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To be sure, the EU’s 2015 deal with Turkey, combined with the closure of the Balkan route in the spring of 2016, has reduced the number of refugees reaching the EU from the southeast to a mere trickle.
But the Turkish government also hopes to prevent the establishment of an independent Kurdistan that could project its influence into southeast Turkey.
Southeast Asian economies have demonstrated great success with state guidance, and, until the late 1990’s, there were calls in the United States to emulate their practices.
Here’s one fact to consider: the entire death toll from the Southeast Asian tsunami is matched each month by the number of worldwide casualties of HIV/AIDS.
Just as the nations of Western Europe exploited the Cold War stalemate to build the European Union, Asia must exploit the common interests that the United States, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and all the Southeast Asian countries have in securing a peaceful and stable Asia-Pacific.
That promise seems to have contributed to his electoral success, pointing to an unfortunate historical trend in Southeast Asian politics.
Similarly, dozens of South Americans and Africans play in Russian, Turkish, Polish, and various Southeast European leagues.
But statistics from the US National Science Foundation reveal a genuine drive to innovate across much of Asia, with East, South, and Southeast Asian countries together spending more on R&D than the US.
They share signage with military units; enjoy better housing than military personnel; run the food services; and import Southeast Asian workers to build the gigantic infrastructure, which was new when I visited in 2009 (calling into question the “deterioration” cited to justify the latest cash infusion).
Southeast Asian countries appear to be especially immune to the bane of severe mental illness; in other regions, poverty, or lack of development, seems to offer a protective barrier.
In recent years, China has been increasingly embroiled in a nineteenth-century-style dispute with several of its Southeast Asian neighbors over conflicting claims to the South China Sea.
Japan, for example, has close ties with Southeast Asian countries but no formal security relationships with them.
For example, the decline of the industrial areas in northeast China and the rise of modern, globally competitive manufacturing clusters in the Pearl and Yangtze River Deltas in southeast China are two sides of the same coin.
Market competition in China created both winners and losers, with the winners in the southeast taking entrepreneurs, talent, and other resources from the losers in the northeast.
In the span of just a few months, a population the size of Boston flooded into southeast Bangladesh, one of the poorest areas of a very poor country.
It is highly unlikely that China’s leaders are concerned that longstanding claims by Southeast Asian countries like Brunei could soon be realized, or that Chinese claims could be lost to history.
Hence, the hesitant response of Southeast Asian governments – and public opinion – to the Burmese disaster.
On one side, emerging-market countries like India, China, and the Southeast Asian economies, are experiencing robust growth.
By offering generous economic incentives to its Southeast Asian neighbors, it has weakened their will to confront China in a coalition.
They are places like Tianjin, a city southeast of Beijing with a GDP that is practically on par with Stockholm’s today – and could equal all of Sweden’s by 2025.
But even more important, collectively, for the US are Japan, South Korea, and the very non-Anglo Southeast Asian countries, especially Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, whom President Barack Obama just hosted at an unprecedented US-ASEAN summit in California.
Most Southeast Asian countries are busily modernizing their armed forces.
To do so, capital and technology will be needed not only from China, but also from Japan, South Korea, the US, and Southeast Asian countries.
At the ASEAN summit, the 10 Southeast Asian leaders met counterparts from China, Japan, and South Korea.
This could be built up to include other open Southeast Asian economies – Malaysia and Thailand – with the eventual aim being an APEC-wide agreement, which would be an impressive achievement if realized by the end of 2011, when it will be Obama’s turn to play host to all the leaders.
It also held its own in the predominantly Igbo southeast and the middle belt, home to several small ethnic groups.
The country’s mounting problems – rampant official corruption, decaying social and physical infrastructure, and growing ethnic and religious insurgencies in the northeast, central region, the southeast, and Niger Delta – are yet to be seriously tackled.
By contrast, London and the southeast have accounted for 26.8% of population, 37.7% of GVA, and 39% of new jobs.
In fact, since 2010, half of all new jobs were created in London, the southeast, and the east.
For example, a 2010 study in Vietnam found that commercial farming of the Southeast Asian porcupine, a popular meat source, had not dramatically reduced the hunting of wild porcupines.
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