And the value of missile defense could not be clearer given recent North Korean belligerence.
North Korea's escalating belligerence points to the need for Tokyo and Seoul to increase cooperation.
Kowtowing to Chinese truculence does nothing to enhance liberalizing forces within China or inhibit diplomatic belligerence.
Trade, and the mutual dependencies that result from it, will eliminate belligerence between powers, liberals suppose.
Mr Putin, despite his belligerence about the 1990s, is the very epitome of that period.
Mr. Kwiecien's all-out belligerence is theatrically convincing and unsettling, so you do not miss the vocal sheen.
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He may counter the belligerence of Mr Netanyahu and his defence minister, Ehud Barak, on that score.
Inefficiency and belligerence of insurance companies can lead to the high value of hire charges per claim.
The reaction to the latest display of Chinese belligerence also spilled over into the U.S. presidential campaign.
Only the year-end sums will tell if this wave of fiscal belligerence has won benefits outweighing the costs.
China is North Korea's only ally and major trading partner, but has grown increasingly frustrated with its growing belligerence.
Many civilian Chinese experts agree that North Korea's belligerence is damaging China's interests.
The Abkhaz also know that the only reason for the sudden interest in their plight is Russia's increasing belligerence.
In the meantime, its belligerence is stiffening criticism in America's Congress, just as two important pieces of legislation are being considered.
Until now, the United States has chosen its Arab friends for their stability, their anti-radicalism, their oil, and their non-belligerence towards Israel.
In the wake of China's latest belligerence, the Senate should follow suit, if its leadership will bring the bill up for a vote.
Analysts said Kim's death poses an immediate and serious foreign policy crisis for Washington and its allies, given nuclear-armed North Korea's history of belligerence.
The U.S. and Asian nations are increasingly alarmed by the growing belligerence of North Korea under its new young leader Kim Jong Eun.
"North Korea must understand that belligerence towards its neighbors and defiance of the international community are signs of weakness, not strength, " Gibbs' statement said.
They are the same people who suggest that a hard line -- belligerence on the diplomatic scene and economic suffocation -- would deliver better results.
Why would anyone think such a response this time will be met by anything but more of the same sort of belligerence from North Korea?
He was then roundly denounced for his insensitivity and his belligerence.
U.S.-South Korean "counterprovocation plan" completed earlier this month, Seoul will have a framework for responding to the North's belligerence, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
No amount of backpedalling by the Obama administration can make up the damage caused by its act of belligerence against Israel at the NPT review conference.
And so this latest incident, I think, is certainly his continuation of that overall belligerence and unstable action plan that he's had in play for some time.
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Under a U.S.-South Korean "counterprovocation plan" completed earlier this month, Seoul will have a framework for responding to the North's belligerence, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
In an unscientific, underground poll inside Iran, taken in 2005, the Iranian people, not the regime, overwhelmingly expressed their disapproval of the Iranian regime's anti-Israel policies and belligerence.
Given Israel's perceived weakness in the wake of last summer's war and Syria's perceived strength, speaking to Damascus about an Israeli surrender of the Golan Heights will only encourage Syrian belligerence.
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