Sentence examples for regional flashpoints from inspiring English sources

The threat of war among major powers that haunted Europe for centuries has receded, even if regional flashpoints remain.

Two-thirds of its recorded remittances—$7.2 billion in the year ending June 30th 2010 came from countries in The Economist's shoe-thrower's index of regional flashpoints.

THE simmering dispute between China and Japan over the East China Sea has long been high on the list of possible regional flashpoints.

Has the nuclear deal opened the way for broader discussion of Syria, of Yemen, of Iraq, of the other regional flashpoints, in ways not possible before?

That India is also fighting a home-grown Maoist insurgency has heightened its ambivalence towards Nepal's new government.While trying to manage regional flashpoints, India has also begun to broaden its strategic horizons.

The potential exists for the dam to turn into another regional flashpoint.

But he expressed scepticism that if conflict came to the Taiwan Strait, the main regional flashpoint, any country other than the US would take up arms against China.

The territorial dispute over the islands is a regional flashpoint and an earlier ACRI report set out several "plausible" scenarios which could lead to a conflict between Australia's two largest trading partners.

Each quarterly issue addresses topics such as: the future of international security; trade, finance, and economics; political-military problems; arms control; foreign policy challenges and processes; regional issues and flashpoints.

Near the Rwandan border, Goma has been a bloody flashpoint in regional fighting stretching back to the 1990s, involving well-armed militia groups.

Malcolm Turnbull says there is now "cautious optimism" that a code of conduct can be reached in the hotly disputed region of the South China Sea, despite the dangerous flashpoint overshadowing a regional meeting of Asian leaders in Laos.