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Respect for common values will reinforce progress towards a strategic partnership.”
Russia’s August 2008 invasion of Georgia produced a sterner variation: “No strategic partnership is possible if the values of democracy, respect for human rights, and the rule of law are not fully shared and respected.”
Indeed, “long term” must be the strategic starting point.
Fourteen US states have started to do that by authorizing so-called benefit corporations (or B Corps) – businesses that promise to consider more than shareholder value in their strategic decisions.
Even before the trawler incident, China was trying to regulate rare-earths, defining them as a strategic resource.
In nearly all strategic aspects of EU crisis management, Germany and France are blocking each other – although ironically, both are doing virtually the same thing.
If Germany and France don’t quickly resolve their differences and find a joint strategic answer to the crisis, they will damage themselves and Europe as a whole.
It has consolidated its control over the strategic corridor between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, through which one-third of global maritime trade – worth $5.3 trillion last year – passes.
As China takes a long-term strategic approach to strengthening its hold over the South China Sea (and, increasingly, beyond), the US is focused solely on the prospect of all-out war.
If open war is China’s only vulnerability in the South China Sea, the US will lose the larger strategic competition.
Yet the long-term strategic implications of what China has achieved in the South China Sea are far more serious.
And now China has begun making strategic inroads in the Indian Ocean and the East China Sea, threatening the interests of more countries, from India to Japan.
But they also had a strategic military value, because they enabled the Peruvian government to distinguish friends from enemies on the ground.
Its latest strategic plan calls for a self-sufficiency ratio of 45% by 2015 and focuses instead on “securing the stability of food imports” through diversification and free-trade agreements.
The Obama administration has for years been engaged in a strategic rebalancing toward Asia.
Add to that the threat posed by North Korea, and a destabilizing US strategic retreat from Asia remains highly unlikely.
Successful nuclear talks with Iran (in which I have been involved, as Foreign Minister and President, at various stages) would have major strategic, political, and economic consequences for the Middle East and the world.
Because such a mechanism would require a strong economic-cooperation dimension, encompassing energy and water issues, it would encourage long-term strategic thinking and anchor multilateral efforts to resolve problems as they arise.
It also largely removes incentives for both management and workers to engage in the kind of costly strategic behavior -- such as strikes and lockouts -- that sometimes characterizes labor relations in investor-owned firms.
Most policymakers and experts expected that, after an inevitably troublesome period of transition, Russia would join the United States and Europe in a strategic and economic partnership, based on shared interests and values.
The ideological and strategic rift between ISIS and Al Qaeda notwithstanding, an alliance against the common enemy – the incumbent Arab regimes and the West – cannot be entirely discounted.
By the time Putin finally realizes that he has been duped, the world will probably have paid a high price in terms of political stability, strategic security, and environmental damage.
If Putin's dangerous brinkmanship is to be stopped, Western leaders will need to find a way to initiate strategic cooperation with Russia.
The neighboring Middle East is in turmoil; the West is attempting to contain a newly aggressive Russia; and China, already the world’s largest source of savings, the largest trading country, and the largest overall economy (in terms of purchasing power parity), is confronting the West with new economic and strategic realities.
In a country with more than 45 million people under 35 years old, no political player with any strategic insight can afford a prolonged impasse.
China’s goal is to prevent ASEAN members from uniting against it and to diminish the role of international law in a region where it seeks strategic dominance.
New Moscow-Beijing Ties Worry AsiaTOKYO: The emerging "strategic partnership" between Russia and China, symbolized by President Jiang Jemin’s visit to Moscow in April, has significant implications for diplomacy and the military balance of power throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Few Russians may care to admit this, but a strategic partnership between China and Russia means, in effect, a growing Russian dependence upon China, with China increasingly using Russian-made arms to expand its own sphere of influence.
China’s ability to project military power at a longer range will, not long from now, enable Beijing to reach the U.S. bases in Okinawa, the strategic linchpin of the Western Pacific.
None of these outcomes is in China’s strategic interest.
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