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Will the country continue along its well-trodden path of price stability, or must it take a more free market route?
Or it can take the route of President Vladimir Putin's Russia, and develop a new revanchist strategy – in this case, to overturn the order that emerged from the Soviet Union's Cold War defeat.
Witness the migration of peoples and religions, or trade along the ancient silk route that connected medieval Europe and Asia.
China, the transit route for most of what goes enters and leaves North Korea, understands that were North Korea to cross this red line, it would risk US military reprisal and possibly lead Japan and/or South Korea to rethink their nuclear weapons policy.
Scheduled to be completed next year, it will also give Central Asian exporters a greatly shortened route to Europe.
And last year it joined with the Central Asian states, Japan, China, and Russia to discuss reviving the ancient Silk Road, the legendary trade route that once snaked across Asia to Europe.
And those pressures are powerful, as demonstrated by the tragic situation in the Mediterranean Sea, where more than a thousand refugees on the treacherous route from Africa to Europe died in the first four months of this year.
The second popular explanation of Putin’s shift is that he is irrational, and that Russia’s foreign policy is merely an extension of the fantasies of a man who stages stunts like leading Siberian white cranes along their migration route in a motorized hang glider.
In 2009-2015, Russia served as a critical supply route for US-led forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan; it even contributed military helicopters to the effort.
In pleading on behalf of British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, he points out that the UK economy grew by 2.6% last year (the “best performing of the G-7 economies”), but ignores the damage that Osborne inflicted on the economy en route to this recovery.
Moreover, the proposed truck route between the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon and the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas has not yet materialized because of Iran’s hesitation.
For example, Iran’s mullahs shut down the air route between Tehran and Antalya because it gave Iranians access to “sinful” leisure in Turkey, but it was replaced by a Tehran-Sparta route, which flies Iranians 140 kilometers away just making the trip slightly longer!
With no escape route, soldiers were highly motivated to win.
A carbon tax on international shipping and aviation set at the same level (or auction revenues from emissions caps, if that pricing route is followed) could generate $10 billion annually for international climate action from just 25-50% of the revenues, even after ensuring that costs borne by developing countries are covered.
This and other procedural considerations make antidumping the preferred route for firms to obtain protection from their foreign rivals when times are tough.
But, first, it must reject the temptingly easy – but ultimately damaging – route of raising taxes and doubling down on redistributive policies.
Moreover, a trade agreement with Afghanistan that allows Afghan goods to cross Pakistan en route to India may be one step towards an improvement of economic relations with that large and rapidly growing neighbor.
For this reason, when and if a serious dialogue commences, the spoilers will likely attempt to torpedo it by issuing belligerent rhetoric, targeting US soldiers and interests in Iraq or Afghanistan, or seeing to it that an arms shipment originating from Iran is “discovered” en route to south Lebanon or Gaza.
But, so far, they have not been willing to go this route.
The route to a constitution-like arrangement will be severe and complex.
Putin needs a win in Syria – and an escape route.
Exporting to the fastest-growing overseas markets is one obvious route to overcoming sluggish demand growth at home.
Its system of governance rests on the belief that an integrated process of bargaining, disagreement, reflection, and compromise – not top-down unchallenged decision-making – is the most effective route to wise, fair, and successful policymaking.
But, if citizens ratchet up the pressure on their leaders, and policymakers demonstrate vision and leadership, the route can be navigated.
The obvious escape route leads through economic growth, which would reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio and make interest payments look reasonable.
But had we followed that route, we would most likely have failed.
Mass migration gave millions of Europeans an escape route from poverty and persecution, and fed the dynamism and development of countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and various colonies.
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.
The ancient city of Kaesong sits in a shallow valley just to the west along the Demilitarized Zone, on a traditional invasion route for troops heading north or south during more than two millennia of Korean history.
At the same time, efforts are needed to strengthen deterrence near and en route to Europe’s borders, through partnerships with major source and transit countries.
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