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To keep the peace in both regions, a continuing US military presence of some kind will be needed.
Ethnic conflicts in outlying regions will also test Xi’s political control.
Leaders in both regions have declared their commitment to holding the rise in global temperature to below 2º Celsius and to achieving legally binding outcomes in Paris.
Together, the two regions represent nearly a third of the 195 parties that have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and account for roughly 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
This common sense of purpose is reflected in our regions’ policies.
But, at a time when concern about global warming among citizens in both regions is growing, this is no time for indecisiveness.
Debate on decentralization of the state has been dragging on for nine years without any government department displaying the willingness to transfer powers to regions or to municipalities without a fight.
In some regions of India and China where couples are anxious to have a son, selective abortion has been the ultimate form of sexism, and has been practiced to such an extent that a generation is coming of age in which males face a shortage of female partners.
In the past, regions or communities have achieved statehood almost exclusively after a struggle against colonial subjection and oppression, galvanized by an appeal to a distinctive religious, cultural, or ethnic identity.
In the run-up to the referendum, Scotland’s independence movement became an important point of reference for Catalans and Basques in Spain, the Flemish in Belgium, the Veneto and South Tyrol regions in Italy, Corsicans and Bretons in France, and the secessionists of Quebec.
Geographic information systems (GIS) allow for real-time monitoring across local governments and districts in far-flung regions.
Similarly, for Hitler, Czechoslovakia was an unnatural conglomeration of disparate nations and regions.
Moreover, because almost half of the parishes overseen by the Moscow Patriarchate are abroad – in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and other regions – Patriarch Alexy II lays increasing stress on the global character of his church.
In rural constituencies, opposition candidates defeated such EPRDF heavyweights as the ministers of defense, information, and infrastructure, along with the presidents of the two largest regions, Oromia and Amhara.
And the world regions involved then are involved again.
Today, the European Union is one of the world’s richest economic regions.
Spain after the Franco dictatorship stabilized itself by granting autonomy to its regions, which in many ways now behave like independent units.
The law was a watershed, because it simultaneously pacified violent regions, delivered justice for millions of dispossessed peasants, radically improved standards of living, and blunted the appeal of a guerrilla group that used the banner of land reform to justify its untold atrocities.
Such shifts give larger economies like the US and China a distinct advantage, while some economies and regions – particularly in Africa – face increasing marginalization.
Hundreds of millions more live in fragile habitats on the steep slopes of mountains, or in semi-deserts, or in rain-fed regions where crops fail regularly when rain doesn't arrive.
University students in the regions of the proposed dams have also become engaged through Internet chat groups.
But even in many countries in those regions, Chinese practices like importing labor for infrastructure projects are unpopular.
There can be little hope for sustained economic development where the educational system is at least one generation--and possibly three generations--behind other regions in terms of its commitment to universal literacy, and where higher education largely ignores the skills and subjects needed to enable people to master technology.
There is more room for innovation in education than in any other international-development sector, especially as digital technologies and the Internet become more accessible even in the world’s poorest regions.
There has been a “democratic recession,” as Fukuyama calls it, but it is concentrated in the more democratic regions of the world: Western Europe and North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe.
Given these regions’ importance to upholding the liberal world order, the rise of (white) ethnic nationalism has potentially serious consequences.
Reliance on mini-grids is expanding more slowly than in other world regions, with Africa being more likely to implement off-grid systems.
This helps to widen regional disparities, especially between eastern and western China, with the wealthiest regions being those that have benefited from high concentrations of FDI.
No one should realistically expect the renminbi’s exchange rate to be determined solely by the income level of the relatively prosperous eastern coastal regions.
But the surplus merely masks the structural problems of China’s domestic economic sectors and poorer regions.
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