From Russia with No Love .. for Central Asia Global Voices

In political terms, China, India, and Russia are vying with each other for power in Asia.

Like Russia, China wants a reduction of the US military presence in Central Asia.

The financial crises in Asia and Russia made themselves felt in Europe . A broadly based assessment of the outlook for price developments and the risks to price stability , the second pillar of our monetary policy strategy , on balance pointed to further downward pressure on prices .

Then there are all the other issues, from Chinese assertiveness in Asia to Russian revanchism in Ukraine.

In the long run, Russia and China are likely to be rivals for power and influence in Central Asia.

I am talking about relations with Russia and with the Central Asian States.

I should like to make a second point. In Asia, the future depends largely on there being harmonious relations and a balance of interests between China, India and also Russia.

Openings and real growth are being hampered and the sudden influx or withdrawal of speculative capital is threatening the economies of many countries, to the point of collapse, as in Asia, Russia and Brazil.

The Russian Federation, still the main transit country for the land locked States of Central Asia, was also visited.

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Russia has had centuries of influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, much of which used to be incorporated in the Russian and Soviet empires.

Rachel Denber, the Deputy Director of the Europe and Central Asia division for Human Rights Watch, succinctly summed up numerous comparisons with Russia

While Russia is no longer the superpower it was in the Soviet era, militarily it is still a great power, at least in Europe and Asia.

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We are supposed to help stabilize the region around Afghanistan, for example, but only in order to create a greater Central Asia that will not include Russia.

That leaves only one permanent position for the Eastern European Group (Russia), one for the Asia Pacific Group (China), and none for Africa or Latin America.

Could it be true that huge government investors from Asia (not to mention Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East) have quietly taken control of world markets?

The Other Asia

In Asia?

Asia 4.13

Asia (12)

Asia, Central

Asia Pacific

Asia and the Pacific

Asia 3

4.3.5 Asia

From Asia?

Total Asia

by Alain Nass (expert on Asia and Korea), Asia Pacific Network, October 2011

The Adonis blue ( Polyommatus bellargus ) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.It is found in the Palearctic ecozone Western Europe, Central Europe, South Europe, South Russia, Iraq, Iran, Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Turkey).

In East and South Asia, nuclear powers (China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and North Korea) or near nuclear powers (Japan and South Korea) are all entangled in dangerous strategic rivalries.

A Scramble for Asia?

A Scramble for Asia?

IN WESTERN ASIA

Non Central Asian.

Asia and the Pacific States

Asian and Pacific States

South Asia

Asia, South

Western Asia

Africa and Asia

Mr. Bjemouai Kamel

Asia Pacific Section

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