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The northernmost region, Somaliland, situated strategically at the opening to the Red Sea and home to roughly 3.5 million of Somalia’s 10 million people, is more or less autonomous and stable.
Now the CPA is poised to face its most vital test: the South’s referendum on independence, scheduled for January 9.Whether or not a new state is born in one of the most strategically sensitive areas of the world is of utmost concern to Sudan’s neighbors and others.
The calamitous US military experience in Iraq has left it strategically diminished.
The Syrian track – requiring Israel’s withdrawal from the strategically vital Golan Heights and the evacuation of tens of thousand of settlers – is hampered not only by the Israeli leadership’s legitimacy deficit, but also by US opposition to the talks.
Meanwhile, the Chinese solution gave rise to nationalist fears that sovereign wealth funds might be abused to seize strategically vital businesses or whole sectors of an economy.
The mainland was simply too large and too important economically and strategically to alienate.
And it is total GDP that determines a country’s ability to spend on military power, to provide a strategically significant market for other countries’ exports, and to offer aid to other parts of the world.
On the night of April 15, a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) platoon stealthily intruded near the China-India-Pakistan tri-junction, established a camp 19 kilometers (12 miles) inside Indian-controlled territory, and presented India’s government with the potential loss of a strategically vital 750-square-kilometer high-altitude plateau.
Pakistan claims the Indian-controlled glacier, which, strategically wedged between the Pakistani- and Chinese-held parts of Kashmir, served as the world’s highest and coldest battleground (and one of the bloodiest) from the mid-1980’s until a cease-fire took effect in 2003.
By putting its considerable influence in the service of a cohesive, strategically focused foreign and security policy, Germany would simultaneously achieve two key objectives: a stronger and more capable EU and a more European Germany.
Yemen is strategically important, not only for Saudi Arabia, but for the world, because it is the only country on the Arabian Peninsula from which oil can reach the open seas without passing through a narrow strait – either the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal.
Turkmenistan’s Tentative OpeningASHGABAT – Turkmenistan, a country rich in natural gas and strategically located on the borders of Iran and Afghanistan, may be on the brink of transformation.
Given that Ukraine’s neutrality does not run counter to Russia’s interests, but continued sanctions do, the Kremlin would have no convincing reason to reject an outcome that keeps Ukraine strategically non-aligned, and instead continue supporting the rebels.
If Kiev's leadership ever attempts such a policy (which defies the vital interests of Ukraine, too), they would find their country isolated strategically because of the reabsorption of Belarus.
Pashtuns living in the strategically important south and east, together with Shi'a Muslim Hezaras, constitute some two-thirds of Afghanistan's population.
Alternatively, the rest of the G7 could align with the US, at the risk of antagonizing China and eventually being strategically demoted if Trump ultimately settles on a bilateral deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
China is not aiming for control of just a few shoals or other tiny outcroppings; it seeks to dominate the South and East China Seas strategically and corner maritime resources, including seabed minerals.
But what if Turkey were to abandon its European ambitions and align itself strategically with Russia or even Iran?
It would also be self-defeating strategically: the soft but intense power of the democratic values that the West claims to defend constitutes the most effective defense against Chinese influence operations.
This amounts to an alarming quest for control over a strategically crucial corridor through which $5.3 trillion in trade flows each year.
In this context, just one fatal Osprey crash could trigger powerful anti-US sentiment on a strategically important island.
So, too, has the Pakistani defense minister’s disclosure that his country recently asked China to start building a naval base at its strategically positioned port of Gwadar, on the Arabian Sea.
Under President Bush, the US has taken robust stands on human rights conditions not only in pariah countries such as Burma, Cuba, and Syria, but also in strategically important countries like Egypt, Uzbekistan, and China.
Of course, France is not America; it is, for one thing, less strategically important to the world.
But France is strategically vital to the EU.
Moreover, because Turkey borders on such countries as Iran, Iraq and Syria, it will bring to the EU a disturbing neighborhood: a part of the world incapable of developing a regional order on its own, a cockpit of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, a collection of fragile states imbued with nationalism, a field of competition for arms, even nuclear arms, a region where the US will remain strategically involved and where Israel will continue to provide a rallying point for anti-Western sentiments.
Rather than react blindly, as Carter did, it would be better to follow Nemeth’s lead and think strategically about aims and means.
Putin seems to think that he has been using the strategically incompetent Trump to advance his ends.
First, despite enjoying greater political inclusion than the Habsburg Slavs, many Central Europeans see themselves as lacking equal standing with the EU-15, both economically and strategically.
However, over-reliance on Russia for a strategically vital commodity widens the divergence of interests between members, like Germany, that share a privileged partnership with Russia, and those, like Poland, that consider the Kremlin a threat.
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