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...could take other military steps in opposition. In October 1999, China joined forces with Russia in cosponsoring a United Nations resolution calling for adherence to the ABM Treaty. In February, China spoke out in the Conference on Disarmament about preventing an arms race in outer space. A Chinese missile buildup could fuel the arms race between India and Pakistan...
...five are showing signs of deterioration (see the graphics on these pages). The report's maps and charts capture the stunning scale and character of human impact on the planet. One set reveals the degree to which agricultural lands have been degraded around the world by the buildup of salts and the loss of nutrients; another locates oceanic dead zones caused by pollutants flowing to the sea from rivers; another shows the degree to which productive parts of the sea floor have been destroyed by trawling; another highlights how much humanity has altered coastlines. Many of the statistics are staggering...
Conservatives believe that SDI, along with the massive American military buildup in the '80s, was the strategy by which Reagan forced the Soviets to bankrupt themselves, hastening the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The timing of those events, at the end of the Reagan years, disconcerts Reagan's critics. They claim that the Soviet collapse was the result of long years of economic inefficiency and deterioration, and of Gorbachev's loosening of the bolts through glasnost and perestroika...
...between two countries perennially on the brink of war. "The U.S. would like nothing more than to reverse India and Pakistan's nuclear programs, but Washington has no realistic way of doing that," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller. "So the immediate concern is to stop the nuclear buildup on both sides and develop mechanisms that minimize the potential for nuclear warfare between the two countries. Remember, while each side has a collection of nuclear weapons, they have little by way of structures and procedures governing their use - mutual surveillance systems, hotlines and all the other comprehensive mechanisms developed...
...could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would inevitably draw in the U.S. During the 1996 Taiwan election, Beijing fired missiles over an outlying island and the U.S. responded by sending a naval battle group into the strait. But for all the bluster and buildup of missiles on the coastline of Fujian province, however, China right now lacks the military means to mount an effective invasion - a naval force capable of rapidly deploying tens of thousands of troops on the island, and an air force capable of dominating the skies...