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But, because each has played on these tensions, particularly with Japan, in order to control their domestic opponents, achieving this necessary respite may prove difficult.
Park, too, has sent signals that she may want to ease tensions.
In February, they announced their intention to work together on climate policy – a marked contrast to Sino-US tensions over Pacific security and trade issues.
It could also help to ease territorial tensions between China and its immediate neighbors.
Finally, the 1992 agreement authorizes only monitoring of internal tensions, not massive use of military force.
The 2003 Iraq War exacerbated Sunni-Shia tensions and removed a critical barrier to Iranian ambitions.
Because Korea remains the world's most heavily armed flash point and with the risk of nuclear weapons and missile proliferation still high in North Korea, the whole world may benefit from a loosening of tensions.
Tensions among member states seem to be rising, perhaps because the problem differs so greatly across countries.
It would show that, with a strong economy, active civil society, and the rule of secular law, religious differences, cultural tensions, and labor-market challenges can be overcome.
Macedonia’s Man of PeaceDENVER – Angelina Jolie’s new film, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” is about the ethnic tensions that produced the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.
The first is alleviation of growing social tensions.
He and Premier Wen Jiabao have also championed a more “harmonious” society, because they understand that the growing wealth gap, social tensions, environmental and public health problems, and the Party’s tenuous relationship with China’s less advantaged people can no longer be neglected.
They do leave bruises and generate tensions that are bound to undermine the confidence and frankness with which individuals interrelate, which can sometimes impede effective cooperative decision-making.
As we have seen in the recent past, protracted tensions – for example, the territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in 2012 – can severely damage economic and diplomatic relations.
Indeed, escalating tensions in the Middle East – particularly Iran’s nuclear ambition – is likely to incline the US to overlook Russia’s diplomatic prickliness even more.
Chinese President Xi Jinping seems eager to ease tensions, exemplified by his recent pledge to lower tariffs on imported American cars “significantly” and further open China’s financial-services sector.
With South Korea, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina permanently exempted from US tariffs on steel and aluminum, and with certain measures applied only to final goods and primary products, the impact of rising Sino-American trade tensions has so far been limited.
A byproduct of China’s spectacular growth has been rising economic tensions with other countries.
Apparently unfazed by disappointing growth in both advanced and emerging economies, or by surging geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, equity markets have set record after record this year.
This is particularly true in Ukraine, where, despite the current ceasefire, Russia and the West have yet to find a way to ease tensions definitively.
Apart from tensions within the Ukrainian government, the main reason is the country’s dire financial situation.
All of these issues test the region’s ability to manage peace and mitigate tensions between its main powers – and thus underscore the concern that Hatoyama and Rudd raised.
And tensions between Israel and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program – not to mention Israel’s decades-old conflict with Palestine – are exacerbating instability in the Middle East, where ten countries, taken together, have become the world’s largest market for weapons, purchasing more new arms annually than China.
SHANGHAI – On the face of it, China and the United States both look as though they would be relatively insulated if trade tensions continue to escalate.
A survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China reinforces concerns about the impact of escalating trade tensions on foreign investment.
None of this bodes well for Europe, which will be directly affected by an escalation of tensions in the region, owing to its geographic proximity and historic obligations to Israel.
A reduction of tensions with Greece would improve Turkey’s image in the West and could give new momentum to its stalled bid for EU membership.
Notions of what is right and wrong often collapse under the irreconcilable tensions between tradition and modernity, the individual and the community.
Global-governance institutions are facing many challenges: slowing economic growth, volatile financial markets, falling commodity prices, emerging-economy risks (especially in China), refugee and migrant waves, geopolitical tensions, rising inequality and social fragmentation, and the threat of violent extremism.
But the reality is that, as long as China feels free to maneuver without consequence, it will continue to do so, fueling tensions with its neighbors that could easily turn into all-out conflict, derailing Asia’s rise.
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