Word: embargos
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...Along with a financial crackdown, an international arms embargo against the generals would have an impact without causing wider pain. Without new weaponry provided at discount rates, the junta would have to spend vastly more of its own money equipping the second largest army in Southeast Asia. This would leave far less to support the military's vast parallel social-welfare system, including separate health care and schools for soldiers, which is vital to ensuring the average grunt's loyalty to the generals rather than to the Burmese people...
...comprehensive embargo, led by Asian nations, also would allow the U.S. to step back from the public face of pressure on Burma. The junta, always on the lookout for "neocolonialism," could not portray the action as simply the West ganging up on poor Burma...
...Beijing also fretted that unrest against the Mugabe government might spark local anger at Chinese interests. Chinese diplomats privately admit that Beijing fears that violent instability in Burma might threaten Beijing's investments - in October, with Burmese resentment of China soaring, gunmen fired on the Chinese consulate in Mandalay. Embargo commitments by those Asian giants would push the junta's other weapons suppliers to fall in line, or risk standing alone in their support for the generals...
...Liberia could have produced so many. Prosecutors claim that the revenue from those diamonds was used to purchase weapons. In support of that, The Hague judges were shown photos of an airplane filled with crates that allegedly contained weapons smuggled from the Ukraine into Liberia, despite a U.N. arms embargo...
...going to do—what can you offer to recover the lost ground among Hispanics?” The candidates duly recited their talking points, and assured the moderators that they didn’t hate Hispanics. They broached some substantive topics—the Cuba embargo, Hugo Chavez’s socialist regime in Venezuela—but once again, why couldn’t they discuss these issues in a debate on foreign policy? Only Hispanics care about Chavez? Only blacks care about crime...