Containment, not Appeasement

Containment Begins at Home

The Containment Debate, Round Two

The Economics of Strategic Containment

Fortunately, once in office, the Eisenhower administration had the sense to stick with containment in Europe, continuing a policy that is widely credited for winning the Cold War. President John F. Kennedy s insistence, against much advice, on containment during the Cuban missile crisis saved the world from nuclear war.

(a) Containment Sites or facilities, fixed or mobile, meeting the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) of high or maximum containment for work with human and animal pathogens, or with containment for working with plant diseases

The US, like Australia, denies that all of this adds up to a policy of containment aimed at China. But few in the Western Pacific see it that way.

But this our containment of the visible universe.

We'll fly outside it here, just to see this sort of containment.

No State could have achieved this degree of containment on its own.

Be it containment or rollback, the rules of the game should be clear.

The West s response will be a new containment policy, mainly taking the form of economic and diplomatic measures. Europe will reduce its energy dependence on Russia, review its strategic alignment and priorities, and scale back investment and bilateral cooperation.

One of two things will happen either tighter containment of Iran through sanctions on oil exports will produce positive results and weaken Iran, or containment will fail, leading the US inexorably toward a new war in the Middle East. It is not unlikely that some in US foreign policy circles regard the deepening Iraqi crisis as a building block in constructing the case for military intervention in Iran.

It is designed to provide a solid containment for the remnants of the reactor.

Measurements were made when the warheads were in various levels of containment and shielding.

Nonetheless, the US seems destined to remain the world s most important actor for the foreseeable future. But today it is an actor without a script it lacks a strategic guide comparable to the Cold War s containment doctrine to prioritize policy.

The Pentagon s East Asia Strategy Review, which has guided American policy since 1995, offered China integration into the international system through trade and exchange programs. Although the US hedged its bet by simultaneously strengthening its alliance with Japan, this does not constitute containment.

It was the only global treaty dedicated to the containment and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.

So then you have the villain containment unit, where kids put their parents. You have the office.

We back so far up we're finally seeing a containment around us the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Besides, what would a containment policy applied to Russia today look like? Russia s leaders, tucked behind the political safety cushion provided by high energy prices, rightly feel that time is working in their favor, that we in the West need Russia more than Russia needs us.

In the 1990s, when US President Bill Clinton s administration was considering how to respond to China s increasing economic might, some urged a policy of containment. Clinton rejected that advice It would have been impossible to forge an anti China alliance, given the enduring desire of China s neighbors to maintain good relations with it more important, such a policy would have guaranteed future enmity with China.

The GT Act regulates dealing with all GMOs and, depending on the dealing, may impose conditions such as containment requirements.

China s anxiety about a supposed US containment policy is on the rise again, now that Clinton is insisting that the country s maritime disputes with its neighbors be placed on the agenda at next year s East Asia Summit in Manila, which will be attended by Obama, Hu Jintao, and other regional leaders.

China will most likely regard the cooperation agreement recently announced by the Japanese and Indian defense ministers as a response to US pressure. Its leaders will again suggest that a policy of containment is being pursued, and that this Cold War strategic concept is inimical to peaceful development in the Western Pacific.

The Chinese economy will continue to grow the Chinese military will continue to modernize and the Chinese people will remain united in their Great Power aspirations. A Cold War style confrontation and containment policy from the West will be met with strong resistance from the Chinese, whose global leverage, particularly in finance, cannot be ignored.

This is also partly Bush s doing, or, rather, not doing, as his first term policy on health spending was to do virtually nothing to encourage efficiency and cost containment. Instead, he enacted a Medicare drug benefit that promises to spend enormous amounts of money for surprisingly little in the way of better health care.

The Gene Technology Regulator also certifies containment facilities known to be used for gene technology work and some not used for gene technology work.

Whereas the US and the Soviet Union had limited trade and social contact, the US is China s largest overseas market, welcomed and facilitated China s entry into the World Trade Organization, and opens its universities gates to 125,000 Chinese students each year. If current US policy towards China is supposed to be Cold War style containment, it seems unusually warm.

What do we do when we don't have any containment rooms with reverse air that will allow the healthcare workers to take care of patients?

The spray dryers at Al Hakam lacked the required biological safety containment features, which Iraqi scientists recognized as a necessary condition for their own protection.

Considerations related to the low level of biological containment were major factors in the initial perception of the unsuitability of Al Hakam for the production of pathogens.

Member states are divided between those that view Russia as a potential partner which can be drawn into the EU s orbit through a process of creeping integration, and those that view Russia as a threat whose expansionism and contempt for democracy must be rolled back through a policy of soft containment. The last few years demonstrate that neither approach will work.

American military forces do not aspire to contain China in Cold War fashion, but they can help to shape the environment in which future Chinese leaders make their choices. I stand by my testimony before the US Congress of 1995 in response to those who, even then, wanted a policy of containment rather than engagement Only China can contain China.

Again, maintaining realistic expectations must be paramount. A successful outcome in the nuclear negotiations and resolution or even containment of the main regional conflicts will be difficult to achieve.

According to the CDB, in the public sector, containment of expenditures, particularly on capital items, offset revenue shortfalls and led to an improvement in the Government's overall fiscal position.7

Indeed, in the wake of the invasion of Georgia, China may be seriously rethinking its relations with Russia. It may not yet be ready to embark on a full fledged policy of containment, but in the wake of the dismemberment of Georgia and with Russia claiming a zone of privileged influence throughout the former Soviet world China clearly views Russia as an emerging strategic threat.

When, however, the very lives of migrants were in jeopardy, the main concern had to be with the human rights of migrants and not with policies for the containment of migration.

Considerations related to the low level of biological containment were major factors in the initial perception of the unsuitability of Iraq's dedicated biological weapons production facilities for the production of pathogens.

The weapons inspectors were pulled out, and America opted for preemptive war. Bush was portrayed as facing down a new Hitler with Churchillian resolve, and advocates of containment were accused of appeasement.

The trend towards regionalization of solutions to refugee situations, however, could be interpreted as a new form of containment of refugee movements, and hence a derogation from the principle of international responsibility.

It was assumed that the very low level of biological containment in the facility prevented it from being used for the production of dangerous pathogens and that its equipment was not suitable.

However logical or attractive a containment policy might be, and however disastrous the consequences of bombing are likely to be, Obama s commitment to realizing global denuclearization as part of his legacy implies that he will not allow another country to acquire a nuclear weapon on his watch, as his predecessors allowed India, Israel, North Korea, and Pakistan to do. Thus, the stakes for both the US and Iran are very high.

As the US stubbornly pursues a policy of containment toward China exemplified in its fight against the AIIB s establishment, its relentless accusations of currency manipulation, and its refusal to ratify IMF reforms that would increase China s influence it risks losing its ability to shape what comes next. The result could be a world of fragmented blocs an outcome that would undermine not only global prosperity, but also cooperation on shared challenges.

Finally, the Transboundary Movements of Genetically Modified Organisms Regulation 1946 2003 includes requirements relating to medium and high risk genetically modified micro organisms in containment and their entering or leaving of the EU.