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A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.
Much of the country’s current debt dates to the Cold War, when the world’s superpower rivalry played out in the Horn of Africa.
But, while these issues are important, both sides should pursue diplomatic efforts to minimize Sino-American rivalry over them – and thus avoid embarking on a new cold war.
But some observers will undoubtedly characterize it as yet another chapter in the great-power rivalry between Russia and the US.
Asia’s long history of rivalry and competition among its various powers has also been an important factor in its recent economic success.
Somalia’s Endless HellMOGADISHU -- Somalia’s internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry.
If, on the contrary, the Atlantic partnership disintegrates into rivalry or hostility, the world will become more dangerous.
This is just the latest manifestation of the deep-rooted rivalry between the two Middle Eastern powers.
For its part, China should be more sensitive to ASEAN member states’ security concerns, and act to turn the South China Sea into a haven for peace and prosperity, rather than an arena for tensions and rivalry.
The US and China Are the Closest of EnemiesBERLIN – There has long been talk that the strategic rivalry emerging between the United States and China in recent years could one day give way to confrontation.
Yet, despite the rivalry of nations and the bloodiness of modern warfare, democracy is spreading.
But even Germany’s Iron Chancellor had to watch as distrust, economic nationalism, and populism pulled the European powers into a downward spiral of trade wars and diplomatic rivalry.
Between 1914 and 1945, the pursuit of national grandeur led to ruinous economic rivalry and mass violence.
But, while Japan’s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades.
So the real issue is not whether the noises that Putin and Medvedev make suggest real divergence, and a potential for rivalry, but whether there is daylight at the end of the tandem.
But I also sit on the boards of Yandex in Russia, one of a small number of companies around the world who beat Google in their local markets, and of WPP, a worldwide advertising/marketing company famous for its rivalry with Google.
For only vigorous internal rivalry will make Spain’s companies nimble enough to prosper in risk-filled emerging economies.
China views Russia as its strategic rear – and perhaps a base – in its escalating rivalry with the US (though not yet as an ally).
During his visit, Trump emphasized the importance of the US-Saudi strategic relationship, offered his full support in Saudi Arabia’s rivalry with Iran for regional primacy, and signed various business and investment deals worth many billions of dollars.
It is also why there exists an “organic connection of India to Central Asia,” the key to that link lying in the Himalayas, which is where the India-China rivalry is currently focused.
Fortunately, at least for the present, this rivalry is far less emotional than India-Pakistan relations, having not been born of historical grievances.
That era of strategic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union gave way to one in which the US possessed far greater power than any other country and enjoyed an unprecedented degree of influence.
Unless it is very carefully managed by all concerned, including the United States and Japan’s other closest Asia-Pacific allies, Abe’s makeover of Japanese foreign policy could undermine the fragile power balances that have so far kept the Sino-American rivalry in check.
Whatever their other disagreements, Chinese and Japanese concur on one point: if Asia today, with its rising nationalist tensions, evokes Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, it is precisely because Asia has not embarked on a reconciliation process such as that which enabled France and Germany to transcend their centuries-old rivalry.
The drastic deterioration in Turkey’s relations with Israel is related to this emerging Iranian-Turkish rivalry.
To be sure, this rivalry also has a positive side from the Israeli point of view – the weakening of Iran and other regional radicals.
Similarly, Russia and the US need cooperation, not farcical rivalry, in developing new sea routes and possible energy deposits in the Arctic, and in interacting with China and other Asia-Pacific countries in joint development of the resource potential of Siberia and Russia’s Far East.
Tribal claims by Hutus against Tutsis (a rivalry long manipulated by Rwanda's colonial rulers) incited genocide and still scar neighboring Burundi.
The Sunni-Shia rivalry means that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries will concede no meaningful role to Iran.
And the open sore of the Israel-Palestine conflict plays into every other rivalry.
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