In addition, the 2001 QDR explicitly abandoned the focus of prior defense planning documents on two canonical MTWs, one in Southwest Asia and the other in Northeast Asia.
From the ARF standpoint, just getting all the protagonists in Northeast Asia together for the first time was a triumph.
In fact, the Korean summit portends a reshuffling of the international calculus in Northeast Asia.
Navigating the geopolitical minefield in Northeast Asia is undoubtedly a tricky task.
The canonical Southwest and Northeast Asia scenarios remain.
With the six-party talks in tatters and faced with such a highly explosive situation in Northeast Asia, we the people in this region need to make it loud and clear that the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula will not be tolerated, and that we need peace and development rather than war and confrontation.
That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.
She said the U.S. and South Korea can do more to strengthen their partnership, and called on Congress to pass a bill that would allow more Koreans to get visas to work in the U.S. And she urged President Barack Obama to start a multilateral dialogue process in Northeast Asia to help build trust within the region.
China has indeed reemerged as the dominant strategic power among states in Northeast Asia.
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China has reemerged as the dominant strategic power among states in Northeast Asia.
Secretary Clinton has always been a staunch supporter of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and of course in Northeast Asia.
The initial formulation was based on the concern that the United States might need to deal with aggression at the same time in both Southwest and Northeast Asia.
Clinton, who returned from Asia on Sunday after her first overseas trip as secretary of state, called North Korea's nuclear program "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia" and has said there is a "testing period" at present about how diplomacy can move forward.
Its planned scope pretty much marks out the limits of Washington's alliances in Northeast Asia.
Virtually all oceangoing U.S. trade with the rest of the world now is conducted using vessels built in Northeast Asia and Europe.
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Asia has seen the most rapid deterioration, with the Northeast region in particular suffering a significant slowdown.
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