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And what looks like a defensive imperative to the US and its Asian allies – building further military capacity in the region to manage China’s rise – could be perceived by China as an aggressive attempt to contain it.
How can China build a legitimate defensive military capability that a great power needs and deserves without worrying its neighbors and the US that it aims to seize disputed territory and aspires to strategic hegemony in Asia?
This should include the provision of defensive lethal assistance to Ukrainian forces; after all, strength deters and weakness provokes.
Machiavellian women, by contrast, may be defensive, anxious, and introverted.
Having scored early (establishing a lead in public-opinion polls), he has found himself in the position of an Italian coach practicing the “catenaccio” tactics of 20 years ago – a purely defensive strategy to keep Sarkozy from coming back.
While the rhetoric of commitment to the round remains, in practice there has been a surrender to defensive lobbies clinging to the status quo.
Key countries must find the political will to confront defensive interests and negotiate with flexibility to reach a market-opening deal.
Even in Ukraine today, despite the escalating civil conflict, the country’s 15 nuclear power plants have remained untouched (though even with new defensive measures taken by Ukrainian officials, this could easily change).
The use of the war to stoke anti-Japanese feelings in China and Korea is annoying to the Japanese, and triggers defensive reactions.
By its nature, our proposed strategy is defensive.
It is time for China "to grow up" and leave its defensive fixation on national sovereignty behind.
As countries reflect on these lessons, they could begin to form defensive regional blocs to protect themselves from the populist contagion.
It ensures that South Korea will adopt a defensive stance against its bellicose neighbor, which opens up the possibility that high-tech US anti-missile batteries will be deployed.
Their voices often reframe the terms of social-policy debate and put the CCP on the defensive.
Merkel’s greatest mistake in this election was to rely on the same defensive strategy that she used in the last two elections, when she won resoundingly.
A future of “thinking drones” and defensive and offensive cyber weapons raises new ethical, legal, and political questions.
Likewise, Merkel’s decisions to phase out Germany’s nuclear-power plants and impose sanctions on Russia, while decisive and hard, were defensive.
Given the heightened tensions within the EU and between Europe and the US, Germany’s habitual defensive politics will no longer suffice.
Thus, both the political and diplomatic landscape across Latin America has been changing rapidly, which has placed the US on the defensive.
As a result, Hatoyama’s administration seems to be trying to emulate South Korea’s former Roh Moo-hyun administration, which foolishly sought to distance that country from its main defensive partner, the US.
Second, many corporations view CSR as an effective defensive strategy against powerful activist NGOs (such as Greenpeace) that have taken to using online agitation, boycotts, and other means to “blackmail” targeted corporations into acceding to the activists’ demands.
After spending so many years on the defensive, India must retake the narrative.
Neither does there exist a Left able to design a progressive, and not merely defensive, strategy for the territorialists.
Given these similarities, many argue that Western powers should emulate their approach to ending the crisis in Yugoslavia – and that means providing “lethal defensive military assistance" to Ukraine.
By eliminating free radicals from our body, we interfere with important defensive mechanisms for eliminating damaged cells, including cancerous cells.
The world is increasingly fragmenting, with fearful people embracing smaller, defensive identities: Scottish, Catalan, Flemish, Sunni, Shia, Kurdish, and so on.
Many countries, including developing ones, will adopt defensive postures, some of which, such as making better use of the domestic market as a driver of growth, will have broadly positive impacts, even if growth prospects are somewhat diminished in the aggregate.
All are outspoken paladins of human rights when it comes to condemning any Israeli defensive attack in Gaza as “genocide,” but are equally united in opposing Security Council action on Syria, even as the repression there grows ever more appalling.
One of the EU’s main challenges is to define success in a defensive era.
Israel, the once implacable enemy of the Arab cause, now seems to be slotted into this defensive structure.
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