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...move troops around, but it can't afford to risk the humiliation of losing a military standoff - and it's far from a foregone conclusion that China's military has the capacity to overrun or even intimidate Taiwan, particularly if the threat of imminent force compels the U.S. to signal support for Taipei. And despite its nationalist pride, Beijing well knows the potentially catastrophic economic consequences of confrontation with the West. Whatever they may wish for, Taiwan's leaders are fully aware of the extremely limited international support for independence - they're much better off goading China and then casting...
...Bush became irritated. "Well, maybe we need to increase the fines during the next legislative session," he said. "I'm a practical person. I'm sorry you're skeptical, or the Sierra Club is skeptical. Sometimes when people don't get their way in politics, they put out a signal: 'Let's be skeptical...
...first Valentine from the U.S. came from Madeleine Albright a year and a half ago. After two decades of both countries' vilifying each other, the U.S. was now ready to explore "normal relations" with Iran, the Secretary of State announced. Since then, Washington has sent one warming signal after another. Officials dialed back Iran-baiting rhetoric and eased criticisms of European governments that had normalized relations with Tehran. The State Department even crossed Iran off its list of major narcotics producers and relaxed the U.S. trade...
...have always suspected that a bank with "Fidelity" in its title was going to lose my money. The mere assertion of loyalty is often enough to signal betrayal. One of the weaknesses of loyalty is that unlike friendship, it requires some outward demonstration or declaration, and so invites insincerity. It is also, by implication, unconditional, and suggests that though you do not agree with the person or institution to which you are expected to stick, you will do so anyway. All this practically guarantees treason...
Today we are engulfed by the signal-carrying waves of broadcast radio and TV. Come 2025, we will be engulfed by a "cybersphere" in which billions of "information structures" will drift (invisible but real, like radio waves) bearing the words, sounds and pictures on which our lives depend. That's because the electronic world will have achieved some coherence by 2025. Instead of phone, computer and TV networks side by side, one network will do it all. TVs and phones and computers will all be variations on one theme. Their function will be to tune in these information structures...