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Possible subjects for that commission's agenda include: financial, fiscal and customs harmonization; transport infrastructure; natural resources and regional development.
Will China act as the regional stabilizer it so often proclaims itself to be?President Xi Jinping is being tested in this crisis as much as Trump and Kim.
Similarly, how will the convention’s implementation affect existing regional and local cross-border freshwater agreements?
The reemergence of China as a major regional and even world power certainly poses profound challenges to the US-led international order that was created after World War II.
Instead of turning to the state’s two regional parties – one headed by a former prime minister of India, the other by a former chief minister – Karnataka’s voters sought refuge in the tested Congress, enabling it to secure a firm majority in the state assembly.
The highest priority should be judicial reforms, which will help these societies internalize the rule of law, and regional reconciliation, without which there can be no progress toward accession.
Worse, the Obama administration found itself in the position of trying to block Chinese efforts to create a regional financial institution after the US itself was unable to deliver on promises to give China and other major emerging economies a greater say in the governance of the International Monetary Fund.
Unless the Western victors of World War II can update the rules and institutions that underpinned the post-war international order, they will find themselves in a world with multiple competing regional orders and even dueling multilateral institutions.
Developing-country governments will be only too pleased to borrow without the pesky conditions that the World Bank and existing regional development banks typically attach to their loans.
The US government, however, endorsed the justice’s illegal removal, seeing the court’s insistence on constitutional accountability for Musharraf as complicating its regional objectives.
As the only regional platform that brings all of the key stakeholders to the table, the OSCE plays a vital role in keeping the lines of communication open and finding opportunities for joint action.
But if a ceasefire has not been achieved in the next three months, the US should work with regional organizations and all friends of the Syrian people to authorize a set of military strikes on Al Qaeda-linked forces and on the killing machine that Assad’s government has aimed at civilians.
And nothing makes them more anxious than their fear that a regional dispute might, if not brought to an end quickly, steamroll into national disintegration.
The government’s failure to eradicate chronic regional tension underscores the limits of central authority in China, which was partly intentional.
Keen to prevent any coalescence of regional identity and local authority, senior officers in China’s seven military districts also are rotated regularly.
Another precaution taken by the central government is to shape the military districts so that they do not overlap with natural regional or economic divisions.
But it also reflects the Chinese government’s constant fear that regional tensions may lead to national fragmentation.
Much, then, depends on the Chinese, whose self-defeating regional diplomacy has managed to push a listless and defense-shy Japanese government into closer cooperation with the US on security matters, and has inspired South Korea to seek out strategic partnerships with other Asian powers, including India.
And China is keen to draw South Korea closer in the game of regional rivalries.
The result could be a new round of efforts by China to manipulate regional suspicion – or worse.
As if intellectual capture were not enough, the problem is exacerbated in the US by antiquated governance at the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks.
Regional Fed presidents are chosen by a board representing the local business community, in particular the local bank community.
That would be a regional and global nightmare, given the presence of nuclear weapons and terrorists.
The question now is whether Northeast Asia’s Big Three leaders can overcome old positions, shake hands, and get serious about regional diplomacy.
Although each regional crisis has been blamed on mismanagement by governments in the developing world, much of the blame -- perhaps most -- actually lies in the advanced countries.
This ensures that local and regional preferences are considered alongside the effects of eurozone-wide harmonization and economies of scale.
In Niger, pastoralists use mobile phones to keep abreast of commodity prices in regional markets, which enables them to sell their camels where prices are highest and purchase grains where prices are lowest.
Enrollment rates for the country’s children are now well below the regional average for sub-Saharan Africa.
With the US looking more toward Asia, where China’s unilateral assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea has jeopardized regional stability, it may become stretched too thin to provide a credible deterrent to Russian aggression, especially when it takes the form of unconventional, hybrid attacks.
Moreover, there already is a proliferation of regional development banks, from the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank to the more modestly capitalized African Development Bank.
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