He wants to "pivot to Asia" - believing America has focused too much on the Middle East at the expense of the region that will be a growing source of an American prosperity in the future.
Its Austrian rival, Erste Bank, thinks that retail banking is the main source of profit in the region, and so has bought retail banks with market shares of around 20% in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Together with its genocidal rhetoric against Israel, its calls for the destruction of the US, and its incitement for the overthrow of the governments of Egypt and Jordan, among others, Iran is the single largest source of instability in the region.
But the governor of the region and the biggest source of its revenue is one Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea, a London football club, and the boss of Sibneft, which set up many of its tax-avoidance companies there.
Agricultural cultivation consumes the largest share of water in the Arab region and is a primary source of water stress.
Although the exact mechanism is still not entirely understood, it turns out that illuminating the liquid crystal, applying a voltage across a small region of it, and then turning off the light source causes a small amount of charge to be stored in that region.
They have been, after the government, the sole source of job creation in the region.
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The West Coast relies heavily on the pipeline for a cheap, domestic source of crude, and the region will need to pay a premium to ship in increasing amounts of foreign oil if Alaskan production continues to fall.
However, senior presidential adviser Hwang Won Tak told South Korean television that the two Kims had discussed the possibility of U.S. troops remaining in Korea as a source of stability for the region.
Even though women account in average for 18 % of the members of parliament in the region, they are the source ofonly about 6 % of political news.
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The source of most of the recent storms, a sunspot known as active region 9393 that is 13 times the size of Earth.
Port Hedland had closed three main iron ore ports in the Pilbara region, the world's largest source of iron ore, as the cyclone approached.
Whether directly or through the provision of economic assistance that permits the Syrian government to spend its own limited resources on military equipment, the expansion or upgrading of Syrian forces would be a source of instability in the region.
Of course the region has long been the leading source of headaches to global policy makers, but the possibility of leakage of weapons of mass destruction and the sharp exacerbation of religious tensions in the region seem set to make things even worse.
With over 42, 000 graduates, two-thirds of whom live and work in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, Fox is a major source of management talent in the region and has close relations with business.
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The Americans are particularly keen on this project, because it would provide three of the region's newly independent states with a source of income and so, it is hoped, help to drag them into the West's orbit.
The flow of cash from Filipinos working in the Middle East is also a source of concern, given the discord in the region.
This will be a first sign that the organisation is preparing to play a part in a region that the Bush administration describes as the main source of strategic danger to the western alliance.
Interestingly, Lithuania's nuclear power plant in Ignalina (4) provides a major source of electricity for the region.
It has a keen interest in ending Afghanistan's role as a haven for Islamic terrorists, not least because it sees that as the source of much instability around the region, including in its own Xinjiang province.
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"No project received a larger investment from our Olympic and Paralympic legacy fund and I'm confident this facility will be a source of pride for the region where local people will be inspired to develop a sporting habit for life, " he said.
The Palestinian territories are the largest single source of Muslim migrants, with 5.7 million Palestinians exiting the region for other countries.
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Each variety of lace has long been created by rural women as a source of additional income and has left a permanent mark on the culture of its region.
Last month, CNN reported that Plotnikov and six others died in a July 2012 firefight with Russian forces in the southwestern republic of Dagestan, while Tsarnaev was visiting the region, according to a source briefed on the investigation.
One of the major functions of the biosphere reserve is to provide a possibility for the revival and modernization of floodplain management, which would ensure an extra source of living for local people, and help preserve the natural values of the floodplain region.
Today banks across the region look to the consumer as their source of future profits and try to ply him with credit cards, mortgages, car loans and unsecured credit.
The possibility of an Israeli pre-emptive strike is a further source of instability in an already volatile region.
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