country or a
region
that was hit hard (Argentina, Japan, etc.).
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