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An increasingly unpredictable Washington is making the region’s traditional hedging strategy harder to sustain

It is telling that climate risks are increasingly seen as a direct threat to livelihoods and economic security across the region, even as recent events in the Middle East have reinforced the imperative of energy security. Intensifying economic tensions between major powers come next at 51.7 per cent, followed by domestic political instability at 46.1 per cent.

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