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For example, China produces free media content to be shared locally, provides scholarships to Latin American students and professionals to be “trained” in China, creates partnerships with local universities and think tanks, and opens and operates Confucius Institutes, among other initiatives.
The World Bank’s market-fundamentalist approach to education (and other sectors) resembles that of right-wing think tanks such as the Cato Institute or the Heritage Foundation.
Germany is a democracy firmly anchored in the European Union, and there is no threat of Soviet tanks sweeping across the North German plains.
They also support – directly and indirectly – a vast influence industry, comprising people who pose as independent or moderate commentators, edit the financial press, or produce bespoke “research” at think tanks.
Halogenated fire retardants are added to the fuel tanks of combat airplanes, causing massive damage to the stratospheric ozone layer.
In the first Gulf war it was also found that the Iraqis' Soviet-built tanks and artillery had PCBs (poly-chlorinated biphenyls) in their hydraulic systems for the same reason that combat airplanes use halons.
The extent of destruction of Iraqi tanks during this war is not yet public information, but the same ground pollution can be expected.
If a shooting war ever breaks out in Asia, Japan is nowadays prepared to do a lot more than fill the petrol tanks.
As Japan prospered under America's protection, it prided itself on being a "civilian" power, using its trade and aid, rather than tanks and guns, to encourage stability.
In the United States, at least, we have learned that there is little risk to accumulating more government debt until interest and inflation rates begin to rise above normal levels, or the stock market tanks.
Much of the time the barbarism in Iraq goes unrecorded, as when American tanks sweep into Iraqi neighborhoods and kill dozens of innocents in the name of fighting "insurgents."
In this case, it is through the West agreeing with Saudi Arabia to arm the Free Syrian Army with the defensive weapons that it needs to ground Bashar al-Assad’s aircraft and immobilize his tanks and artillery.
Such shifts include the rising influence of Charles and David Koch, billionaire brothers whose network of think tanks and advocacy organizations has encouraged an ultra-free-market economic agenda among Republican candidates and officeholders at state and national levels.
On November 14, the front page of The New York Times led with the following description: “Army tanks and fighting vehicles blasted their way into the last main rebel stronghold in Falluja at sundown on Saturday after American warplanes and artillery prepared the way with a savage barrage on the district.
First, disappearance of the Soviet bloc deprived Damascus of its Moscow-based strategic umbrella: if Syria finds itself at war with Israel and loses, as in the past, hundreds of tanks and aircraft, there will be no automatic resupply from Moscow.
It will be business pretty much as usual as Europeans prepare cheerfully in the years ahead for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, just up the road from the Russian missiles and tanks on Georgian soil.
Chinese President Xi Jinping did announce a reduction in the size of the military by 300,000 troops in his pre-parade speech, perhaps to reassure observers about China’s peaceful intentions in the region, and as a counterpoint to the display of missiles and tanks.
In Catalonia, victimization has become a campaign strategy, with CiU leaders openly citing imaginary threats from the central government in Madrid, including “Spanish” tanks and “hostile” airplanes above “Catalan airspace.”
Russian tanks are less than 25 miles away, and the wheat fields along the main road to Gori were ablaze, set on fire by Russian troops, as I drove through Russian checkpoints to get to that deserted, occupied city.
All this has been halted by Russian tanks.
(Bush’s inattentiveness to this Russian threat – dramatically illustrated by his literal embrace of Putin in Beijing as Russian tanks rolled into Georgia – may have led the Kremlin to think it could get away with its invasion.)
That Yeltsin’s government used tanks to suppress opposition from a legitimate, though deeply flawed, Duma and has been involved in what, under different circumstances, would have been viewed in the West as a genocidal war in Chechnya, was basically overlooked.
The country’s ramshackle military has tanks that don’t drive, submarines that don’t dive, and planes that don’t fly.
Such acts of discrimination in trade policies find succor in the media and in some of America’s prominent think tanks.
A threat to turn from talks to tanks must be credible, which it will not be if an opposing player can simply count votes to see if the necessary legislative majority exists.
In 1993 Russia’s president ordered his tanks to open fire at his own Parliament, excusing this as necessitated by a threat to democracy.
Two months after the bloodiest coup attempt in Turkish history, Turks still talk incessantly about the surreal bombardments, the televised images of tanks in the street, and the ferocious government response, which has included tens of thousands of arrests.
Today, the think tanks and pressure groups of the organized right are pumping money into Tea Party “branded” sites and events – and altering the message with an increasingly “culture war” slant.
Wassana Nanuam, the military-affairs correspondent of the English-language daily Bangkok Post, has described the move as a “silent” coup d’état: no tanks in the streets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin knows that Ukraine would be no more likely than the US to nuke Moscow for sending tanks into Crimea, or even Dnipropetrovsk.
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