Fighting has increased in eastern Ukraine, as it did before the August 2014 incursion.

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Number one this incursion into your land these past 20 years, and before, the reason anyone is interested in your land, and particularly the United States, it's oil.

Constraining American policy may, therefore, be one of the motivations behind Israel s incursion into Gaza. Yet it is a grave challenge to international peace and could spread instability throughout the region.

During the reporting period, the overall situation in Timor Leste remained calm and stable despite the reported incursion of an armed ex militia group in January and clashes between the military and police.

In country after country, extremist political parties are gaining ground. And Russian President Vladimir Putin s incursion into Ukraine, in the EU s backyard, has turned the common European foreign and security policy into a punch line.

Ironically, the most likely way to avoid large scale confrontation between Fatah and Hamas is through an Israeli incursion into Gaza. Facing the Israelis together is the only way that the rival Palestinian groups will postpone their own bloody showdown.

NEW DELHI Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.

The standoff came to an end on May 6, as suddenly as it had started. India s foreign minister, having earlier termed the incursion a localized incident, had to change his tune under parliamentary pressure, and cautioned China that India might have to reconsider his projected visit to Beijing.

A paralyzed and rudderless Indian government initially blacked out reporting on the incursion, lest it come under public pressure to mount a robust response. Its first public statement came only after China issued a bland denial of the intrusion in response to Indian media reports quoting army sources.

They should abstain from any use of force and also from any encouragement of the use of violence by parties to group conflicts in other States, and should take all necessary measures to prevent incursion by any armed group or mercenaries into other States in order to participate in group conflicts.

Moreover, the Security Council notes with concern the incursion of members of the Lord's Resistance Army into the Democratic Republic of the Congo and welcomes the intention of the Congolese Armed Forces to disarm this group in cooperation with MONUC and in accordance with its mandate as set out in resolution 1565 (2004).

In April, a platoon of Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) border security personnel crossed the so called line of actual control into India s Depsang Valley in Ladakh to erect an encampment, where they remained for almost three weeks. China s leaders have yet to explain what prompted the incursion but there is no shortage of speculation.

LAGUNA BEACH Dark clouds are lowering over Europe s economic future, as three distinct tempests gather the Greek crisis, Russia s incursion in Ukraine, and the rise of populist political parties. Though each poses a considerable threat, Europe, aided by the recent cyclical pickup, is in a position to address them individually, without risking more than a temporary set of disruptions.

To add to India s woes, Salman Khurshid, the country s bungling foreign minister, initially made light of the deepest Chinese incursion in more than a quarter century. The garrulous minister called the intrusion just one little spot of acne on the otherwise beautiful face of the bilateral relationship a mere blemish that could be treated with an ointment.

Some claim that the local PLA commander initiated the stand off, while others contend that China s new president, Xi Jinping, was using the transgression to assert his authority over the PLA. The incursion has even been linked to the scandal surrounding Chongqing s disgraced former Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, who had close ties with high ranking PLA and security services officers.

India should take to heart former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd s prescient observation that China, a nation of foreign and security policy realists, respects strategic strength and is contemptuous of vacillation and weakness. After all, one of the lessons of the 1962 war was that a vacillating response to Chinese aggression is self defeating, particularly in situations like that posed by the incursion at Daulat Beg Oldie.

For India, the Chinese incursion also threatens its access to the 6,300 meter high Siachen Glacier, to the west of Depsang. Pakistan claims the Indian controlled glacier, which, strategically wedged between the Pakistani and Chinese held parts of Kashmir, served as the world s highest and coldest battleground (and one of the bloodiest) from the mid 1980 s until a cease fire took effect in 2003.

China s incursion reaffirms the ancient strategic axiom that geography is the real determinant of history and, as a result, of foreign and security policy, too. Robert Kaplan wisely observes that Indian geography is the story of invasions from a northwesterly direction, and India s strategic challenges still inhere in this fact, which is why Afghanistan, to Indian eyes, is linked to the sub continent s history, and thus our future.

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