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China’s determination to assert its right to economic development has been greeted with a sense of disquiet, if not outright hostility, in many Western capitals.
From India’s point of view, US indulgence of Pakistan became overt hostility when the US sent the Seventh Fleet into the Bay of Bengal in support of the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971.
Indeed, the more Israel gave, the more slander and hostility it faced in many sectors.
But Trump’s hostility toward Europe stems not only from his contempt for the EU’s idea of sovereignty, but also from his obsession with reciprocity.
CANBERRA – When US President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, he blamed “tremendous anger and open hostility” from the North.
Legal and illegal migration triggers far-right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.
It is outright US hostility.
Trump’s praise of Brexit, which emphasized the British people’s “right to self-determination,” and his belittling reference to the EU as “the Consortium” in his appearance with British Prime Minister Theresa May, underscores his hostility.
Is this a historical aberration, or are Islam’s two largest sects condemned to perpetual mutual hostility?
At first, the hostility between India and Pakistan that arose soon after partition thwarted any discussion of the issue.
But there’s only one Trump, and his candidacy is causing conniptions on the part of Republican Party officials, particularly given his campaign’s open hostility toward Latinos.
It should have been obvious that lumping Kim together with Qaddafi – who was overthrown and murdered by rebels in 2011 – would cause North Korea to respond with “anger and open hostility,” as Trump put it in his letter canceling the summit.
With almost daily terrorist attacks, ordinary citizens victimized by shell and gunfire or misconceived bombing, the abuses of Iraqi prisoners, and the hostility of Iraq's Shiites - on whom the US had pinned high hopes for the peace process - American policy is in jeopardy of failure.
Criticism is quickly seen as a sign of hostility or disrespect.
There is no doubt that Iran – with its long history of secrecy and dissimulation – deserves the intense hostility and distrust that its nuclear program continues to engender.
Turkey’s accession talks with the EU have ground almost to a halt, owing partly to outright hostility against Turkey in some EU member states.
Ethnocentrism is bound to distort a people’s relations with the rest of the world, and Israel’s doctrine of power was drawn from the depths of Jewish experience, particularly the eternal, unforgiving hostility of a Gentile world.
Nor is it true that nothing can sway the Arab world from its hostility to Israel.
Hostility against Germany has reached a level unseen in Europe since the end of World War II.
Given Iran’s continued progress with its nuclear program, heeding conservative demands for a return to hostility and antagonism would be a mistake.
Iran, home to one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations, may be willing to end decades of hostility – an outcome that would have a profound influence on the wider Middle East.
Iran and America: Wrestling with Old HatesWASHINGTON, D.C. Iranian/American relations, after a generation of hostility, are beginning to thaw.
Their tardiness in reforming and hostility to capital creates an impression of eurosclerosis that won't attract capital.
Abroad, China’s rise has caused admiration, envy, suspicion, and even outright hostility in some corners.
Such hostility has made the local operations of extractive industries problematic and costly: witness Royal Dutch Shell’s experience in the Niger Delta.
Obama revived relations with Cuba after more than a half-century of deep hostility.
During the 2004 Asia Nations Cup final, which pitted China against Japan, Chinese supporters wore 1930’s-style Japanese military uniforms to express their hostility to the Japanese team.
Hostility on the football pitch merely reflects the existing tense relations between the two countries, which carry the weight of a painful history.
No better opportunity to end decades of bilateral hostility is likely to come along.
The aims of the campaign were laudable, but it generated hostility and ill will, undermining its effectiveness.
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