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Another significant factor is regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran over hegemony in the Persian Gulf.
If these challenges become the cockpit of rivalry, allowing one side to seek advantage over the other, the world will a become less peaceful, less stable, and less prosperous place.
How long would it be before relations with China became a cockpit of transatlantic rivalry?
If partnership is replaced by rivalry and rivalry becomes hostility both Europe and America will be the losers.
But attempting such rivalry damages the partnership.
If instead of working Europe and North America exploit problems for their own purposes and make them a focus of rivalry and hostility, the rest of the world would be gravely disadvantaged.
Retrenchment and shutdowns at gold and platinum mines –as well as the expiration in June of wage agreements in the gold and coal industries – will almost certainly spark more labor unrest, especially considering the growing rivalry between the ANC-aligned National Union of Mineworkers and the more militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.
Against this background, efforts to tame the deep-seated Sunni-Shia rivalry (by, for example, improving relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran), though undoubtedly important, should not take priority over a strategy to address the sectarianism plaguing the Sunni belt.
Whether it involved absolute loyalty or murderous rivalry, traditional politics was rarely divorced from personal passion.
While their economic heft is drawing increasing international attention, their underlying strategic rivalry over issues ranging from land and water to geopolitical influence in other regions usually attracts less notice.
Fifty years later, tensions between India and China are rising again amid an intense geopolitical rivalry.
The larger strategic rivalry between the world’s largest autocracy and its biggest democracy has also sharpened, despite their fast-rising trade.
Far from helping to turn the page on old disputes, this commerce has been accompanied by greater Sino-Indian geopolitical rivalry and military tension.
So the objective in Sunnylands must be to lay the groundwork for rules that prevent the alleged Sino-American rivalry from boiling over.
Asia’s changing power dynamics are reflected in China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy, the new Japanese government’s demand for an “equal” relationship with the United States, and the sharpening Sino-Indian rivalry, which has led to renewed Himalayan border tensions.
For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.
Their strategic watchwords are national rivalry, balance, and hegemony – concepts that offer no solution for the future of the region’s nations and states.
Perhaps more important, it would force the US either to stop its China bashing or to admit that the underlying motivation is not economics, but geopolitical rivalry.
The deeper cause of recent estrangement and national rivalry has been German reunification, which disturbed the bilateral balance.
Indeed, a senior Indian official,speaking about tensions in the South China Sea, was recently quoted as saying: “You can’t assume that India-China maritime rivalry is inevitable.”
Of course, official relations between the two countries are marked by much political and economic competition - some of it healthy, some of it a possible harbinger of future strategic rivalry.
In their rivalry for leadership in promoting Asian regional cooperation, meanwhile, China has taken an early lead.
Of course, there is no assurance that today's expanded commerce will preclude eventual strategic rivalry, or succeed in erasing lingering wartime animosity.
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea have created deep divisions, and the intensifying geopolitical rivalry between the US and China poses a further threat to cohesion.
Can Europe promote fair play in international affairs, or must it accept a new game of great power rivalry as inevitable and throw itself into the fray?
A divisive transatlantic rivalry offers no ethical or political basis for an enlightened European approach.
The ideological and military confrontation that underlay it is gone, but the geopolitical rivalry that it entailed has returned to the fore.
As for the east, Russia, eager to regain influence over most of the former Soviet Union, is pursuing a cat-and-mouse rivalry with NATO, featuring repeated near-encroachment on airspace boundaries by Russian warplanes.
Anti-Islamic feelings run deep across Europe, reflecting 1,000 years of rivalry, war, and cultural clashes.
Indeed, from this point began the fatal rivalry between Japan and the US that culminated in Pearl Harbor.
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