As if the conflict were not already complicated enough, China has adopted an increasingly assertive stance in the area, including several incursions into disputed territory. For example, last year, Chinese troops established a temporary camp in Ladakh s Depsang valley, leading to a high stakes standoff with India.

The absence of laws mandating force to block separatist activity has never stopped Chinese authorities from brutally persecuting individuals and groups who have called for an independent Tibet or Xinjiang. There is thus little reason to believe that a more explicitly assertive stance is necessary for dealing with the splittist government in Taipei.

That they share the same life stance and membership in a life stance organization does not change this situation.

This amounted to an escalation of China s already assertive stance in the region, with Chinese President Xi Jinping routinely sending maritime surveillance and fishery law enforcement ships to the waters surrounding the islands, spurring protests in South Korea and Japan. The US, prompted by its allies anger, dispatched two B 52 bombers into the ADIZ.

In February, Egypt s Coptic patriarch, Pope Tawadros II, sharply criticized the country s leadership in a televised interview, calling the new constitution discriminatory and dismissing Morsi s national dialogues as an empty gesture. This unusually assertive stance reflects rising frustration among Christians, as well as the secular and liberal opposition, with the Muslim Brotherhood s power monopoly.

With the rise of non traditional threats, Europeans are increasingly overlooking classical security risks like inter state warfare, believing that they are no longer relevant a notion that is reflected in the ESS. But, as China s increasingly assertive stance in the South and East China Seas starkly demonstrates, this idea is not only wrong it can be very dangerous.

2.2 At the same time, pupils so exempted had the right to participate in a non denominational alternative life stance subject life stance knowledge .

So powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic.

But, though China may not struggle to finance its Silk Road ambitions, it is likely to face political resistance especially with regard to the maritime route. At a time when China s assertive stance in the South and East China Seas is provoking anxiety among its neighbors including Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore the Silk Road initiative has aroused significant geopolitical apprehension.

A longer term concern is the rise of China an economic and demographic powerhouse whose expanding military capacity has enabled it to take an increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes, including with Japan in the East China Sea. China s territorial ambitions are also fueling tensions in the South China Sea, where sea lanes that are vital to Japanese trade are located.

It is time for the Assembly to be more assertive within the mandate accorded it by the Charter.

Hence, we need a stance of problem fixing, not just problem avoidance.

3.1 Unn and Ben Leirvåg have a non religious humanist life stance.

6.2 Kevin did not start school with a fully developed life stance.

Thailand's experience has taught us that, ultimately, developing nations can and should become equal and assertive partners in our own development.

Thus, China s rulers acted in character last December, when they cracked down on news organizations that were getting a bit too assertive.

A number of pupils thus participated in neither the Christianity nor life stance subjects.

I commend the constructive stance by the new Iraqi authorities in this humanitarian matter.

Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.

The representative of Germany has lately taken an inappropriate stance with respect to Algeria's position.

It is crucial to re evaluate our stance on arms control, disarmament and non proliferation.

This assertive and high profile operation immediately established the visibility and authority of EUFOR and made a positive early impact both nationally and internationally.

The exemption arrangement stigmatises in that it obliges the authors to state which segments of the CKREE subject are problematic in relation to their own life stance, which in turn will appear as a deviation from the commonly held life stance.

The US stance has drawn backlash from Germany, which has reaffirmed its commitment to the project.

In implementing the unitary United Nations concept, Member States would need to be far more assertive in guiding and setting the policy agenda of agencies.

Armenia's intransigence and non cooperative stance in this respect inevitably cloud bilateral relations between the two countries.

Therefore, the compulsory CKREE subject represents a violation of the authors' rights to display an independent life stance.

Cuba wished to acknowledge New Zealand's cooperative and open stance and urged other administering Powers to follow that example.

Her delegation urged the international community to adopt a stronger stance on Israel's illegal policies against the Palestinian people.

The life stance they believe in is only represented by small fragments and totally without a whole and consistence.

Russia is not becoming assertive, aggressive, or imperial, as many observers claim. We are only claiming what is rightfully ours a place in the front row of international relations.

A passing knowledge of historical trends might have made for a more cautionary stance see O Rourke and Williamson, 1999.

He regretted that the European Union, in its resolution, had decided to join the confrontational stance of the United States.

We fully endorse the G 21's stance that nuclear disarmament is the highest priority for the Conference on Disarmament.

This prospect is hardly encouraging. If abuses and repression in the provinces continue no matter how attentive the central government, or how assertive the press might have become, what then?

7.7 In relation to the children, it is submitted their right to choose and hold a religion or life stance of their own is violated, in that the compulsory CKREE subject forces them to participate in a learning process that includes indoctrination into the direction of a religious Christian life stance.

This is an idea that we got from a fellow TEDster here, Dan Dennett, who talked about taking the intentional stance.

The statement this week further discloses the dangerous stance of this United Nations Member State against another United Nations Member State.

They did not wish to see their daughter participate in CKREE classes, where textbooks are in conflict with their life stance.

Such a firm stance by the Security Council was expressed by the adoption of resolution 1612 (2005) on children and armed conflict.

A rising China, a resurgent Japan, an assertive Russia, and an anachronistic North Korea have added new complexities and uncertainties to the region. The latter s pursuit of nuclear arms is particularly worrying.

This four year strategy will result in the provision of much needed services (Crisis Management, Case Management, Assertive Community Treatment Teams and Early Intervention) to an additional 78,000 people by 2007 2008.

Report of Reuters on September 28 in Brussels The European Union took a non confrontational stance against Italy on Friday after Italy looked down upon EU demands and surprised the market with a massive budget deficit plan. But if Italy stuck to a too bold goal, the EU might take a more radical stance.

We also view it as a vindication of his stance to maintain the independence, objectivity and impartiality of the work of the Agency.

By and large, the survey indicated that the domestic violence investigators have a more positive stance towards battered women than the patrol officers.