Economic issues Asia and Europe

Asia and Europe share some important similarities.

Source: Google Images

• On the broadest perspective, they are two regions with very long histories, proudly and firmly anchored national cultures and, on a darker note, frequent conflict between their constituting countries. I said earlier that Europe considers itself to have some expertise in regional integration. It is however worth recalling that what we have seen since 1945 is the aberration. Previous attempts at integration were either peaceful and not implemented or implemented and not peaceful.



• Economically, as regions not endowed with many natural resources, they are open to foreign trade and investment, and therefore have a strong common interest in an open international economic and financial system.



• Both regions have been hit in the nineties by serious economic, currency and banking crises, they share the same ambition to better control the forces of economic and financial globalisation, in order to create a stability-oriented economic and financial system that promote high and sustainable growth and improve welfare.



• Both regions have complex models of society, which put a high price on the need to control the forces of globalisation. They are seeking to preserve the positive features of complex economic and social models, while taming the excesses of unfettered globalisation and retaining the capacity to change in the face of rapidly evolving circumstances.



• Finally, neither region is well defined geographically. The land boundary between Asia and Europe is a historical and cultural construct that is subject to various interpretations. For my purposes I will take Europe to mean essentially the EU, while Asia means ASEAN, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ASEAN+3).

The two regions are also very different.

• Economic diversity is more pronounced in Asia, ranging from countries with highly modern economies to others that are still poor and with traditional, mostly rural, economic structures. In contrast, the European Union has become especially over the last decade a much more homogenous economic grouping. That will of course change in the near future as the EU enlarges towards the east. According to World Bank data, on a purchasing power parity basis, the difference of per capita GNP between the richest (Luxembourg, 38,247$ PPP) and poorest (Greece, 14,595$ PPP) members of the EU amounted to 162% in 1999. The difference is 680% if one takes the poorest of the candidate countries (Bulgaria, 4,914$ PPP). In Asia, the difference amounts to about 2000% between the richest (Singapore, 27,024$ PPP) and the poorest (Cambodia, 1,286$ PPP).



• A more fundamental difference is the degree and timing of efforts made towards deeper regional integration. Since 1945 Europe has been more ambitious than Asia in making explicit a political goal of building an ever-closer union among its peoples. European efforts stem directly from the sheer extent of material devastation and moral exhaustion brought by the two World Wars. They also reflect a longing for the restoration of a probably hypothetical golden age of European unity. This has led Europeans to accept a significant pooling of sovereignty over a whole range of political as well as economic issues.

Now you know the economical issueses of Euroup and Asia. It is a really different from Europ and Asia what are seeing now.

environmental issues

Source: Wikipedia and Google

We have lots of environmental issues or problems such as ..............

• Global Warming



• deforestation



• storms



• floods

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.
Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest land use such as arable land, pasture, urban use, logged area or wasteland. Generally the removal or destruction of significant areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity. In many countries, massive deforestation is ongoing and is shaping climate and geography.
A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation, such as ice (ice storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, hailstorm, etc).
A flood is an overflow of water.
You see, all this is happening now. How can we stop these disasters. It brings chaos with it and when it hits our country it spreads its chaos with it!

A tanker sank in the deep water of the Philippines and the oil is leaking out and washing up on the beaches. This makes for the usual oil tanker mess and ruins the fish and tourism trades at least for a few years while the tanker empties out it's to deep to salvage the cargo without spending huge amounts of money the Philippines doesn't have. This is one heavy problem too!

Another problem. Hard as it may sound to those overcome by the sheer magnificence of this mountain chain, the majestic Himalayas are surprisingly vulnerable to both natural processes and man-made ones. The mountain chain is young and, as has been proved in recent years, it is still geologically active. The Indian landmass continues to move towards the Eurasian landmass as a result of which the Himalayas rise by a few millimeters every year. Due to this, the Himalayas are still structurally unstable.
Orchids ofArunachal Pradesh, IndiaCredit: Karamjeet SinghThe Himalayas also feature a fragile ecosystem. For centuries, this ecosystem has remained delicately balanced, and has been responsible for the tremendous biodiversity of the Himalayas. Only in recent years has the ecosystem been disturbed in various parts due to processes both man-made and natural.
Man has also been responsible to a large extent for some of the environmental problems faced by the mountains. As he strives for industrialization, modernization and the so-called higher standard of living, man has disturbed the natural ecosystems of many parts of the world. The Himalayas have been no exception. Over the centuries, pilgrims and explorers have visited the mountains. However, in the past their numbers were few and the Himalayan ecosystem, fragile as it is, was able to cope with the effects of human exploration in the areas. But today, the story is different. In the last few decades, an intricate network of roads have been built into the mountains, which have made some of the most remote areas more easily accessible. This has translated into a tremendous increase in the numbers of people who visit the mountains every year. The Himalayas are now being exploited, to the hilt in many areas, to provide materials for the growing number of forest-based industries. Thus, it is not a surprise that environmental problems have emerged in the Himalayan region.

And if we keep on countinuing what we are doing right now like building a network in the mountains, we will have only very few natural environment. It will be very terrible if you see the future if we dont stop what are doing right now.

political conflict

Source: Google

Conflict is a state of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility between two or more people or groups of people, which is sometimes characterized by physical violence. Military conflict between states may constitute war.In political terms, "conflict" refers to an ongoing state of hostility between two or more groups of people.

There are a lot of political conflicts like .........................

• wars



• riots



• rallies

Political conflicts could be very dangerous because you could die instantly. And that political problem is war. War could last forever affecting everyone in the country. It could lead everyone to death. War happens because the leaders or the presidents do not get through with each other. They did not settle things diplomatically.

There are a lot of political conflicts. These are more than hundreds and riots are also one of the most dangerous political problems. It is called riot when group of people who are against the government complain what the government is doing. It leads to a physical fight between the two opposing groups.

Violence against civilian population is one of the characteristics of contemporary wars. These are no longer fought between states but, increasingly, within the national borders and between the military and paramilitary groups, liberation armies, etc. The consequences of these conflicts are, apart from genocide, vast displacement of the population and the destruction of the natural environment. Taking as a point of departure recent theoretical approaches in the social sciences, this module will illuminate causes and consequences of the political conflicts and forced migration. The module will put a special emphasis on the study of violence, migration, exile and repatriation seen in a comparative perspective.

The Conflicts Forum was created in 2004 by Alastair Crooke, a former security adviser to the European Union and Mark Perr, a military, intelligence and foreign affairs analyst and writer. It seeks to encourage dialogue between Western and Islamic groups. Its website provides information on the aims of the organisation and access to full text press releases, articles and briefing reports. These contain discussion of the relationship between political Islam, fundamentalism and security; relations between American foreign policy and Islamic nations and groups in the Middle East. reference is made specificially to Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.

The immediate Causes of World War II are generally held to be the German invasion of Poland, and the Japanese attacks on China, the United States, and the British and Dutch colonies. In each of these situations, the attacks were the result of a decision made by authoritarian ruling elites in Germany and Japan. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war or armed resistance.This is the world's best political conflict World War II. This war lasted 3-4 years in Europe until Hitler died and lasted 5 years in the Pacific when the nuclear bombs were dropped and exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, taking many lives.

The effects of political conflicts are poverty, pollution, and economic failure. These conflicts will not do any good in the country. These effects will kill inocent people who will die by pollution and poverty.

Now you know what is political conflict and all of us should not like this so that there will be no war, riots, rallies, and etc.