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Even with a slowdown, China will still be one of the world's biggest economies, and a vital contributor to geopolitical discourse.

This was as much a geopolitical as an economic moment.

To be clear, a strong Europe is always welcome by Beijing for geopolitical reasons.

According to its unique geopolitical conditions, India can't neglect Indian Ocean if it wants to carry out the dream of great power.

But all that assumes the geopolitical rivalry between the US and China does not escalate.

Y et it is not inevitable that this series of events will quickly spiral into a broader geopolitical clash in Asia.

'Raw materials are no longer just a question of procurement; they have gradually become a geopolitical issue, ' Mr. Keitel said.

From Mr. Ishihara's vantage point, those geopolitical realities make now the perfect time for Japan to put him in charge.

Mr Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the great geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

It would guarantee European peace as well as restore European geopolitical power, with a currency on a par with the U. S. dollar.

And if that view becomes more respectable, so too does a defensive Muslim reaction, which is often tinged with geopolitical grievance.

Speaking of classy, a year ago, designers were obsessed with protective clothing, their response to an uncertain geopolitical moment.

Fortunately, there are tentative signs that China is beginning to grasp the geopolitical and environmental implications of its energy needs.

I would be remiss if I suggested only pragmatic and geopolitical reasons to steer clear of the Opening Ceremonies.

If it is the Islamic world , the US should stop intruding into Russia's geopolitical space and work out a long- term engagement with China .

From Japan to Vietnam, Asian nations have cozied up to the U. S. as a geopolitical counterweight to their giant neighbor.

But Washington can benefit if it is able to manage this geopolitical transformation effectively.

For the U. S. , while Japan was in some ways an economic rival, it also has been a geopolitical and military ally.

The big US guns, as it were, will be reserved for east Asia and the geopolitical contest with a more assertive China.

To defend the geopolitical interest of Russia, the Putin government adopted a pragmatic approach and began to push a new CIS policy.

It was a triumphant moment for the president, the inveterate anti-Communist who had seen a geopolitical opportunity and seized it boldly.

Neither China nor India have had experience dealing with a geopolitical supply disruption.

Owning up to the geopolitical implications will be as painful for the rich nations as paying the domestic price for the profligacy.

Like the concept of "nation" , it is a discursive construct, but it is more in the abstract, as there are no geopolitical borders.

Even at the height of U. S. geopolitical dominance and economic strength, American students were never anywhere near the head of the class.

People close to the companies cited geopolitical uncertainty and spiralling costs as the reasons behind the decision.

The price of crude is now commonly seen as an indicator of geopolitical risk, a role traditionally associated with gold.

And Europe's relationship with China is not fraught with the same geopolitical rivalry as that of the US and China.

Previous Taiwanese elections, fought against the backdrop of this geopolitical tussle, have been tense affairs.

For all that, the simple fact of Mr Obama's victory has changed the geopolitical game.

Rotating around the globe, around China territory, it will be found that China's geopolitical environment surrounding is not optimistic.

As a result of its overwhelming power, the west has intruded into the geopolitical spaces of other dormant countries.

Ever-present is the threat that if US-influenced institutions do not provide money for development, geopolitical rivals will move in.

Or maybe closer to home: Taiwan is a sore point for Beijing; North Korea is a certain geopolitical disaster; the only question is timing.

Geopolitical rivalry long predates the United States and the Soviet Union, of course; it dates back to the days of the Roman Empire.

Hermit thinks for a while, said : geopolitical fate, destiny is geopolitical.

If you look at the biggest geopolitical questions facing the world, energy is at the heart of most of them.

Kodak said economic weakness, reduced tourism and the geopolitical mess will continue to affect sales and earnings for the rest of the year.

For years, Pakistan has developed a typical victim of Islamic extremism with its unique geopolitical and historical factors.

Geopolitical obstacles are beyond his control, he said.

The defining geopolitical drama of the next century will be the battle for power and influence between China and America.

However, due to the recent geopolitical tensions and dollar weakness is still an effective support to gold.

The danger of losing technological leadership in a crucial industry to a big geopolitical rival; and an oil disaster in its backyard.

Can say, relatively simple and stable geopolitical environment of the United States today accomplished.

Some of these countries, are flexing their energy muscles to gain geopolitical space.

Efforts to forecast China's political, geopolitical and military future are just as feverish.

Russia remains a major geopolitical player that still thinks and acts like one of the big, global powers.

Like the Soviet collapse, it will have large geopolitical repercussions.

Few have shown a better intellectual grasp of America's place in the changing geopolitical order.

The geopolitical picture almost everywhere is one of challenges to US power.

The geopolitical stakes are high for a region home to more than one-fifth of humanity and the factory floor of the global economy.

The geopolitical landscape is now being remade by the clamour for accountable government in the Middle East.

Their next big geopolitical move, according to CIA and pentagon sources, appears to be to try to provoke a war between Turkey and Israel.

These people around, with cloud-cloud and wind things, so Epiphany : not for the geopolitical fate such as wind, the wind volatile.

Arguably, today's geopolitical context is only superficially unipolar.

Geopolitical theory and political geography are two simultaneously-emerging, equally-positioned and parallel-developing scientific fields.

This emerging geopolitical drama was underlined by a fascinating statement in Hanoi at the end of last month by Hillary Clinton.

Perhaps this is because betting on geopolitical worries in recent years has turned out to be a mug's game.

America would not tolerate Russia intruding into its geopolitical sphere in Latin America.

What's missing from this story of global geopolitical upheaval is a clear idea of what China wants from its rise to great power status.

It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes.

Running such geopolitical risks would be understandable if China's policies posed a true threat to America's economic health.

Financial implosion robbed politicians of their confidence; the collapse of the Soviet Union remade Japan's geopolitical co-ordinates.

Traditional security challenges still exist, geopolitical factors are more conspicuous, and hotspot issues keep flaring up.

And while this is not Mr O'Neill's fault, the growing habit of lumping the Brics together into a geopolitical bloc makes even less sense.

In terms of geopolitical power, China has neither the clout nor the inclination to challenge America.

It is a responsive infrastructure that you rely on to mitigate technical surprise and changes in the geopolitical environment.

The Berlin Wall was a human tragedy, but a geopolitical convenience.

With geopolitical tension over the minerals still elevated (pdf), government actions aren't helping provide clear answers.

India lies in the core area of the South Asia and the Indian Ocean. It has a very important position in the world geopolitical system.

Cameron is a geopolitical nature of design?

Yet some fears have taken on a geopolitical flavour, reminding Icelanders of their pivotal position during the cold war.

China and India have become locked in an increasingly nasty dispute over territory and geopolitical influence.

Beyond such mundane geopolitical rivalries, the US has a more profound reason to conserve its helium: Every balloon inevitably deflates.

This thesis gave a contrast analysis to Zbigniew Brzezinski s idea of geopolitical strategy during the Cold War and post-cold war.

China's dream of Indian Ocean ports -- the so-called string of pearls -- is heightening geopolitical tensions in a rough neighborhood.

India also resides in a dangerous neighborhood that will hem in its geopolitical ascent.

If you look far enough into the future, 2009may well be seen as the moment Asia consolidated its economic and geopolitical clout.

Yet they also support Israel with a passion, without realising this stance is a geopolitical gift to China.

The complexity and dangers of the geopolitical environment increased the difficulty and insecurity of Soviet diplomacy.

The results indicate that the definition of geopolitical boundary area is too broad and overestimates market competitiveness.

Mr Putin once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 2th century.

Gold, for instance, trades more as a hedge against inflation and geopolitical risk than on supply and demand considerations.

Forget about the G2; the geopolitical landscape will be marked out in coming decades by competition rather than co-operation.

Beyond the nebulous geopolitical demarcation that delineates China lies poverty, savagery and barbarism.

Few matters generate as much consensus in international affairs today as the need to rebuild the world geopolitical order.

If anything, however, the shifts in the geopolitical winds have made this possibility even less likely than it was three years ago.

who saw the post-cold-war future as a stand-off between half a dozen geopolitical blocks, defined in religious as well as ethnic terms.

When he arrives in Beijing, Mr. Obama will be clutching a geopolitical "to-do" list that looks quite similar.

The explanation for the generally positive image of the US in Asia is less geopolitical than sociological and cultural.

Markets have faced a succession of events this week that have intensified the fragile geopolitical outlook in the Middle East and Asia.

For decades, mining iron ore was a monotonous business with few geopolitical implications.

That order is challenged now, not just by shifting geopolitical rivalries, but by the new pressures of the Arab spring.

The country's size and strategic importance make it critical to America's Pacific strategy and to China's geopolitical calculations.

But outside of an all-out blue-water fight, the geopolitical utility of China's amphibious force deserves a far more rigorous analysis.

This combined work shows what happens when Spirituality, Technical education and Geopolitical awareness work together.

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SUMMATION of the new Asian geopolitical landscape has come not from Washington or Beijing, but from Canberra.

There could be unexpected escalation of geopolitical tension leading to sharp market adjustments.

Once again, geopolitical interests are overriding ideological differences.

It has not paid investors to worry about geopolitical risk in recent years.

But Singapore has little geopolitical heft and it's unlikely the U. S. and Europe would back a candidate from an authoritarian government.

Both gas and food are prone to volatile price swings, often due to weather disruptions and geopolitical conflicts abroad.

New nervousness about geopolitical risk, with tensions rising in the Korean peninsula, has not helped.

More importantly, the outlook of the Chinese community in Singapore has been attuned to its geopolitical environment.

Today most people recognize Kazakhstan as an emerging geopolitical player. Why?

The beginning of the 21st century is the safest period of the geopolitical condition of northern China.

What struck me, though, was how this crisis (no one is sure it is over) provides a perfect metaphor for the new geopolitical landscape.

The contours of the geopolitical and economic landscapes have been redrawn.

A renewed scramble for oil is raising fears of a new generation of geopolitical conflicts.

They warned that the project could provide cover for China's geopolitical interests in the Atlantic island nation and Nato member.

The geopolitical order, temporarily upended by the unique dynamics of football, will restore itself.

Of course, we know the gesture is only a calculated strategic move in Russia's geopolitical game.

If valuations look excessive and geopolitical risks are rising, then it seems likely that market volatility will increase.

This was the event that crystallised the new geopolitical order.

More importantly, Exxon will not compete on the basis of geopolitical concerns, only financial return.

This holds true from Imperial Rome to Imperial Britain, where economic decline preceded and fueled a fall from geopolitical supremacy.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-89) exposed the Soviet's soft underbelly and made its geopolitical disadvantages more obvious.

But of course we shall protect our own geopolitical interests firmly and consistently.

Since 1884, as the geo-strategic region of China, the geopolitical status of Yunnan had been rising.

Russia, self-esteem wounded, claimed that America was promoting democracy to further its geopolitical interests.

However, Obama is also likely to find his foreign policy constrained by domestic opinion, record budget deficits and geopolitical realities.

subtilis residues no wind, dust stained blue flower, snow floated for the dawn of dream geopolitical situation in stone.

Even without geopolitical instability, increasing oil production to meet the world's growing demand is a daunting challenge.

He does not think the country can continue to rely on export-led growth for both geopolitical and economic reasons.

Clearly, Beijing considers the South China Sea a vital square in its geopolitical chessboard.

As an economic power, but not a geopolitical one, Japan barely scrapes in, despite an American promise to back it.

Beijing's geopolitical priorities haven't fundamentally changed in the 60 years since the Korean War.

We don't know how our newly globalised economy will respond to a sharp geopolitical oil price shock.

But geopolitical reality is that the United States can do very little now to slow down the approaching grand alliance.

In the modern age, the location of oil fields with proven oil reserves is a key underlying factor in many geopolitical conflicts.

Accordingly, the economic and geopolitical value of the control that NOCs exert on their reserves is increasing.

Whether it is technology, financial markets, popular discontent or global geopolitical upheaval everything now runs at fast forward.

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Until a few weeks ago, even fears of geopolitical conflict tended to push up prices.

In addition, the relatively more hard-line diplomacy McKern, in dealing with the geopolitical context or out of vulnerable lift gold prices.

it is not a geopolitical struggle to militarily or ideologically "dominate" the Pacific.

In doing so, it should respect China's special historic and geopolitical role in maintaining stability on the Far Eastern mainland.

But it does not necessarily generate geopolitical heft.

The geopolitical landscape is changing too fast to allow for a new architecture.

So if America defeats Al Qaeda and the irreconcilable elements of the Taliban, China's geopolitical position will be enhanced.

Mr. Kaplan, whose books include "Balkan Ghosts" and "Warrior Politics, " has a gift for geopolitical imagination.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, western thinkers assumed the west would never need to make geopolitical compromises.

Now the rise in emerging economies is once again altering power relations among states and creating new geopolitical risks.

This makes it face the geopolitical pressure from ocean and land as a challenging strategy.

By the same token, as China's geopolitical weight grows, so does its share of responsibility for world security.

The public spending reviews now in prospect are sure to accelerate the pace of geopolitical decline.

In other words, Sakhalin is potentially crucial in the Kremlin's drive to recapture its geopolitical clout using energy wealth.

To do this the US needs to build new geopolitical partnerships and alliances; Indonesia and India are good candidates.

The geopolitical strategy 'China's peaceful rise' was a topic of discussion for the forum in 2004.

It is far stronger and richer than most, and its geopolitical position is remarkably favorable.

And Brazil faces no geopolitical rivals and resides in a region that has been remarkably free of inter-state war.

With that change may come geopolitical shifts.

The proposed agreement should now be seen in "geopolitical terms" and not simply as a commercial pact, they said.

And the geopolitical and economic backdrop presents significant obstacles to agreement.

In any event, there are geopolitical bargains and lucrative trade deals to be struck with repressive regimes.

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Weaker US equity markets provided a boost to Treasuries, another haven from geopolitical concerns.

It reads like a geopolitical thriller of the first order .

The criterion can provide a serviceable restriction for arctic route geopolitical issue.

He added: "It looks like we could reduce cost, weight and mass and avoid the geopolitical issues with the rare earth metals. "

But Natali said this self-rule has forced Iraqi Kurdish leaders to face geopolitical reality in a landlocked region.

"There is a geopolitical game going on behind all this, " Mr. Marangos said.

After Iran, Russia is probably the single country in the world most willing to challenge the existing geopolitical order.

There is too much complacency about a soft landing for the US economy, low inflation and geopolitical risk.

With this new kind of power, the economic and geopolitical sides are ever more intertwined.

An editorial in the official People's Daily last December captured China's broader geopolitical anxieties.

On top of which, the geopolitical implications of a bitter US-China split could make the economic consequences look trivial.

The rise of Africa's energy industry is changing the geopolitical landscape of the region.

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He and many others have looked on in dismay at Japan's relative decline, measured both in economic terms and in geopolitical influence.

This map is another example of geopolitical grandstanding, but from a Turkish perspective.

Nothing Washington can do will prevent this geopolitical transformation.

Europe prefers to close its eyes to the shift in the geopolitical centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Taking a more high-profile and tougher stance wouldn't be easy for China's policymakers, for geopolitical reasons.

With the increased supply the geopolitical and economic interest in biofuel faded away.

It took half a century and two wars for raw American economic power to translate into geopolitical dominance.

And many believe Moscow's geopolitical stance on energy resources could politicise the sector.

Despite the focus on fighting terrorism, the US was still alert to broader geopolitical trends.

NUMBER OF GEOPOLITICAL scenarios could lead to a HANE incident.

Another step should be to broaden the G8 annual meetings to reflect current economic and geopolitical realities.

large goals that required farsighted policies; took a long view of the geopolitical issues.

In recent years, oil inventories and prices have tended to move in tandem with geopolitical risk.

"Geopolitical, " was his response.

There are also some lurking geopolitical issues and higher security costs that could reduce oil supply on a temporary basis.

At the geopolitical level, China would seem well positioned to expand its influence.

However, as UBS notes, Mr Dudley's appointment could shift BP's geopolitical risk from Washington to Moscow.

George Friedman, founder and chief executive of geopolitical analysis firm STRATFOR, believes China will fragment by 2020.

Berlin is resetting its geopolitical compass accordingly.

Geopolitical turmoil, intense energy competition and the great change of world energy patterns caused a lot of attention in 21st Century.

The grand expectation that after the Cold War the world would enter an era of international geopolitical convergence has proven wrong.

The diversification of Latin America's economic ties has raised in some minds a nagging question: does it foreshadow geopolitical changes?

And this brilliance remained undimmed even when the empire's geopolitical fortunes were collapsing.

It is the mirror opposite of Russia, in that market-relevant political risk in Turkey is largely internal, not geopolitical.

If all three legs of Asem were equally strong, each power could use the triangle for geopolitical leverage.

So far, market response to geopolitical risks such as the terrorist attacks in central London has been muted.

Asia's economic progress underpins growing geopolitical clout.

The geopolitical balance is adjusting accordingly.

Oil remains the ultimate geopolitical aphrodisiac.

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Because of Treasuries' status as a safe haven, the US government has benefited from capital inflows during moments of geopolitical stress.

Beibu-Bay Circling Economic Zone will be of great importance to both our geopolitical safety and to the regional economic balance.

How does one calibrate the momentous shift of economic and geopolitical clout towards the east?

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For much of the 20th century, Asia was dominated by the geopolitical tides of war.

China's rise is remaking the global geopolitical balance, while the economic crisis has further underlined Sino-American interdependence.

By raising oil prices, and the geopolitical temperature, OPEC encouraged new supply.

Some observers are sceptical about the geopolitical fallout from any financial crisis.

Much more likely, it marks the structural shift in the geopolitical balance.

But what has helped Iran could hinder Saudi Arabia, where the government runs high economic and geopolitical risks as oil prices mount.

It's a recipe for geopolitical tensions and drastic market movements, feng shui experts say.

China is ascendant. India and many other countries will be drawn toward US simply by geopolitical facts.

The relationship is indeed a geopolitical keystone for both countries.

In geopolitical forecasting too, while the future may be fundamentally unpredictable, key trends can be analyzed.

However, gold performs well when geopolitical risks escalate, which is why this safe haven is up 4% in the last five days.

Countries on the rise amass wealth and geopolitical clout by refusing to bear those costs.

Finally, using the geopolitical strategy for China's comprehensive view sea power construction strategy to provide a series of proposals.

The fast-shifting distribution of power in the world is feeding a burgeoning community of geopolitical seers.

Fears have also surfaced that global supplies could be disrupted because of geopolitical fallout over Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.

In each case, a change of economic strategy pays a handsome geopolitical dividend.

Iran believes it is the big power in the region and enjoys a geopolitical and geostrategic position.

But our exceptionally favorable geopolitical position allows us to do these things, even when they don't make a lot of strategic sense.

But its distance will also limit its influence in this geopolitical heartland.

We have been shown the new geopolitical landscape.

"If current trends continue, " he writes, "we are on track to lose our geopolitical contest with China. "

This paper studies on geopolitical security of Central Asia and China in post-clod war era.

China is riding high as a new economic and geopolitical giant.

And St Pierre et Miquelon aren't France's only contribution to the fascinating world of geopolitical farce.

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 caused a new geopolitical restructuring and put an end to the cold war.

Before examining the economic, geopolitical and even psychological changes taking place, there are important caveats.

The second answer is U. S. geopolitical and international economic policy doctrine.

Geopolitical risks could undermine the market, too.

British "Financial Times" Web site on Jan. 28 article, worrying geopolitical position in the agenda the issue up.

On this view, not only has the geopolitical balance shifted east but portfolio flows will follow suit.

"China's rise is the most important geopolitical event of our lifetime, " said Mr Thornton during an interview.

The SCO is on track to become an organisation that challenges the geopolitical reach of the US.

Admittedly, this effect will be somewhat muted by other geopolitical crosscurrents, but itwill be felt.

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Finally, the Chinese government has sought to secure control over natural resources and to use that control to pursue geopolitical goals.

The motives are geopolitical, and some of the Chinese lending is on less-than-commercial terms.

Now, a resource-hungry China is flexing its geopolitical muscle too.

I was addressing a meeting of US and European diplomats to survey the geopolitical horizons.

Investors, in particular, should worry a lot more about geopolitical risk.

And don't forget the geopolitical considerations.

Barring a big hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or a disruptive geopolitical event, oil prices appear to have peaked.

The ascent of China will most likely be the biggest geopolitical drama of the 21st century.

Analysis of the Geopolitical Pattern of the World After "Cold War"

We are otherwise at the mercy of the geopolitical weather.

But Turkey is a country of 77 million people with the world's 17th biggest economy in a crucial geopolitical position.

The food crisis has re-emerged as a top geopolitical concern in the past month.

Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably.