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China is now expanding its strategic reach.
Thus, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-ruled Gulf states view Iran, the region’s Shia power, as their strategic nemesis.
A stunned India, already reeling under a crippling domestic political crisis, has groped for an effective response to China’s land-grab – the largest and most strategic real estate China has seized since it began pursuing a more muscular policy toward its neighbors.
But the latest crisis was sparked by China’s use of direct military means in a strategic border area close to the Karakoram Pass linking China to India.
The PLA intrusion, by threatening that Indian base, may have been intended to foreclose India’s ability to choke off supplies to Chinese troops and workers in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, where China has expanded its military footprint and strategic projects.
A possible military response could involve the Indian army establishing a camp of its own on Chinese territory elsewhere that China’s leaders regard as highly strategic.
The gradual improvement of its labor force in terms of skills and productivity, together with its relatively strong capacity to absorb high-value foreign investment, will drive economic development; and MNCs’ shift in strategic focus from Western markets to those in the Asia-Pacific region will transform the global value chain.
With rapid growth in the local market, China could become a leading source of global demand, a hub of high-level factors of production, and a strategic center, with the Shanghai free-trade zone at its core.
Governments may have strategic reasons to hold onto unprofitable assets, but investors who own shares in partly privatized state firms do not.
This difference stems above all from strategic considerations, but it probably also contains a cultural dimension.
For them, the US is above all the strategic counterweight needed to balance China.
In Singapore, ideological considerations reinforce strategic interests.
But, beyond strategic considerations, something else must be mentioned (with prudence).
It is a grave mistake to think of Russia, like the Ottoman Empire of a century ago, as a "sick man of Europe," incapable of maintaining its strategic and commercial interests, and to regard its traditional allies in the region as available for anyone to poach.
Less than a year later, the mission accomplished what no military intervention could have achieved; the strategic threat from Syria’s chemical weapons was effectively eliminated.
That is because the current drama is playing out in an extremely sensitive strategic location.
China, in particular, views the Korean Peninsula in terms of strategic security.
He spoke of an “immediate threat,” declared an end to former US President Barack Obama’s “policy of strategic patience,” and said that “all options are on the table” – including military action.
But with China, Japan, and South Korea due to meet at a time of growing tension among all three countries, the three leaders could have seized the moment to enhance strategic stability across Northeast Asia.
Some Japanese and Korean strategic thinkers believe that China is intent not only on displacing the US as Asia’s leading power, but also on economic domination of the region.
Nor should China’s continued rise, Korea’s eventual reunification, or Japan’s renaissance be regarded by the others as a strategic threat.
As long as China, Japan, and South Korea regard every encounter with one another as an opportunity to settle scores or gain some strategic advantage, brinkmanship will remain Northeast Asia’s fate.
By holding that American apartheid violated the constitutional command of "equal protection of the laws," the court struck a blow for justice at home and American strategic interests abroad.
Far too often, when it comes to dealing with foreign-policy crises and strategic challenges, EU institutions are assigned a minor role.
Such a strategic goal would provide justification for prudent fiscal and monetary policies, and, given Poles’ desire to consider themselves full Europeans, it would boost political support for such policies.
The strategic shocks of recent years have left deep and lasting wounds, and pushed Europe into new and uncharted waters.
Instead, it views the world as a zero-sum strategic competition in which the US should look out only for itself.
But, given China’s growing military might and the strategic importance of the Asia-Pacific region, the US will have no choice but to pivot to the East.
The issues facing the United States – the turmoil in Syria and the Middle East, Russia’s military assertiveness, and China’s emergence as both economic (and environmental) partner and strategic challenger – are simply too important to be ignored.
In a quest for economies of scale and a strategic repositioning of facilities in order to survive in a world of fast growing competitive pressures, globalization adds to the process of corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions.
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