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The crisis was always about much more than Greece: a disorderly insolvency there would threaten to pull other economies on the EU’s southern periphery, including some very big ones, into the fiscal abyss, along with major European banks and insurers.
Meanwhile, the southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh account for roughly 22% of the population, but less than 12% of maternal deaths.
Likewise, Joinville is a southern Brazilian city settled in the late nineteenth century by relatively uneducated Germans.
Indeed, given extremist violence in Sri Lanka (Tamil Tigers), West Bengal (Naxalites), Bangladesh (Islamic fundamentalists), Southern Thailand (Islamic separatists), Java (Jemaah Islamiyah), and Basilan (Abu Sayyaf), the possibility that Al Qaeda and its satellites are plotting attacks elsewhere, especially against soft targets, poses a real danger to the region.
There are growing financial, trade, and migration links among southern African countries, as well as shared water, transport, electricity, and communication networks.
Reform of the Southern African Customs Union is long overdue.
Moreover, establishing an African grid would enable power from the Democratic Republic of Congo to be delivered to southern European countries such as Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
After all, if you walk along Tel Aviv’s beaches, the dramas of Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon seem so far away.
Yet Turkey now faces three foes on its southern border: Assad, ISIS, and nationalist Kurds.
A long-sought peace agreement was secured for the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
China and southern Africa have received growing international attention in recent years, but for very different reasons.
By contrast, southern Africa is beset with problems.
What implications does China’s emergence onto the global stage hold for southern Africa?
In theory, at least, China’s rapid growth, if it continues, offers southern Africa a highly promising economic opportunity, not least by underpinning commodity prices and thus boosting southern Africa’s terms of trade.
Although in South Africa, for example, imports of cheap Chinese manufactures have produced a large and widening bilateral trade deficit over the last decade, southern Africa as a whole stands to gain from the “minerals nexus.”
China’s manufacturing boom is fuelled by imported minerals, such as iron ore and chromium, which southern Africa possesses in abundance.
But China’s rise also holds risks for southern Africa.
Indeed, fears are growing that southern Africa will be condemned to the role of exporter of raw materials.
If the economic impact of China’s growing global importance on southern Africa is promising, but uncertain, what about the geopolitical implications?
Throughout southern Africa, lingering resentments associated with colonization fuel distrust of the major Western powers, which continue to control the key institutions so determinative of the region’s future, notably the IMF and the World Bank.
While China is not about to dominate these institutions, in southern Africa it is regarded as a potential counterweight to the US and the EU.
In particular, China’s G20 membership and its strong interest in securing greater access to developing markets confronts southern Africa’s association with the G90 coalition, which seeks to block progress in the WTO.
On balance, then southern Africa clearly stands to benefit economically from China’s emergence as a global power.
The OMT scheme amounts to free insurance against a default by southern eurozone countries, thereby subsidizing the return of private capital flows to places where they were squandered before.
The economic crisis in southern Europe stemmed from an inflationary credit bubble that resulted from the absence of interest-rate premiums, and that robbed the afflicted countries of their competitiveness.
Ringed in the north by the southern ridges of the Himalayas, to the east by foothills of dense teak forests, and to the west and south by the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, Burma’s geography has always shaped the country’s history and politics.
China, too, has endeavored for centuries to bind Burma to itself, mostly in search of a southern route to India and the Indian Ocean.
In recent decades, China took advantage of the international community’s shunning of Burma to secure its own strategic interests, building highways, railways, ports, and pipelines that connect southern and western China to the Indian Ocean.
Consider, for example, his repeated claims that the vague outcome of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un constitutes an end to the nuclear threat posed by Kim’s regime, or his blatant lie that Democrats, rather than his own policies, caused the forced separation of migrant children from their parents at the southern border with Mexico.
In exchange for more bilateral and multilateral financing, Russia now faces growing US military bases on its southern flank in Central Asia and the Caucasus, while NATO is poised to expand right up to our Western border.
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