They want the government to de-militarize opposition to the protest,
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This will sow fear in immigrant communities and militarize metropolitan neighborhoods.
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In his first season as a trainer he tried to militarize samba.
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We have sovereignty there, so we can choose whether to militarize it.
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"How much do we want to militarize our communities?" she asked me.
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Unsurprisingly, the drug war has helped to militarize the culture of policing.
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Instead, there are plans to militarize a wall on our southern border.
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"I don't agree that we are unilaterally starting to militarize these islands," said Putin.
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All the country's presidential candidates on Thursday criticized Trump's plan to militarize the border.
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But his proposal to militarize the border has sparked a diplomatic row with Mexico.
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They are one small part of a new Russian program to militarize the Crimean peninsula.
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As Commander of Oregon's Guard, I'm deeply troubled by Trump's plan to militarize our border.
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So the question here is: Will the North Korea's aggressive provocations finally push Japan to militarize?
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"A lot of people militarize veganism, and it's important not to do that," Ms. Quichiz said.
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They say the islands are Chinese territory and Beijing therefore cannot militarize land it already owns.
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Prodromos Prodromou, a spokesman for the Cypriot government, said the island had no desire to further militarize.
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Governments run migrant prison camps, separate families, militarize, terrorize, surveil, and relegate people to lives forever changed.
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The bunkers are just one small part of a new Russian program to militarize the Crimean peninsula.
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"As Commander of Oregon's Guard, I'm deeply troubled by Trump's plan to militarize our border," she said.
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We should all prepare to resist Trump's upcoming plans to further militarize the border and target immigrant communities.
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The State of North Dakota decided to militarize that situation, people saw unarmed people on horses facing tanks.
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But the answer to our national epidemic of racist police killings is not to further militarize law enforcement.
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On the atrocity side, some analysts believed that the Space Force constituted a dangerous plan to militarize space.
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In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China had no intention to militarize its outposts in the Spratly islands.
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At the same time, the Pentagon is directing additional funds to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border, extending troop deployment.
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The United States has urged China and other claimants not to militarize their holdings in the South China Sea.
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The deployments contradict assurances that Mr. Xi made to President Barack Obama in 2015 not to "militarize" the area.
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He will probably repeat his statement from last fall that China does not intend to militarize the South China Sea.
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Advocates of escalating the War on Looting might do well to examine other attempts to militarize the fight against illicit trafficking.
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Even If I did, though, no one would mourn: There's enough ass here to feed, house, and militarize a small town.
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It's the clearest indication yet that China aims to militarize the waters; Japan wants to patrol and control most of it.
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Even when it was unpopular, in 2009, I stood up to Democrats and Republicans alike who wanted to militarize the border.
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"My personal opinion is we don't want to overly militarize or overly build up the threats in the Arctic," he said.
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In the Pentagon's Wednesday statement, it accused Xi of going back on his promise not to militarize the South China Sea.
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Obama pressured Xi to stop, and, in the Rose Garden, Xi said that China had "no intention to militarize" the islands.
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In response to a tweet Trump sent out, threatening to militarize the border, AMLO responded by saying he wouldn't stand for it.
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In 2016, Xi stood in the Rose Garden next to President Obama and said China would not militarize the South China Sea.
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"The picture would become even worse were China to build and militarize a similar island base at Scarborough Shoal," Mr. Shugart wrote.
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There is no reason to erect a wall or militarize the border outside the delusional world that the Trump administration has created.
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He then carried out a campaign to militarize the white-power movement and conducted paramilitary training in the woods of North Carolina.
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The Pentagon said on Tuesday the missile launch was "disturbing" and contrary to Chinese pledges that it would not militarize the strategic waterway.
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If the internet gets undermined by special interests or corporations, if governments are allowed to militarize cyberspace, the internet will become something different.
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They warned that the measure would lead to abuses, leave troops on the streets indefinitely and militarize police activities for the foreseeable future.
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Rogue One is about a group of political terrorists that militarize and radicalize the last remaining factions of the resistance to Emperor Palpatine.
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You say you will militarize the border but I pray to God that with our evidence of persecution you won't send us back.
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Beijing continues to militarize artificial islands in the South China Sea, reportedly by deploying surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles to them.
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" Senator Bernie Sanders said via Twitter "maybe, just maybe" the government should guarantee healthcare "before we start spending billions to militarize outer space.
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López Obrador only stoked concern that the force would further militarize public security in Mexico, when he pushed for generals to oversee the force.
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Threats to blow up Nafta, cut aid to Honduras and Colombia, and militarize the United States border with Mexico have underscored Mr. Trump's contempt.
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To hear civil libertarians tell it, Montana's recent push to de-militarize the police has its roots in the Bozeman BearCat incident of 2014.
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During a September visit to the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had no intention to militarize the South China Sea.
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The United States has urged China and other claimants not to militarize their holdings there, prompting repeated denials from China that it is doing so.
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And Trump's insistence that Mexico militarize its southern border with Guatemala has drained its army of the manpower it needs to fight the drug cartels.
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The Philippines will reinforce, but not militarize, areas in the South China Sea controlled by Manila to maintain the geopolitical balance, Duterte said on Monday.
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The US has expressed concerns about China's efforts to militarize the region via the construction of military facilities on some of these man made islands.
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When they militarize it, it's Donald Trump -- MICHELLE CARUSO-CABRERA: I hear that, but I want to talk about where the trade war is going.
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Since taking office in 2014, Hernandez, a 47-year old conservative lawyer, pushed a plan to militarize police that has helped curb the murder rate.
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Visiting Washington in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping responded to U.S. worries by saying that China had no intention to militarize its outposts in the Spratlys.
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Despite assurances to the contrary, Beijing has continued efforts to militarize artificial islands it built in its neighbors' exclusive economic zones in the South China Sea.
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Visiting Washington in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping responded to US worries by saying that China had no intention to militarize its outposts in the Spratlys.
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They staged marches, rallies, art exhibits, and theatrical performances to build public opposition to preparedness measures like the draft, which they feared would militarize the country.
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The confidential plan, reviewed by The Times, would also deepen the countries' cooperation in space, a frontier the Pentagon recently said Beijing was trying to militarize.
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Pence also said China had deployed anti-ship and anti-air missiles on artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, despite promises not to militarize them.
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Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Similarly, the federal government helped militarize local and state police departments in an attempt to better equip them in the fight against drugs.
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Congress' frustration with military space efforts is understandable, given the failure of recent commercial space launches and the resurgence of Russian and Chinese efforts to militarize space.
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Russia continues its push to militarize waters near the Sea of Japan and has been trying to project an increased role in the Pacific, according to Zilberman.
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So we won't militarize our policing standards, but we will do it in a much safer way every time, like we chose to do it this time.
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Instead, they may create more problems by allowing African Union forces to retreat, further militarize American policy, sideline diplomatic engagement and undercut the newly elected Somali president.
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If, beyond Trump, the larger concern is policies that militarize the border and dehumanize migrants, then Democrats have had a significant part in creating the status quo.
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"What's truly disturbing about this act is that it's in direct contradiction to President Xi's statement ... that he would not militarize those man-made outposts," Eastburn said Tuesday.
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"The administration's misguided insistence that a border wall must be built is an affront to the just demands of border communities to revitalize and not militarize our region."
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So, for now, it looks like they're on the backburner, while the Chinese continue to militarize those artificial islands and increase their strategic capabilities far beyond its shores.
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"The order given is to militarize PDVSA in key areas," said a PDVSA employee, asking to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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The Chinese message, in a Defense Ministry statement, suggested that China was further watering down a pledge made by its president, Xi Jinping, to not militarize the islands.
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American officials accused Beijing of breaking a promise the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, made in 2015 when he said China did not intend to militarize the disputed territories.
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Rising Chinese influence in the Pacific will also feed into concerns that China intends to militarize the Pacific, potentially placing in jeopardy U.S. and Australian security interests there.
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They also tend to further militarize Mexico's failed war on drugs and organized crime, which has claimed more than 250,20003 lives and around 40,000 missing persons since 2006.
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Implausible as it may seem, Russia is worried enough about this possibility, in the event of a major war, that it's taking steps to militarize its civilian communications infrastructure.
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However, some critics have also accused the president of trying to "militarize space," a silly idea, since the United States military has been launching and operating satellites for decades.
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Under the idea that the red-tape to militarize them would get figured out later, General Henry "Hap" Arnold established the WASPs unit, a group of 28503,22019 female pilots.
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"We have seen developments and reports that are not consistent with the commitment not to militarize the South China Sea," said Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser.
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" Putin's comments Wednesday reiterated those he made in late November to his security council, in which he said he was "seriously concerned" about NATO's "attempts to militarize outer space.
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Two US defense officials based in Europe told CNN that Russia is particularly sensitive to US military operations in the Black Sea given recent Russian moves to militarize Crimea.
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China sees the port in Djibouti, which also hosts an American port, as a "test case" for how to militarize other ports around the world, according to the Pentagon adviser.
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Its government says that such action does not constitute a militarization of the islands, which Beijing considers to be Chinese territory and therefore it cannot militarize land it already owns.
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In describing the new weapons deployment, a Defense Ministry statement suggested that China was further watering down a pledge made by its president, Xi Jinping, to not militarize the islands.
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"It was very much a strategic decision that the regime made, to militarize the conflict right away," Glenn Robinson, an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, told me in October.
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"The Chinese government said some time ago that they were not going to militarize those reclaimed islands," Lorenzana told reporters, adding that the protest would be made through the foreign ministry.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the Singapore conference, He Lei, of the PLA's Academy of Military Sciences, said China had every right to continue to militarize its South China Sea holdings.
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Despite assurances made by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015 that China would not militarize its South China Sea islands, the Chinese military has slowly expanded its footprint in the region.
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Only three years ago, Mr. Xi stood beside President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden and promised not to militarize artificial islands it has built farther south in the Spratlys archipelago.
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Emphasizing the need to both further militarize and privatize space as a new war-fighting domain, Pence stressed that the new branch of the military is targeted for a 2020 implementation date.
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"Russia must know that the US will not allow them to militarize international waterways in key areas such as the Black Sea, the Sea of Japan or Okhotsk, or elsewhere," Zilberman said.
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"It was very much a strategic decision that the regime made, to militarize the conflict right away," Glenn Robinson, an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, told me in an interview.
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And he ordered deployment of at least 800 Army troops to militarize the United States southern border and to the border, but in April he sent the National Guard with no effect.
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By now, most if not all have heard about President Trump's attacks on the caravan, his threats to militarize the border, and the difficulties of gaining legal access to the United States.
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Roque and foreign ministry officials said Manila would raise China's moves to militarize its manmade islands in the Spratlys during two-way consultations in China set for the second half of the year.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday a recent Chinese missile launch in the disputed South China Sea was "disturbing" and contrary to Chinese pledges that it would not militarize the disputed waterway.
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The denial of passports to those delivered by midwives in border states is the latest erosion of American citizens' rights in the misguided obsession to militarize and seal the United States-Mexico border.
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China's neighbors have acquiesced to Beijing's claims to the airspace above the East China Sea and have stood by as it embarked on a long-term project to militarize the South China Sea.
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He has continued to push for a discriminatory immigration ban, militarize the police, perpetuate the myth of voter fraud, and is working to undermine the goal of promoting racial diversity in higher education.
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Why it matters: The core issue on the table during Mattis' visit is China's expansion into disputed territory in the South China Sea, where it has accelerated efforts to militarize despite the West's objections.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines would not protest China's moves to militarize its man-made islands in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said on Friday, amid Manila's efforts to improve ties with Beijing.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France plans to launch mini surveillance satellites to enhance the protection and defense of French satellites from 2023, its defense minister said on Thursday, signaling an intensification in the race to militarize space.
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Now, the handover of Hambantota to the Chinese has kept alive concerns about possible military use — particularly as China has continued to militarize island holdings around the South China Sea despite earlier pledges not to.
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U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said commercial satellite imagery suggested "very recent" placement of missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel island chain that went against China's pledge not to militarize the South China Sea.
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Since roughly 2014, when Russia seized Crimea and China solidified its push to militarize the South China Sea, Washington has been abuzz with worry about war against one or even both of these nuclear-armed behemoths.
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Trump's solution to that problem has been to use the threat of tariffs to force Mexico to militarize its own border with Guatemala, in the process frustrating the new administration of president Andres Manuel López Obrador.
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He wants to militarize Brazil's borders and has described the Landless Workers Movement, an organization that occupies large, unproductive estates in the countryside to advocate for land reform and denounce rural inequality, as a terrorist organization.
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Meanwhile, new satellite photos showed that China has reinforced aircraft hangars in the Spratly Islands so as to absorb an airstrike, thus contradicting President Xi Jinping's 2015 assurance that his government would not militarize the islets.
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They don't colonize places just for scientific study, they generally militarize their colonizations, so if we want to remain the leader in space we obviously need to at least keep pace with the Russians and Chinese.
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In fact, said Mr. Daly, of the Wilson Center, China has continued to militarize the islands and has bomb-proofed airplane hangars that were built on the reclaimed islands, as well as brought in additional equipment.
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Here's what you need to know: • China appeared to concede that it was, after all, placing antiaircraft guns and other defenses on disputed islands in the South China Sea, despite having pledged not to militarize there.
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Both Cheney and Panetta, who both served as U.S. defense secretary during their careers, worried about China's decision to militarize islands in the South China Sea and urged a stronger U.S. military presence in the region.
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Unauthorized immigration from Mexico, which had been high throughout most of the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations despite steady ongoing efforts to harden and militarize the border, fell sharply during the Great Recession years.
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Over the course of its various games, I had played everything from dukes to galactic viceroys, but my road to victory was always the same: Seize resources, always militarize, and be willing to make strategic sacrifices.
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Since it seems that military spending is Trump's top priority, Noah has an idea that could save the program in a "hard power" Trump budget: Militarize Meals on Wheels to trick the president into funding the program.
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CHINESE LAND BOMBER IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, POTENTIALLY ESCALATING TENSIONS OVER DISPUTED ZONE The Pentagon said the provocative move by China raised tensions in the region years after China's president pledged not to militarize the disputed islands.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will make a diplomatic protest to China, which the southeast Asian nation's defense minister described as having reneged on a promise not to militarize artificial islands in the busy South China Sea waterway.
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The confidential plan, reviewed by The New York Times, would also deepen the cooperation between China and Pakistan in space, a frontier the Pentagon recently said Beijing was trying to militarize after decades of playing catch-up.
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Wei Fenghe, Mr. Mattis reminded the general of Mr. Xi's remarks during a 2015 White House visit when Mr. Xi said he had "no intention to militarize" islands in the South China Sea, according to the officials.
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Trump, who largely campaigned on restoring "law and order," will reopen the gates for police to militarize their departments with heavy-duty arms including armed aircraft, armored vehicles, grenade launchers, bayonets, and high-caliber guns and ammunition.
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She noted that while China had said it did not seek to militarize islands and reefs in the Spratly Islands, it had made no such commitment for the Paracels, where it has stationed military assets for years.
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First, US military leaders must provide much-needed clarity, signaling precisely what countermeasures China can expect should Chinese officials opt to declare an ADIZ in the South China Sea, militarize near the Scarborough Shoal, or otherwise escalate militarily.
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"Anyone who votes for this bill is voting to support and implement Donald Trump's views on immigration, his desire to militarize our southern border, and his fantasy of a massive deportation force," Gutierrez said during House floor debate.
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" That view was echoed by Russian President Vladimir Putin this month, when he told Russia's Security Council that he was "seriously concerned about the NATO infrastructure approaching our borders, as well as the attempts to militarize outer space.
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Admiral Harry Harris, the commander of the US Pacific Command, said the deployment of missiles to the Paracels would not be a surprise but would be a concern, and be contrary to China's pledge not to militarize the region.
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" That view was echoed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in late November, when he told Russia's Security Council that he was "seriously concerned about the NATO infrastructure approaching our borders, as well as the attempts to militarize outer space.
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Last week, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis harshly criticized the Chinese government for continuing to militarize a string of islands in the South China Sea, calling the presence of advanced military equipment and missiles there a flagrant show of military power.
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On his latest album, "One People One World," Kuti rails against military coups ("Dem Militarize Democracy") and insists that "one day the people will rise" ("The Way Our Lives Go") with hooks so catchy it's impossible not to sing along.
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"I'm not going to participate, nor do I think it's appropriate in any shape or fashion to use the National Guard to attempt to militarize the border where we're dealing with asylum seekers whose ... constitutional rights continue to be breached," Gov.
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The United States has long been worried about what it sees as China's strategy to "militarize" space, according to one U.S. official, who added there was reason to be skeptical of Beijing's insistence that the Argentine base was strictly for exploration.
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On his 2015 trip to Washington, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China wouldn't militarize the islands, but a December report from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) said China had installed comprehensive weapons systems on seven reefs that include anti-aircraft guns.
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On his 2015 trip to Washington, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China wouldn't militarize the islands, but a December report from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) said China had installed comprehensive weapons systems on seven reefs that include anti-aircraft guns.
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Instead, China's landing nuclear-capable bombers on artificial islands that it said it wouldn't militarize functions to send a message to its neighbors and to the US: Beijing has, for now, won the battle of the South China Sea, without firing a shot.
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China has embarked on a massive land reclamation program, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses, but Wang said China honored President Xi's commitment not to militarize the South China Sea -- made while he visited the White House in September.
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Trump's suggestion on Tuesday that he would militarize the southern border also came after reports that he had floated having the Pentagon redirect funding to pay for the wall, a move that would require congressional approval he would be unlikely to receive.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump took credit on Thursday for what he said was a decades-low drop in border crossings from Mexico at a time when his administration has touted the need to militarize the border due to a surge in migration.
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Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said at a news briefing in Tokyo that deployment of missiles to the Paracels would not be a surprise but would be a concern and contrary to China's pledge not to militarize the region.
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Harry B. Harris Jr., the head of the United States Pacific Command, said on Wednesday that the missile deployment, if verified, would go against pledges not to militarize the South China Sea that China's president, Xi Jinping, made at the White House in September.
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U.S. officials confirmed on Thursday the "very recent" placement of surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island, the site of the largest Chinese presence on the Paracels, criticizing the move as contrary to China's commitments not to militarize its claims in the South China Sea.
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Then, on Wednesday, the Pentagon pulled an invite to China to take part in a huge international naval exercise after it landed a bomber on a disputed island in the South China Sea and deployed missile launchers, after previously undertaking not to militarize the area.
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This provides a powerful framework for a lot of serious political work to get done: funneling millions of dollars to militarize the border, to arm and train Mexican police, help them build new jails and prisons and provide drug education to Mexican school children.
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"What's truly disturbing about this act is that it's in direct contradiction to President Xi's statement in the Rose Garden in 2015 when he pledged to the U.S., the Asia-Pacific region, and the world, that he would not militarize those man-made outposts, " Eastburn added.
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Chinese state media released a video showing a long-range nuclear-capable bomber landing on an island in the South China Sea for the first time, a move the Pentagon said raises tensions in the region years after China's president pledged not to militarize the disputed area.
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Trump also continued to stress the need for the "total denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," expressed concerns about "China's efforts to build and militarize outposts in the South China Sea" and said the US is closely monitoring the growing threat ISIS-affiliated groups are posing in Asia.
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Add to that Beijing's single-minded determination to militarize the South China Sea and push its defensive perimeter to the approaches of both the Pacific and Indian oceans and you have all the elements for a regional arms race and potentially even the spread of nuclear weapons.
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U.S. and Taiwanese officials confirmed in February the "very recent" placement of surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island, the site of the largest Chinese presence on the Paracels, criticizing the move as contrary to China's commitments not to militarize its claims in the South China Sea.
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Harry B. Harris Jr., the head of the United States Pacific Command, said on Wednesday that the missile deployment, if verified, would go against pledges not to militarize the South China Sea that China's president, Xi Jinping, made in September when meeting with Mr. Obama at the White House.
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Harry B. Harris Jr., the head of the United States Pacific Command, said on Wednesday that the missile deployment, if verified, would go against pledges not to militarize the South China Sea that China's president, Xi Jinping, made in September when meeting with President Obama at the White House.
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"Sending active military forces to our southern border is not only a huge waste of taxpayer money, but an unnecessary course of action that will further terrorize and militarize our border communities," said Shaw Drake of the American Civil Liberties Union's border rights center at El Paso, Texas.
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But they quickly moved on to more contentious issues, with Mr. Obama pressing Mr. Xi on China's construction of military facilities in the South China Sea, actions that a White House official said belied a pledge the Chinese president had made last fall not to militarize those waters.
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As the Director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, I stand firm with border residents and Border DREAMers and we have a clear message for Congress: We want a Dream Act that does not put the families of Border Dreamers in jeopardy and does not further militarize our communities.
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" That view was echoed by Russian President Vladimir Putin last Friday, when he told Russia's Security Council that "the world is facing serious threats and challenges" and that Russia was also "seriously concerned about the NATO infrastructure approaching our borders, as well as the attempts to militarize outer space.
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More money for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will allow this agency to build more private prisons, hire more ICE agents, carry out more terrorizing raids, further militarize southern border communities, and separate more babies from their moms without a plan in place to reunite them. More. More. More.
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"Sending active military forces to our southern border is not only a huge waste of taxpayer money, but an unnecessary course of action that will further terrorize and militarize our border communities," Shaw Drake, policy counsel for the ACLU Border Rights Center in El Paso, Texas, said in a statement.
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That little unpleasantness aside, US-Australian relations continue apace, reinforced by robust military exchanges, sales and exercises; mutual support to increase pressure on North Korea; cooperation against ISIS in Iraq and against the Taliban in Afghanistan; and, of course, a united front against China's moves to militarize the South China Sea.
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The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said its findings, made available first to Reuters on Wednesday, come despite statements by the Chinese leadership that Beijing has no intention to militarize the islands in the strategic trade route, where territory is claimed by several countries.
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" As Imani Henry, an artist as well as the founder and lead organizer for Equality for Flatbush, which started BAN, noted in our conversation, the choice to publish the petition grew out of long-standing local efforts to counter gentrification, specifically to resist those who "occupy and militarize our neighborhoods and push us out.
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Rhetoric often outstrips reality in geopolitics, and a lot of experts say fears of a new arms race in space are overblown, but consider these recent headlines: • The Pentagon told Congress this month it is studying a combatant command for space warfare to counter recent efforts by China and Russia to militarize Earth orbit.
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"And while China's leader stood in the Rose Garden of the White House in 2015 and said that his country had, and I quote, 'no intention to militarize the South China Sea,' today, Beijing has deployed advanced anti-ship and anti-air missiles atop an archipelago of military bases constructed on artificial islands," Pence said.
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Although critics immediately described the effort as a "Star Wars" scheme to militarize the heavens, and the Soviet Union was convinced America was plotting to strike Moscow with "space strike weapons," the American people overwhelmingly supported the missile defense research effort despite both the opposition from disarmament advocates and the militarists in the Kremlin.
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Patriotic Americans mobilizing to protect marginalized communities from verbal or physical or other attack, Americans divesting from the financial industries that rob middle America, Americans refusing to pay taxes that militarize our main streets or support the killing of innocents overseas, and Americans shutting down fossil fuel pipelines before they further threaten health and habitat.
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Last Friday , two days before these photos were taken, Chinese state media for the first time released a video showing a long-range nuclear-capable bomber landing on an island in the South China Sea, a move the Pentagon said raises tensions in the region years after China's president pledged not to militarize the disputed area.
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"Over time, we have watched them seize and militarize islands in the South China Sea, and rapidly modernize their armed forces, while seeking to use emerging technologies to alter the landscape of power and reshape the world in their favor ... and often at the expense of others," US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said earlier this month.
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By taking this message to London, Esper seemed to be suggesting that Europeans do not fully share US concerns, which often center on China's efforts to militarize disputed territory in the South China Sea and its vast trade surplus with the US."I would caution my friends in Europe — this is not a problem in some distant land that does not affect you," he said.
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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan had harsh criticisms on Saturday for China's alleged efforts to take technology from other countries and militarize posts in the South China Sea — mixed in with some warnings about the dangers of North Korea, reports the AP. The big picture: The strong remarks from Shanahan come at a time of tension with China as a result of sanctions imposed by President Trump and an arms deal with Taiwan, per AP. It also highlights that defense leadership is focusing on the great power competition with China and Russia.
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The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made it clear it will not militarize its southern border — even if it had the resources to do so — and it has also rejected a suggestion by the White House that it becomes a "safe third country," which would see migrants apply for asylum in Mexico rather than the U.S. Some Republicans are waiting until the outcome of a meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mexican trade officials on Wednesday before deciding on which course of action to take, but many are increasingly concerned about the amount of power Trump wields.
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Some of the following actions are possible: -- Increase the number of ballistic missiles aimed at the island across the Taiwan Strait, so as to remove any doubt that China can militarily defeat Taiwan, if necessary; -- Cut back on direct mail and air services between the mainland and the island; -- Continue to militarize its new, man-made island at Mischief Reef in the South China Sea, located close to the Philippines, including basing fighter jets; -- Declare an Air Defense Identification Zone in the South China Sea, like the one it established in the East China Sea in late-2013, forcing civilian and military planes to abide by Chinese rules; -- Paying off the remaining 22 small states who have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, to break ties and recognize China; -- Step up targeted hacks of US government websites, including penetrating into and disrupting military and intelligence networks, to send a message; -- Renege on support for new sanctions against North Korea, and increase Chinese economic aid (and possibly covert military aid) to Pyongyang These are just some things China may decide to do in response to Trump's gambit.
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