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Territorial and ethnic tensions between Russia and its new NATO neighbors could incite similar results.
Despite ongoing tensions, the Turkish government has been eager to mend relations with America, as it is anxious to have some influence over developments in Iraq.
The US, for its part, is unhappy with the government's objections to unrestricted American use of the Incirlik airbase in southeastern Turkey, as well as by recent tensions with Israel.
The uprising in Tibet, and the government’s response, have highlighted ethnic tensions within China that the Chinese government is having difficulty managing.
Declining remittances from overseas workers, shrinking trade flows and investment could undermine new businesses, throw thousands out of work, and increase tensions and instability.
Social tensions bubbling beneath the surface could well add fuel to the crisis of confidence.
This is a paradox intrinsic to democracy, and it is the duty of politicians to deal with the tensions to which it gives rise.
Given ongoing tensions with America, Iran is particularly concerned with the likelihood of a continuing US presence next door, as well as with America's dominant role in shaping Iraq's post-Saddam future.
This group could chart a course for US-China relations in 2017, identify potential conflicts, and recommend solutions before tensions can reach a boiling point.
All of this is complicated by escalating tensions between Europe and the United States, which, among other things, is spoiling cooperation to contain China.
China’s India Land GrabNEW DELHI – Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.
Each has its roots in longstanding ethnic tensions, exacerbated by economic and political underdevelopment.
Images of desperate people on the move – whether trying to cross the US-Mexico border or packed onto rickety boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea – have heightened tensions and forged a narrative that migration has no upside.
Instead, tensions are now likely to continue to fester.
Indeed, the main beneficiary of the current tensions among the Big Three is the region’s most reckless actor – North Korea.
Tensions are increasing from the Indus to the Nile and across North Africa, where any turmoil will have an immediate impact on European security.
With the United States, which has historically led the world toward trade liberalization, now actively stoking trade tensions, the meeting is set to be unlike any other.
The current tensions over free trade, rooted in the uneven distribution of its benefits, cannot be resolved within the WTO, let alone by a ministerial gathering.
Tensions are on the rise.
The struggle for water is heightening political tensions and exacerbating impacts on ecosystems.
Infrastructure projects like the Berlin to Baghdad railway roused tensions among the Great Powers.
At the same time, the maritime “road” through the Indian Ocean accentuates China’s already fraught rivalry with India, with tensions building over Chinese ports and roads through Pakistan.
There were genuine policy differences between the RBI and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, and tensions flared when officials perceived public comments by Rajan as being outside his domain.
But BJP cadres have been stoking communal tensions, most recently in Uttar Pradesh, a critical state that is due to hold elections next year.
As growing instability exacerbates social tensions, ethnic conflict, radicalization, and violent extremism become increasingly likely.
So, while loudly proclaiming the unity of the Chinese state, China’s leadership is obsessed with the country’s fragility, and works constantly to reduce tensions between its provinces.
But it also reflects the Chinese government’s constant fear that regional tensions may lead to national fragmentation.
But, by bringing its property-rights arrangements into line with those of the advanced economies, it can support shared prosperity and mutually beneficial engagement, potentially defusing some of the tensions that have lately been fueling instability worldwide.
And yet there is considerable reason to hope not only for formal handshakes and bilateral meetings among Northeast Asia’s “Big Three” leaders, but also for substantive discussions aimed at lowering tensions in the region.
Faced with these domestic concerns, all three leaders need a respite from the tensions that have bedeviled relations among their countries over the past three years.
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