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As religious tensions escalate, regional cooperation is in jeopardy.
By contrast, if China’s economic growth slows, which is likely in the coming years, protest against corruption – a source of fragility for any regime – will escalate.
One possibility is that the regime will greatly escalate the killing.
The prospects for friction between EU members escalate.
Its moral authority has been compromised in the Bush years, it cannot put more troops on the ground to defend Georgian sovereignty, and, even if it could, doing so would escalate the crisis.
But, given Armenia’s alliance with Russia and Azerbaijan’s close ties with Turkey, an eruption over Karabakh could very well escalate regionally.
There is no way around a strategy of engagement and containment with regard to North Korea or the crisis will escalate.
As long as the Coalition forces stay, violence is likely to escalate.
But if they leave, it will also escalate, only faster.
As long as the “line of actual control” remains undefined, tensions will continue to escalate – raising serious risks for both countries.
In August, thousands of refugees became stranded at Budapest’s Keleti train station for days on end when Hungary’s vexed and incompetent government deliberately allowed the situation to escalate.
Although President George W. Bush apologized twice for the deaths of the girls, demands continue to escalate for changing the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) that governs the legal treatment of American troops stationed in South Korea.
Specifically, the international community must escalate its response to North Korea’s increasingly unruly behavior, by compelling the country’s leaders to engage in negotiations with world powers regarding its nuclear program.
With the situation threatening to escalate further, both sides need to contain the conflict quickly and restore the status quo.
If China joined this race to the bottom, others would be tempted to escalate their actions and world financial markets would be subject to yet another source of serious instability.
Europe’s leaders claim that they want to avoid giving Russia reason to escalate its war on Ukraine.
But without global coordination, the policy costs would escalate.
Fresh thinking is all the more important when one considers the increased risk of accidents or miscalculations that could escalate tensions, owing to Russia’s military activities along NATO’s borders over the past three years.
Of course, in the face of India's vast advantages in conventional forces, and the flexible nature of India's strategy, there is a grave risk that Pakistan will escalate its response hastily, even to the point of approaching its own ultimate "Samson Option" - use of nuclear weapons.
Second, China could escalate the dispute.
Given that such behavior can quickly escalate, it must be brought under control, especially through the implementation of NATO’s so-called “forward presence.”
And this behavior is set to continue, if not escalate.
If ever there were an opportunity for China and Taiwan to find a way to ensure that future confrontations do not escalate and drag the US into a conflict, it is now.
Any attempt to evacuate them could escalate into a civil war.
Barring that, his administration’s reckless interventions are likely to continue, or even escalate, causing severe damage to the US and the global economy.
But Obama was reluctant to call out Russia publicly or to take strong actions for fear that Russia would escalate by attacking election machinery or voting rolls and jeopardize the expected victory of Hillary Clinton.
That means that developing Asia must escalate its efforts at rebalancing growth by reducing reliance on exports and increasing domestic spending, which would help to prop up import demand.
In particular, it is feared that the Bush administration wants to escalate the anti-terrorist war by spreading hostilities to states America denounces as "rogues."
As the report noted, the huge and highly concentrated banking sector’s problems could “quickly escalate to systemic proportions with serious economic repercussions.”
Iran has threatened to leave the NPT if sanctions are imposed, and Russia and China worry that even modest targeted sanctions could escalate and ultimately legitimize an American use of force that they wish to avoid.
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