Anniversary
in sentence
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It is somewhat ironic that, as the world gears up to commemorate the 70th
anniversary
of Japan’s defeat in World War II, the governments of the US and almost every major Asian country are quietly cheering for Abe.
Coming on the tenth year
anniversary
of the Asian financial crisis, the caldron in which today’s ultra-liquid capital markets were forged, conspiracy theories abound.
On the 25th
anniversary
of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, two questions stand out: how has the CCP survived the last quarter-century, and can its rule endure for another 25 years?
Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police detained them and that the couple would be released after the June 4
anniversary
of the Tiananmen Square massacre of fifteen years ago passed.
Indeed, the Party's worst fears were realized this past March just before the 15th
anniversary
of the Tiananmen Massacre.
Since turning out to rally in record numbers on the
anniversary
of the handover to China in 2003, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens have taken peacefully to the streets on various occasions to protest government decisions and demand political reform.
On this 70th
anniversary
of Indian independence, all Indians must rededicate themselves to an inclusive, pluralist, democratic, and just India – the India that Mahatma Gandhi fought to free.
Only last year the two countries commemorated the 50 th
anniversary
of the signing of the US-Japan Security Treaty.
Last November, at a conference marking the Central Bank of West African States’ 50th anniversary, Senegalese President Macky Sall pleaded for an interest-rate reduction.
Hong Kong’s Handover HangoverBANGKOK – Earlier this month, an estimated 100,000 Hong Kong residents gathered in Victoria Park, to mark the 28th
anniversary
of China violent repression of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Yet, just this summer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government sent Vice President Hamid Ansari to Beijing to participate in the treaty’s 60th
anniversary
celebrations.
This year marks one more meaningful
anniversary
for Tibet: the 50th
anniversary
of the founding of what China calls the “Tibet Autonomous Region.”
On the eve of the 20th
anniversary
of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the last man to have embodied a real hope for peace, is a third intifada erupting?
From the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 to the tenth
anniversary
of the euro in 2009, the expected momentum for creating a common European polity was nowhere in sight.
Financial HypocrisyThis year marks the tenth
anniversary
of the East Asia crisis, which began in Thailand on July 2, 1997, and spread to Indonesia in October and to Korea in December.
Even so, the 20th
anniversary
of the establishment of the ICTY is worth celebrating, because the movement it has led has forced military commanders, guerrilla leaders, and heads of state around the world to take into account the possibility that they will face justice if crimes against humanity are committed on their watch.
How to Undermine an AllianceTOKYO – 2010 marks the 50th
anniversary
of the signing of the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
On December 26, Abe will shake hands with Obama at Pearl Harbor – weeks after the US marked the 75th
anniversary
of the Japanese attack there – to reciprocate Obama’s visit to Hiroshima’s atomic bomb sites last May.
CAMBRIDGE – This year marks the hundredth
anniversary
of a transformative event of modern history.
And as we approach the first
anniversary
of Trump’s inauguration, his immigration policies should give pause to those taking comfort in the idea that American democracy has not yet been fatally undermined.
The 90th
anniversary
of the Armenian massacres of 1915, ordered by the ruling Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire and carried out with the help of the Kurds, is another wound that will not heal, but one that must be treated if Turkey’s progress toward European Union membership is to proceed smoothly.
Reconciling Chinese National Security and Economic GrowthHONG KONG – Earlier this month, at a conference to commemorate the 40th
anniversary
of China’s “reform and opening up,” President Xi Jinping underscored the tension between the continuation of that process and the imperative of protecting national security.
As he put it at the 40th
anniversary
conference, “We must resolutely reform what should and can be changed, we must resolutely not reform what shouldn’t and can’t be changed.”
They repeated ad nauseam that the cathedral was constructed as a monument to the victory over Napoleon, the 200th
anniversary
of which is being commemorated this year.
For his part, Modi has declared building toilets more important than building temples, and he has launched a campaign to end open defecation in India by 2019, to coincide with the 150th
anniversary
of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s birth.
The
anniversary
of those events is April 24.
CAMBRIDGE – Next year marks the 50th
anniversary
of the United States-Japan Security Treaty, a central feature of stability in East Asia for half a century.
This
anniversary
should have provided ample reason for a heated debate about the successes and failures of German reunification and for offering a vision for Germany and Europe for the next 20 years.
Consulting that diary over the last few months, as I write a book partly about my experience there, I have discovered several passages describing China’s “struggle” school of diplomacy – one that endures even today, as we approach the 20th
anniversary
of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty.
President Xi Jinping would do well to take the opportunity offered by the handover’s 20-year
anniversary
to reaffirm China’s commitment to the joint declaration – and then to follow through on that affirmation.
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