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This characterization is heavily biased, and it badly confuses cause and effect. When rockets and mortars are launched over a sovereign nation's borders against innocent civilians, a military reaction is entirely proper (according to U.N. Charter Art. 51), and need not be limited to a “proportionate” response. The attack, not the retaliation, is the “cause” of the escalation...
...sponsors, the foundation drew up a list of eight potential cross-border sites, covering up to 200,000 sq km in 10 southern African countries. A Peace Parks development program was also set up to help local communities manage their natural resources and develop ecotourism. The task involved getting sovereign countries to coordinate passport and customs controls, poaching laws, fencing and road-building plans. "The logistical challenges are enormous," says Peace Parks executive director Willem van Riet, "but so are the rewards. We are looking at the frontiers of a genuine African renaissance...
...policy on China for the past three decades has been based on the "One China" policy, riddled as it is with what policymakers call "strategic ambiguity." The U.S. recognizes that China and Taiwan are ultimately part of the same sovereign entity, but opposes any move to reunify them by force. While it undertakes to supply Taiwan with enough weaponry to ward off invasion by the mainland, it also strenuously avoids sending signals that might encourage the island to declare formal independence - an eventuality that would almost certainly provoke a war across the Taiwan Strait. The long-term view associated with...
...encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 70 miles off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 200 miles offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 12 miles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared that the plane had violated Chinese airspace, landed without permission and thus lost its sovereign immunity--so the Chinese government would be perfectly within its rights to go aboard...
...encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 70 miles off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 200 miles offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 12 miles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared that the plane had violated Chinese airspace, landed without permission and thus lost its sovereign immunity - so the Chinese government would be perfectly within its rights go aboard...