Region
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In the Middle East – a
region
that, unlike Eastern Europe, has no landing strip – our support is essential to the construction of a new regional framework.
It could pick a fight with Japan or any other Western allies in the Asia-Pacific
region.
For the first time in recent decades, poverty rates fell in every
region.
Sub-Saharan Africa – the
region
with the highest under-five mortality rate – doubled its average reduction rate, from 1.2% annually in 1990-2000 to 2.4% in 2000-2010.
After all, ISIS has other footholds in the
region
as far away as the Maghreb.
In May, when he attended a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Riyadh, he praised Saudi Arabia as America’s top ally in the
region.
While China’s ability to maintain high growth through the “Lehman Shock” was a remarkable feat of economic management, three important changes in China hold geo-political implications for the
region
and the world.
So the future in Asia now appears to belong to China, whose economic growth supports that of neighboring countries – and whose mercantilism is prevailing in the
region.
America’s allies in the anti-Assad effort include Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and other countries in the
region.
The regime’s effort to turn its struggle for survival into an ethnic and sectarian conflict could wreak havoc across the region, starting with neighbors like Lebanon and Iraq.
Two other fundamental and inter-related security challenges in the
region
– the Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing danger of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) – also must be resolved in order to ensure that the Middle East’s historic transformation leads to security, stability, and prosperity.
The reference point for such an effort should be parallel implementation of the 2002 Arab Peace Plan, which addresses Israel’s security concerns, and a regional disarmament mechanism based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, adopted in 1991 to enable the elimination of WMDs from the entire
region.
This approach would enable a fair and lasting resolution of the Palestinian issue, which profoundly offends people’s sense of justice and causes instability and extremism, while eliminating tensions arising from the threat perceptions of Iran and other countries in the
region.
Europe and the international community have an opportunity to help the Mediterranean
region
to regain the prosperity and grandeur that it once had, and to turn the Middle East into a zone of peace, democracy, and stability.
Nonetheless, the regime’s possible rapprochement with the United States remains a source of concern in the Middle East, because it would empower Iran at a time when the US is gradually disengaging from the
region.
But, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, he squandered it, sticking to platitudes about the need for governments in the
region
to listen to their citizens and provide young people with “jobs and hope.”
When he said in Davos, “we cannot be indifferent to the pain and suffering of our fellow brethren in the region,” he might as well have been referring to the Assad regime and its partners in crime.
It should come as no surprise that the group known in the
region
as Daesh (the Islamic State) believes that it can find fertile ground for recruitment in this vast population of dispossessed and disaffected young people.
If troubled Lebanon, wracked by sectarian violence and religious divides, can champion coexistence and provide Syrian refugees with a chance to study, there is no reason other countries in the
region
should not follow its example.
In the area of Daulat Beg Oldie, near Depsang Plains, in the Ladakh
region
of Jammu and Kashmir, a patrol of about 15 People’s Liberation Army soldiers crossed into Indian-held territory and set up camp for an extended stay.
For India, Daulat Beg Oldie is an important outpost near the entrance to the Karakoram Pass and the Siachen Glacier
region.
The towering Karakoram Pass was part of the old silk route that connected Ladakh and Kashmir with Xinjiang – now, like Tibet, an “autonomous region” of China.
In the short term, they are a public assertion of women’s autonomy; after so much propaganda and brutality, many in the
region
no longer thought such behavior was possible.
Admittedly, the strategic conditions in the
region
are far more complex today than they were eight years ago, when Israel’s requirements for a deal with Syria focused mainly on security arrangements on the Golan Heights, and on Syria using its leverage in Lebanon to permit an Israeli settlement with that country.
In addition to exposing the flaws in conventional economic policies, the crisis and its aftermath accelerated the global rebalancing from the Atlantic to the Asia-Pacific region, while fueling political discontent and the rise of anti-establishment movements in the West.
In response, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seized all South Korean assets in the region, giving the 248 managers living there only a few hours to pack their personal belongings and leave.
The 2002 agreement to create the industrial
region
offered hope that the two countries could be brought together again.
The new paradigm dramatically changes the strategic calculus in the
region.
Peace in the region, and within Pakistan, depends on the answer to this question, which only Pakistani civil society – not the US, NATO, or any “surge” – can provide.
Countries that fail to implement the necessary reforms would become permanent pockets of poverty and dependency, much like Italy’s Mezzogiorno
region
today.
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