15 APR COUNTRIES HAVE SUPPORTED A COMPREHENSIVE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Serhiy Polyovyk
Determining their further geopolitical steps today, the leading countries of the world are somehow forced to take into consideration the current situation in the Asian region.
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ПОГЛЯД З ШВЕЙЦАРІЇ
Сергій Польовик
Засоби масової інформації та експертне середовище західноєвропейських країн приділяють підвищену увагу розвитку відносин з країнами Азії. Так, авторитетне швейцарське видання Neue Zürcher Zeitung розміщає на своїх сторінках огляди подій у згаданому регіоні під рубрикою NZZ-Asien. У дослідженнях NZZ-Asien звертається увага на помітно зростаючу важливість азійського регіону, в 20-ти економічно найважливіших країнах якого на сьогодні проживає понад 4 млрд осіб. Швейцарські політичні експерти вказують, що це населення вже забезпечує випуск третини світової економічної продукції. Завдяки таким швидким темпам зростання, ринки Далекого Сходу привертають до себе увагу навіть високорозвиненої швейцарської економіки. Зокрема, швейцарський експорт до Азії протягом останніх десяти років зріс до 40 млрд швейцарських франків (36,42 млрд євро). Тільки на Китай (включно з Гонконгом) припадає майже половина цього експорту.
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ЯК І ЗА ЧИЙ КОШТ США НАМАГАЮТЬСЯ ЗБІЛЬШИТИ ГРОШОВЕ УТРИМАННЯ СВОЇХ ВІЙСЬК У ЯПОНІЇ ТА ПІВДЕННІЙ КОРЕЇ
Сергій Польовик
Австрійська Der Standard 19 листопада ц. р. повідомляє про прояви так званого прагматизму США у стосунках зі своїми геополітичними партнерами. Маються на увазі вимоги Сполучених Штатів до Японії і Південної Кореї суттєво збільшити їх фінансові платежі, щоб компенсувати зусилля американських військовослужбовців у справі протистояння Північній Кореї. Таку заяву оприлюднив президент США Дональд Трамп.
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Another Round of the Pakistani-Indian Confrontation Roman Kot Since the beginning of this month, relations between India and Pakistan have become aggravated again. On 5 and 6 August 2019, the Government of India repealed the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. The Parliament of India also passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, which will reorganise the state into two union territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Pakistan’s ability to influence New Delhi’s decisions on Kashmir is extremely small and is, in fact, limited to appealing to the international community. Given the steps taken by…
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Roman Kot While the United States, against the background of the escalation of its relations with Iran, is dwelling on how to get rid of the consequences of another protracted conflict in Afghanistan by withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, China more and more bluntly demonstrates willingness to fill in this “vacuum”. On the 20th June, 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC issued a statement on the Taliban delegation’s visit to Beijing. At the meeting, Chinese experts discussed establishing a peace process in Afghanistan and combating terrorism. It would seem that the level of such a meeting cannot be considered the highest since it was a working visit. China’s long-standing ties with the Taliban, mainly through the intermediary of Pakistani…
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Serhiy Polyovyk The attention of European analysts who keep a close watch at China’s activity, was drawn to China’s leader Xi Jinping’s unexpected visit to North Korea. And it’s not accidentally, because Europeans are alarmed by its aggressive policy of gradual capturing key infrastructure of European countries. In particular, the Strategic Initiative “One Belt, One Road” provides for the creation of appropriate conditions for the promotion of Chinese interests, namely, its capital, people, technology in one and only direction — from China to the West. And the fate of the…
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Global and Regional Dimensions and Influence on the Interests of Ukraine Olha Ratkovych, Bratislava Today, the region of East Asia has such peculiarities as strengthening of China’s role, unresolved territorial demarcation, the desire to eliminate interstate conflict situations through diplomatic negotiations, without the use of armed forces. Also, the countries of the region are participants of the ASEAN, the World Trade Organization, and China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and cooperates (as well as Japan) in the International Monetary Fund. It should also be noted that the states of East Asia are among the leaders who own and develop…
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Vadym Volokhov The years-long war in Afghanistan has given rise to the phenomenon of the Taliban movement. Some Afghan political analysts and analysts in the West consider it a purely Afghan phenomenon. Maybe it is, but the events of the spring of 2019 show that the melting of snow and opening of mountain passes increases the danger for Afghanistan’s neighboring countries — Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. The aggravation of the situation on the borders of Afghanistan indicates that the phenomenon of the “Taliban” is no longer purely Afghan, and in addition to Tajikistan, they…
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A War Between Nuclear Powers and Its Consequences for the World Victor Hvozd One of the notable consequences of the formation of a new multipolar world, taking place in recent years, is the actual violation of the whole system of international relations, which was formed after the end of the “Cold War”. In this regard, the most dangerous is the loss of effectiveness of nuclear arms control agreements, concluded between the USA and the USSR, and then — Russia. As we have already pointed out, the reason for that was the obtaining of such weapons by countries that are not…
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Vadym Volokhov In the spring of 2019, we should expect aggravation of the military-political situation on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan and in the South-East of Uzbekistan. It is unlikely that the fighting of the ISIS and the Tajik opposition will become large-scale one, since both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are members of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization” and of the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and the charts of these organizations provide for “strengthening peace, international and regional security, collective defense of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states”. The potential of member countries is relatively higher than that…
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