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Given the heightened tensions within the EU and between Europe and the US, Germany’s habitual defensive politics will no longer suffice.
But an easing of regional tensions – a process that could begin in meetings with US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and possibly progress to the resumption of talks with North Korea – would lead to recovery in consumer and business sentiment.
But, as these would-be radicals play politics with Japan’s national security, serious tensions are mounting in our region.
The consequences are multifaceted, involving immediate personal anguish, rising social and political tensions, economic losses, and budgetary pressures.
Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati’s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad’s overthrow has exacerbated the country’s own longstanding sectarian tensions.
Such a balanced and reciprocal approach would help to ease tensions over cross-border trade and investment.
In 2013, tensions peaked when China unilaterally declared an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering territories in the East China Sea that it claims, but Japan controls.
And if Trump continues to provoke China by communicating with Taiwan and questioning America’s “One China” policy, regional tensions will escalate.
Trump’s election and escalating regional tensions have created the perfect pretext for Abe to push for his ultimate political goal: to abolish Article 9 – the pacifist clause in Japan’s post-war, US-imposed constitution, which limits the Japanese military to a “self-defense force,” and has generally kept Japanese defense spending at 1% of GDP.
Such peaceful assurances, against the backdrop of growing tensions in East Asia, may or may not be enough to persuade Japanese voters that it is time to expand their country’s armed forces – 75 years after their great but fateful triumph in Pearl Harbor.
CAMBRIDGE – The economic recovery that the euro zone anticipates in 2010 could bring with it new tensions.
At this year’s CDF, tensions between the hegemon and the rising power were widely discussed, both in the formal sessions and on the sidelines.
For starters, tensions between several Southeast Asian countries and China are on the rise, owing partly to the fact that China, under President Xi Jinping (its most autocratic leader since Deng Xiaoping), has been acting increasingly assertively in staking its contested territorial claims in the region’s waters.
Already, as escalating trade tensions generate added uncertainty, nervous investors are edging toward the door.
In that case, Greece’s geopolitical position would be weakened, its economy would sink further into recession, and social tensions would rise.
Indeed, China’s relations with Pakistan have assumed greater importance recently, owing to the tensions that now exist between Pakistan and the US.
As geopolitical tensions reduce tourism and foreign investment, uncertainty continues to mount.
Rising trade tensions are already increasing the chances of a synchronized global recession, with slower growth in the US, China, and Europe in 2019.
The EU may well have avoided significant constitutional tensions had its member states' governments initiated such programs much sooner;restructuring of existing regional and continental groupings in order to give priority to increasing the volume of intra-Regional trade.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s visit to Istanbul earlier this month was a heartening sign that tensions between Greece and Turkey are already beginning to ease.
And, after derailing a G7 summit last month, Trump added further tensions this week by refusing to utter even the mildest criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki meeting.
Accession talks with the European Union had not begun;Turkey wanted an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan; the resolution condemning the Armenian genocide had not gathered steam around the world;Turkey’s economy was not in crisis; and Georgia-Russia tensions were not in free-fall.
Whatever their other disagreements, Chinese and Japanese concur on one point: if Asia today, with its rising nationalist tensions, evokes Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, it is precisely because Asia has not embarked on a reconciliation process such as that which enabled France and Germany to transcend their centuries-old rivalry.
By the time Credit-Anstalt collapsed, the world had been in deep recession for two years, banking systems in a number of countries had become fragile, and tensions were easily transmitted across national borders, with the gold standard exacerbating financial vulnerability by constraining central banks’ ability to act.
Of course, because central banks now recognize that their responsibilities extend beyond stabilizing prices to include the prevention and management of financial tensions, they would undoubtedly be quick to respond to any shock with a battery of market operations.
But while the economic response has been much more effective than it was in the 1930s, social tensions and resentments have been left to simmer.
But tensions with the US did diminish.
The history of European integration suggests that regional cooperation, give and take, the pursuit of shared goals, and even in some areas the transfer of sovereignty are the best ways to overcome tensions and promote peaceful problem-solving.
Where interests conflict and opportunities coexist with tensions, a readiness and capacity for dialogue is the only way forward.
Moreover, the international economic crisis and tight energy-supplies have taken a toll on confidence, as have tensions over the nationalization of pension funds and conflicts with soy producers, who oppose an increase in their already high taxes.
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