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China’s
defiance
of the PCA’s ruling will deal a crushing blow to international law.
A third illustration concerns Moscow's recent
defiance
of the United Nations war crimes tribunal by hosting a visit of Yugoslav Defence Minister, Dragoljub Ojdanic.
This is a central part of Israel’s policy, in flat
defiance
of international law and customary norms of civilized behavior.
Hezbollah will keep insisting publicly that it yearns for another confrontation, shout defiance, and claim victory.
Two air-force pilots diverted to Malta, followed by a navy warship – all in
defiance
of Qaddafi’s orders to bomb the eastern city of Benghazi.
The Chinese today sound almost as stunned by the supposed mistreatment of the Olympic torch in London, Paris, and San Francisco as Americans were back in 2001: “Why do they hate us so much?”“What have we done to them?”Self-isolated from global political realities and incapable of grasping the meaning of “civil society,” the Chinese regime encourages its public in expressions of
defiance
of all who fail to “respect China,” which only reinforces negative reactions.
Deeply frustrated and angry people – especially in southern Europe – frequently hold up Argentina’s
defiance
of the international community in 2001 as a model.
And two – Pakistan and North Korea – succeeded, in
defiance
of the international community.
The next round of peace negotiations, which opened in December 2004, stalled because the government launched a military offensive just as they started, in
defiance
of the ceasefire.
It has done so in
defiance
of the UN Security Council, even going so far as to bar the UN’s special envoy from travelling to the region to set the stage for talks.
Chinese-style capitalism is flaunting its
defiance
of one Confucius’ basic teachings—don’t worry about poverty, he warned, worry about inequality.
In Syria, children living in Aleppo, Homs, and other cities have been barrel-bombed and gassed by government forces acting in open
defiance
of international law.
Then there was Bush’s capricious War on Terror, followed by Barack Obama’s military intervention in Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, in
defiance
of international law.
It also explains why journalists in those countries have so often bent over backwards to apologize for individual transgressions, rather than stand in
defiance.
In fact, Iran’s
defiance
of the international community over its nuclear program plays a crucial role in holding this coalition together and maintaining Iranian leadership of the anti-American camp in the region.
This was not Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s first act of
defiance
against the military.
But in Burma today, this spiritual philosophy, rooted in compassion and non-violence, has assumed unexpected dimensions of
defiance
and recalcitrance, as monks challenge the hegemony of the military junta that rules our country.
The result was episodes like the Manchurian Incident of 1931, in which Japanese forces in China took military action in
defiance
of the civilian government’s policy.
The move toward authoritarianism in Eastern Europe has been accompanied by outright
defiance
of EU-wide quotas for migrants, aimed at easing the massive refugee crisis that Europe now faces.
But, while the fallout from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
defiance
of international law and public opinion will be very different from that of the Soviet Union’s long campaign to defeat capitalism, the geopolitical ripple effects are certain to be just as far-reaching, if not more so.
Nothing would be sadder than to see them also have to pay for last Sunday’s “No” – a farcical simulation of those earlier noble acts of
defiance.
The Arab Spring is not only a revolt against Arab dictators; it is also a powerful act of
defiance
of the West’s complicity with the region’s tyrants.
In the meantime, they are calling for defiance, not compromises or concessions.
So far, Iran’s leaders have responded to the renewal of US sanctions with
defiance.
The third reason for acting against Saddam is cogent: that his
defiance
of the Security Council since 1991 cannot be allowed to stand.
This would hurt and weaken Saddam, and establish unmistakably the message that
defiance
of the UN carries severe penalties.
Young people’s new message of
defiance
and hope for real change echoes the compelling plea for environmental action by a 12-year-old girl, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.
In an early show of defiance, North Korea seized three Chinese fishing boats, detained a reported 29 people on board for 13 days (during which they were allegedly abused), and then demanded $190,000 in compensation for illegal fishing in North Korean waters.
In a remarkable act of defiance, he threatened that if the European Commission rejected Italy’s national budget, he would re-submit it without change.
Renzi’s
defiance
of fiscal rules that push Italy further into an avoidable debt-deflationary spiral is understandable; but, in the absence of proposals for alternative rules, it leads nowhere.
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