LARRY FINK: Well, it really depends on what happens geopolitically.
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It will be economically, environmentally, and could be geopolitically transformative.
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But read the morning paper — what's happening politically and geopolitically.
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Mr. Di Maio has been geopolitically balanced in his misnomers.
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But Sessions doesn't have to be geopolitically devious to be unethical.
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Trump also espouses policies that would be geopolitically advantageous to China.
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The persistence of Ibadi Islam matters geopolitically in at least two countries.
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"It changes the way you think geopolitically about the greatest truth," she says.
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Indeed, both have drawn geopolitically closer to America since the rise of China.
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"Difficult politically, potentially geopolitically, but certainly the economic outlook remains very, very stable."
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In gaining much-needed cash, they slowly reshape and advance their position geopolitically.
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They&aposre aggressive geopolitically, economically, militarily with the phony islands that they&aposve built.
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Geopolitically, the report plays into Macron's evolving policies toward international relations and cultural diplomacy.
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It also occupies a geopolitically strategic location between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
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Geopolitically speaking, it was a problem that could be ignored, and it largely was.
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"Musically, geopolitically, emotionally, this Fiddler raises the roof," wrote Mark Lawson in The Guardian.
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Traditionally, China has held leverage over Taiwan in three key ways: militarily, economically and geopolitically.
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At the same time, high-profile, geopolitically motivated hacks out of Russia are nothing new.
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Now, with our region reeling politically and geopolitically, it is time for our new path.
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Trump's latest notion to slap tariffs on German automobiles would be even more damaging geopolitically.
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"There is a sense that Russia is geopolitically in competition with the West," he said.
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"I think the whole uncertainty that we have geopolitically is not a positive," Ekholm said.
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"What we're seeing now is a very slow refreezing of the Arctic geopolitically," Conley said.
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Geopolitically, U.S. LNG exports would help diversify world energy supplies and enhance global energy security.
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A policy of maximal hostility toward Iran becomes not just geopolitically advantageous but morally necessary.
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But the danger that men pose — individually, structurally, and geopolitically — shouldn't dictate how women present themselves.
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The tit-for-tat expulsions were the second such episode following geopolitically related poisonings in Britain.
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The potential for domestic job creation might entice Riyadh even further to pursue geopolitically risky economic relations.
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And it would once again alienate the United States geopolitically, especially in our policymaking in Latin America.
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The shale revolution has lowered prices, strengthened the U.S. geopolitically and made entrepreneurs and landowners very wealthy.
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EU TRADE COMMISSIONER HOGAN SAYS CHINA IS LOOKING FOR DOMINANCE AND INFLUENCE GEOPOLITICALLY THROUGH TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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They&aposve been very aggressive geopolitically including in the South China Sea and in the East China Sea.
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In a tumultuous summer geopolitically, and an angst-ridden season politically, this is something to be excited about.
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That's not to say there aren't ways to cooperate in this field, but geopolitically, the outlook is grim.
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If that futures contract becomes a benchmark, the geopolitically important oil industry could see a shift in power.
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China is a huge competitor economically, geopolitically-- INGRAHAM: What&aposs the size of China&aposs economy compared to Russia?
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Our world is rapidly changing and power is shifting geopolitically, in business terms and even in the virtual world.
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Now, the future of the world's most geopolitically tangled region is being dumped on the desk of Donald Trump.
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And in a region geopolitically defined as the "Middle East," centralized archives, collections, and libraries are sometimes under threat.
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These deep-rooted relations have enabled our Western counterparts over time to widen their horizons both culturally and geopolitically.
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This will continue to be a dynamic situation geopolitically and economically, and it won't be a one-day story.
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The unravelling of a roughly three-year alliance between Moscow and Riyadh over OPEC production is also geopolitically significant.
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Elsewhere in the building, signs of the museum's commitment to the hyper-contemporary and geopolitically diverse are already visible.
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"In the current geopolitically challenging scenario, India has managed to convince international leaders," Pradhan told reporters in New Delhi.
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Back then, Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, found much both geopolitically and financially to dislike about the idea.
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Besides being an economically vital relationship "in terms of being two superpowers, it's geopolitically a very important relationship," Lew said.
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"Geopolitically, this (official trip) is yet another example of India's shift away from its policy of non-alignment," said Agrawal.
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You have to wonder why a known thief cared about gathering geopolitically sensitive information linked to Russia's own global interests.
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Ukraine's energy industry, the country's geopolitically crucial economic engine, was a central point of contention between the Obama administration and Kiev.
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I thought it was unbelievable that that stock was even down for a day with what we've got going on geopolitically.
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The bottom line: Submitting to militarized oil blackmail by Iran is in no one's long-term interests, either economically or geopolitically.
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Keeping the lid on Iran has sought to ameliorate its strategic concerns by pushing forward geopolitically, away from its sovereign borders.
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"Geopolitically, the situation does not really encourage a lot of companies to come and invest hundreds of millions of dollars," she said.
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A battle over exchange rates between America and China could prove far more dangerous, both economically and geopolitically, than Mr Baker's negotiations.
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"For the first week or so, there has been a lot of discussion about whether it will hurt Ukraine geopolitically," Rudenko said.
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"There's a benefit of Putin being extremely engaged as being an oil market kingpin, geopolitically and in the Middle East," he said.
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It makes sense geopolitically: Moscow needs markets for its oil and petroleum, and Beijing needs the oil and petroleum for its economy.
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Don't forget: Membership in the WTO grants the U.S. preferential access to markets of other members, even if relations are geopolitically rocky.
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Unless some greater wisdom prevails, we could spin toward conflict with China, first economically, then geopolitically and militarily, with utter disaster for all.
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"It's been very bland geopolitically for the last few quarters before this quarter," noted Kloza, who shed his bearishness about six weeks ago.
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The Hill's Rebecca Kheel, Vicki Needham and I wrote up five ways the U.S. be impacted by the crisis both economically and geopolitically.
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There is no epilogue here, no jump cuts to the future to let us know how everything turns out, personally rather than geopolitically.
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"Now we have to think about protectionist measures, and geopolitically what may come to pass once (the) Trump government starts," Watling added on Friday.
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"Geopolitically infused rallies could shoot prices toward or even past the $80 per barrel mark for intermittent periods this summer," the Canadian bank said.
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China also is active in less commodity-rich nations like Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, in part because they are growing economies and geopolitically strategic.
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It is currently hearing proceedings brought against China by several of its South East Asian neighbours over the geopolitically sensitive South China Sea dispute.
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In the fear of further sanctions, Russia's country risk premium soared, and Russian assets turned all but "geopolitically radioactive," suffering a major sell-off.
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Though the strait is tiny — at its narrowest point it is just 33 km (21 miles) across — it's a geopolitically and financially crucial chokepoint.
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And in today's geopolitically charged atmosphere it is a good time to remember that without Texas oil, America's superpower status could be gravely challenged.
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In recent years, the oil giant has turned its attention outward, running an aggressive global expansion strategy featuring a variety of geopolitically risky deals.
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Realizing that it faced an increasingly uphill battle geopolitically, the US government has been working to rethink and expand its pressure campaign on Huawei.
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The Silk Road initiative gives China influence in, and access to, a huge continent — one with growing economies and geopolitically important spots, like Djibouti.
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But it pointed to two other, stronger forces set to batter emerging markets, which tend to be more trade-oriented and geopolitically delicate, before then.
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However, the departure of major stakeholders from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership were also geopolitically significant, GRPS respondents said.
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But a smaller, poorer America is going to be a weaker America that gets overtaken by China geopolitically and economically on a pretty rapid basis.
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The State Department announced the travel ban last month amid mounting concern over the safety of US citizens visiting the secretive and geopolitically isolated country.
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The three young boys could not access medical care because the town where they live has become a pawn in a deadly geopolitically balancing act.
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"We will use (the China visit) geopolitically as strategic leverage" said Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, answering questions on trade at the Mexico Business Forum.
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And you have two guys, Trump and Putin, who are both painted into a corner, strategically, both at home and geopolitically, who are very prideful.
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China's seizure of the unmanned underwater vehicle Thursday in the geopolitically sensitive South China Sea has raised tensions barely a month before Trump takes office.
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If the president says something in private, no matter how geopolitically fraught, it's only a matter of time before he blurts it out in public.
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Incidentally, given that the US has emerged as the world's leading natural gas producer, the SDS would also put the US in the catbird seat, geopolitically.
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If the hacker were geopolitically motivated, they could tweet favorably or unfavorably about a country or a leader (as Trump has done) and alter foreign affairs.
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And its location, between India and South-East Asia, with a long littoral on the Indian Ocean, puts it in the thick of things, geopolitically speaking.
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Geopolitically, a Le Pen victory would mean a strong ally of Vladimir Putin in the heart of a Europe from which she would have France withdraw.
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Geopolitically, they are both US allies; they both want a denuclearized North Korea; they both support free trade; and they both view China's rise with trepidation.
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"It is important geopolitically because Russia now has a direct route from its territory to Crimea," said Natalya V. Zubarevich, an expert on regional economic development.
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"Geopolitically infused rallies could shoot prices toward or even past the $80 per barrel mark for intermittent periods this summer," RBC Capital Markets said in a note.
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The U.S. should revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the deal is the most "important geopolitically" for the U.S., the country's former ambassador to China said.
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Because America's population will still be growing when that of most other developed countries is shrinking, America will be the only developed country that still matters geopolitically.
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Courtesy Getty Images Courtesy Getty Images Russians, both individuals or crime syndicates, or geopolitically motivated state-sponsored institutions, meddle with and hack U.S. computers and systems constantly.
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The intrigue: White House attributions of cyber events used to be rare because openly acknowledging a foreign actor was geopolitically risky and seemed to demand a response.
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Many will also criticize us, saying that love is too simplistic, that the problem between North Korea and the United States is too ideologically and geopolitically complicated.
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"Regardless of what's happening geopolitically, scientists have a common language" that enables them to communicate and have trusted relationships irrespective of the broader political climate, Parker said.
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SHANGHAI — The Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets tipped off on Thursday night in Shanghai in, undoubtedly, the most geopolitically important exhibition game in N.B.A. history.
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Should that happen experts believe the ownership of Diego Garcia could be up for negotiation -- a move that would make Mauritius a much more important country geopolitically.
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Sputnik triggered the Space Race, a geopolitically intense and technologically productive phase of the Cold War, which climaxed with NASA's six Apollo Moon landings from 1969 to 1972.
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He disagrees with the path that Europe is on, and as such it seems insane to him that America is economically or geopolitically on the hook for it.
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Vladimir Putin has drawn the current Orthodox leadership into a close political partnership in which both sides laud the need for a strong and geopolitically confident Russian state.
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Or you could call it reckless — a conclusion borne out by the violent and geopolitically significant ramifications of Facebook's "imperfect" expansion into countries like Myanmar and the Philippines.
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Given the size, strategic position, and military capabilities of these two geopolitically critical countries, the answers will determine whether these two critical countries will export vitality or violence.
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Given the involvement of the U.S. and its democratic allies on the one side and China, Russia and Cuba on the other, the stakes are even higher geopolitically.
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"The No. 1 problem with this, geopolitically, is that it suggests to our allies that we are just incompetent, that we don&apost recognize the threat," Green said.
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It is politically stable and geopolitically independent; its citizens enjoy a high standard of living and all the trappings—but not much more than the trappings—of democracy.
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This pursuit is set to continue with help from the U.S., but it will also foster greater engagement with the East — both for economic and geopolitically strategic aims.
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There have been years of political wrangling over whether the additional route to bring Siberian gas to Germany directly from next year is in Europe's interest, economically and geopolitically.
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They believe THAAD will be used to track missiles from either China or Russia, and its placement in South Korea is an attempt to geopolitically contain the two countries.
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One reason may be Mr. Macron's domestic political concerns, "but geopolitically, you can't look at the Western Balkans and not realize that there's a battle going on," she said.
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If Wednesday's ceasefire in Aleppo holds, it could be a real turning point in what has become the world's worst — and perhaps most geopolitically complex — conflict in recent memory.
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"We still think there's value, especially tech, financial and in health care because everything is starting to point in the right direction geopolitically," Bapis said during the same segment.
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U.S. oil production, while certainly a game changer economically and geopolitically, has not eliminated the centrality of the Persian/Arab Gulf production for developments in the global oil market.
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The US-Saudi alliance is longstanding, economically and geopolitically consequential, and it's been thrown into chaos since the likely assassination of reporter Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident and US resident.
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Many Democrats say they understand the president's need to think diplomatically and geopolitically about the nation's position when it comes to legislation opening up foreign nations to such lawsuits.
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A steady flow of foreign people of different skill levels will be essential for the United States to maintain its status as a global power economically, geopolitically, and militarily.
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Russia is playing a weak hand geopolitically—its economy is sputtering along and its population shrinking—and so its greatest hope is to stoke internal discord in the West.
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And, at a rate of 226 million cars sold annually around the world, it is sufficient to build and sustain numerous trillion-dollar companies, a geopolitically defining scale of wealth.
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The pipelines are sensitive geopolitically, because they increase German and European dependence on Russian natural gas while bypassing Ukraine and Poland, cutting off some transit fees for those two economies.
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"We are geographically and geopolitically close, we must have closer relations," Heleno told Bolton at the meeting, according to a video recorded by a Bolsonaro aide and viewed by Reuters.
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Its main regional allies are Iran and the Syria of President Bashar al-Assad, and having friends in Kurdish territory, located between Syria, Iran and Turkey, would be geopolitically useful.
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The formidable Empress and other intimates implored the Shah himself not to flee, but the Shah and his family left their country in early 1979, to become geopolitically unwanted nomads.
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It is unlikely that the President's tweeting about North Korea gets us anywhere geopolitically, and I think the tone and volume of his tweets makes each subsequent one less impactful.
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The new facility comes at a geopolitically sensitive time for the Chinese company, which was indicted by the FBI in January on charges of trade-secret theft and bank fraud.
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And it seemed to capture the lingering questions about whether a geopolitically fractured world will be able to confront a virus that disregards borders and the governments that enforce them.
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In short, Trump's pedigree in real estate negotiation is being used to try to recast one of the most complex and geopolitically vital documents on the planet, Paton Walsh said.
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We really had to make sure that every country in the world got turned on, particularly those behind the Iron Curtain, or else it would be a very bad thing geopolitically.
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Sales and trading revenue fell 3% yoy driven by a 7% decline in fixed income, currencies and commodities, largely reflecting lower client activity in rates compared to a geopolitically-active 2Q13.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry thought he was speaking with the Ukraine prime minister, discussing "geopolitically sensitive topics [like] cyberattacks, potential pipelines for Russian gas and the Paris climate accord," per Politico.
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Against this improving fundamental backdrop, a geopolitically driven supply disruption will now have a much more outsized influence, and price spikes can no longer be dismissed as things of the past.
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The Party keeps a closer eye on companies that do business in geopolitically strategic industries — like telecommunications or oil — than it does for firms involved in e-commerce or online gaming.
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Following its 1990 reunification, today's Germany remains too weak to effectively lead Europe (militarily and geopolitically) and too strong (economically) to be an equal partner with the other 27 EU members.
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In the research note, the analysts projected oil prices would likely "ebb and flow" over the coming months while "geopolitically driven supply disruptions" were likely to be much more "consequential" in 2018.
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The Kremlin's encroachment in North Ossetia and Abkhazia pushes Georgia westward geopolitically, while at the same time Turkey's new enthusiasm for renewing ties with Azerbaijan limits Tbilisi's maneuver in terms of energy.
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Geopolitically, worsening American relations with three crucial neighbors of Afghanistan — Pakistan, Russia and Iran — have raised fears that those countries will intensify their meddling in the war to punish the United States.
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SAK: You see I am a technocrat and you're right that the energy and politics do work together but it works together geopolitically and making sure that you can get into different countries.
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So I think the market is afraid that President Trump has so many balls in the air when it comes to what's going on geopolitically that one of them is going to drop.
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However, we must take into consideration the fact that the historical relations between the two countries were not merely based on economic aspects, but also security, intelligence, and geopolitically strategic ones as well.
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Now, it's China's turn, but in its case, Beijing has woven consumerism into state policy — it's how President Xi Jinping has plotted to take the country to the next stage economically and geopolitically.
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And so any effort of Europe and the United States to sanction them for their bad authoritarian and geopolitically irresponsible behavior has to be a very high target of pressure on their part.
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ATHENS — After years of struggling under austerity imposed by European partners and a chilly shoulder from the United States, Greece has embraced the advances of China, its most ardent and geopolitically ambitious suitor.
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China has lashed out at the U.S. after Washington accused Beijing of not doing enough to arrest North Korean's nuclear ambitions, underscoring tensions between the two world powers in the geopolitically sensitive Korean Peninsula.
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The prediction was this would be catastrophic and widespread and create an incredible amount of tumult that already, like, geopolitically strife area, but I&aposm saying -- I think, ultimately, a positive step towards peace.
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One EU official cast the plans for an updated trade deal, which will include sustainable development policies and public procurement, as a way to retain influence over a geopolitically important candidate country and neighbor.
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""If we don't wake up," he said, "there's a considerable risk that in the long run we will disappear geopolitically, or at least that we will no longer be in control of our destiny.
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Reduced influence and lack of engagement in Africa The current administration's America First policy has created vacuums — geopolitically, economically, and militarily — by undercutting U.S. diplomatic capacity and withdrawal from major global and trade agreements.
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But the organization isn't nearly as prominent or geopolitically significant as the UN Security Council, which sets binding international law, or UN Peacekeeping, a body literally tasked with helping war-torn countries transition to peace.
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"The worse it gets geopolitically, the easier monetary policy will be," he said, meaning that if the political situation worsens, the ECB will step in if necessary to protect the economic recovery in the region.
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Multiple people associated with Trump inside and outside the administration told CNN that the energy secretary was among those engaged in efforts to change leadership at Naftogaz, Ukraine's geopolitically important state-owned oil and gas company.
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"Great powers like the United States, China and India will see an EU weakened politically and geopolitically if there is Brexit," Vivien Pertusot, Brussels-based analyst with the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), told AFP.
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From his confident dismantling of other rappers on "My Melody," from "Paid in Full" (23) to the geopolitically-grounded PTSD of "Casualties of War," from "Don't Sweat the Technique" (22), Rakim was an icily certain rapper.
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The airline has never had a fatal crash with one of its aircraft in its 28-year history, according to Aviation Safety Network, despite flying to some of the world's most geopolitically tense regions, until now.
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Seriously, just watch it (above) and tell us whether anyone who's young and optimistic enough to be like "Hey, we can still make it to Tijuana before midnight!" should also be trusted with geopolitically loaded tech innovations.
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Moscow has played small but geopolitically significant roles in the two American cruise missile strikes that in April 2017 targeted an airfield and a year later hit two possible chemical weapons sites and a chemical research lab.
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Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, the Soviet spies who live in our midst (if you happen to live in the D.C. metro area) are now officially on opposite sides of the Cold War, geopolitically and in the kitchen.
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America, geopolitically defined, has been a liberal maritime power, protecting the sea lines of communications for itself and its allies, defending access to choke points and hydrocarbon regions, and enabling, through its Navy, the process of globalization.
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"The fallout from Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance is the latest political misstep from Saudi Arabia that will geopolitically benefit Iran," Sanam Vakil, a senior consulting research fellow at U.K. think tank Chatham House, wrote in a note this week.
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We all believe, and I mean all of us, that the most overwhelmingly important event geopolitically for the next 50 years is liaison, a constructive liaison between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.
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This is something that, for the first time, we&aposre really able to get someone who has just been in a regime, intractable and such a problem geopolitically to the table to have a meaningful discussion about denuclearization.
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In one of the actions, she hired Venezuelans to carry stones across the river that geopolitically divides the border with Colombia; for another, she hired the migrants to knit their narratives into fabrics stained by the local soil.
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The other, which has been called as important as another aircraft carrier, is a 21st-century trade agreement that will instill American values and strengthen our alliances in one of the most geopolitically consequential regions of the world.
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But continued American assistance means the Pentagon will get to have a say in what happens in that vast expanse of desert -- which, in its most geopolitically broad definition, runs from Iran to Israel -- in the coming years.
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Both countries believe that the US is playing up the defensive nature of the missile system and using its deployment to geopolitically box them in -- if it can stop North Korea's missiles, couldn't it stop China's and Russia's too?
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This African crisis is on a par with those in Yemen and Syria but gets much less attention than either -- perhaps because CAR, a landlocked country of abject poverty, has never seemed as geopolitically significant as those other cases.
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In the months leading up to Trump's phone call with Zelensky, multiple people associated with Trump, both inside and outside of his administration, were engaged in efforts to change leadership at Naftogaz, Ukraine's geopolitically important state-owned oil and gas company.
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Yet Washington's emphasis on the geopolitically trivial — looking for warlords in Somalia and Uganda, attempting to Westernize Afghanistan, redrawing the map of the Balkans, seeking to fix multiple Middle Eastern countries — risks impairing America's ability to handle the truly consequential.
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And, it is a story about two larger-than-life egos wanting to appear as macho "strongmen," leading two geopolitically important and powerful countries, and how each man wants to come out on top in this bizarre political face-off.
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The second was that if Saudi Arabia realigned geopolitically into the Soviet camp — either because its leaders forged an alliance with Moscow or because its leaders were overthrown by some new leftist coalition — America's overall strategic posture would be greatly weakened.
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Liang Qichao's "The Future of New China" (1902) is set in 1962; in the story, Shanghai hosts the World's Fair, a geopolitically dominant China has developed a multiparty system, and Westerners study the Chinese in the hope of bettering themselves.
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The big picture: Macron argues that the consensus behind the trans-Atlantic alliance is obsolete, and that Europe will "disappear geopolitically" if it fails to become a unified, effective and far more assertive world power in its own right. 1.
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"The Chinese are very, very worried about any kind of trans-Atlantic alliance or even discussions about the rise of China, what it's doing as an investor or geopolitically," said Philippe Le Corre, a China expert now at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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A workable solution to this geopolitically explosive conundrum is for Turkey to pay Russia for the S-22019 but not put it into service — and for the U.S. to loan out, with conditions, equivalent Patriot systems to Turkey, a strategic frontline NATO member.
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In recent years, Chinese companies have been on an acquisition binge, buying major strategic assets like copper mines and oil deposits, and investing in flashier, if less economically or geopolitically important, deals for marquee names like the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
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The European Union's change in approach to Eritrea is part of a broader coming in from the cold for the country, as world powers take an interest in the geopolitically crucial Horn of Africa and Eritrea's long coastline along the Red Sea.
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This African crisis is on a par with those in Yemen and Syria but gets much less attention than either -- perhaps because CAR, a landlocked country of abject poverty and endemic violence, has never seemed as geopolitically significant as those other cases.
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Paytm, a digital wallet used by more than 230 million people in India to make cashless payments, shared with the Indian government the personal data of users in a geopolitically sensitive region, according to a report published by Cobrapost, an Indian investigative news agency.
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To take full advantage, Moon must overcome his country's geographically and geopolitically precarious position in between not only the United States and North Korea, but also constrained by regional rivalries between China on the one hand, and Japan and the United States on the other.
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In extreme circumstances, it could even contemplate withdrawing from NATO and terminate -- or radically amend -- its customs union with the EU. No scenario can be overlooked should the worst happen and political and economic turmoil leaves devastation in a country as geopolitically critical as Turkey.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has made a lot of geopolitically tone-deaf moves since taking office.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's chosen means for dealing with China are suspect, legally, economically and geopolitically.
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With Russia under severe economic strain and geopolitically isolated, Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinMeet Kim Jong Un, 'King of Korea' — antithesis of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Russia planning to appeal Olympic ban Impeachment and the FBI's Russia probe: Patriotism at its finest MORE went "all in" on Trump.
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I'm just saying that if we don't wake up, face up to this situation and decide to do something about it, there's a considerable risk that in the long run we will disappear geopolitically, or at least that we will no longer be in control of our destiny.
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Its worldwide antitrust fight at the turn of the century; Edward Snowden's leaks which revealed widespread surveillance by America's spooks; the rise in state-sponsored cyber-attacks—such "inflection points", says Mr Smith, forced the company to mature geopolitically, long before its rivals in the case of antitrust.
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"We continue to contend that, given 2018's tightening oil market, any potential geopolitically driven supply disruption would have an outsized impact versus recent years when the market was awash in crude," Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, said in a research note Wednesday.
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The Egyptian government, of course, is not as wealthy as the oil monarchies of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates but you don't need to be a rich country per se to pay some bribes, and Egypt is fully aligned geopolitically with the Saudi and Emirati rulers.
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Washington (CNN)In the months leading up to President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, multiple people associated with Trump, both inside and outside of his administration, were engaged in efforts to change leadership at Naftogaz, Ukraine's geopolitically important state-owned oil and gas company.
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"When you walk into the White House and sit in the chair in the Oval Office and you start looking at the realties of what we face around the globe geopolitically and economically you're going to be looking for a lot of help in a big damn hurry," he said.
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The budget claims to "refocus economic and development assistance to countries of greatest strategic importance to the US." That seems like a clear indication that USAID funds will be skewed more than they already are toward countries the US likes geopolitically, rather than ones that have the most humanitarian need.
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It is as if the world is still stuck in the year 1949, with the one big difference being that NATO has expanded far beyond its original intent, incorporating small, geopolitically insignificant countries that either have meager defense budgets or militaries so small that they don't contribute to NATO's combat power.
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"We see price risk asymmetrically skewed to the upside spurred by geopolitically infused rallies that could shoot prices toward or even beyond our high-end, bull-case scenario and test the $80/bbl mark for intermittent periods this summer," RBC strategists Michael Tran, Helima Croft and Christopher Louney said in a research note.
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The officials said that conclusion was based on three elements: the identities and locations of the victims, which included governments of countries that are geopolitically significant to Turkey; similarities to previous attacks that they say used infrastructure registered from Turkey; and information contained in confidential intelligence assessments that they declined to detail.
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"Providing security along a porous border for the people to gain confidence in the democratically elected government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" sounded a lot better more than a decade ago, when I didn't understand what that was code for: propping up certain heroin traffickers as proxies to control and exploit geopolitically significant real estate.
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Second, Trump's America is unafraid to engage in the raw exercise of power against any foe or friend to gain economic or geopolitical advantage — no matter how big or small — and, at the same time, is ready to overlook any human rights abuse or killing by any country deemed friendly to Trump personally or not interesting to him geopolitically.
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It argues that the last two decades of U.S. foreign policy were an aberration — an era when America became so overwhelmingly more powerful than any rival that it got geopolitically drunk and decided that it didn't just want to be a cop on the beat protecting our nation, but also a social worker, architect and carpenter doing nation-building abroad.
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The U.S. government must broaden relations with Azerbaijan not only because Azerbaijan is geopolitically important or because it is a Western-oriented oil/gas exporter, but because it has partnered with the U.S. in the war on terror, because it allows the movement of troops through Azerbaijan air space to Afghanistan; and, because it is the right thing to do.
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MA: We embarked on a significant reform, and the reform also deals with challenges, both internally, that we will need to deal with, and correct, along the way, it is not going to be a free ride, but also geopolitically, and-, and we are dealing with that, but we are also determined to making sure we play our role, as a catalyst of stability in the region.
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In addition to being geopolitically and diplomatically insane, militarily self-destructive (one of the first people detained under the executive order was an Iraqi national and refugee who worked as an interpreter for the U.S. during the Iraq war), illogical (none of the countries on Trump's list were home to any of the radicalized Muslims who have killed Americans in the U.S. since Sept.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NANJING, China — Recently I had a revelation while walking through the Guggenheim's exhibition Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, where I experienced a unique and familiar kind of dissonance: the broad swath of geopolitically and culturally volatile regions the exhibition claims to encompass is somehow distilled and distanced in a clean, manicured presentation tucked into the side of the institution's iconic ramps.
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"That one-year mark matters a lot to this president," she said Amanda Kadlec, policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, told VICE News that the move was likely to "add fuel to the existing fires" in the region, and raise domestic pressures on Middle Eastern governments aligned to the U.S. Andreas Krieg, a Middle East expert at King's College London, said the move would also undermine U.S. policy in a geopolitically strategic region by further stripping Trump of credibility and legitimacy.
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