"This is about further militarizing our streets," Ms. Shah said.
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The United States has accused China of militarizing the disputed waters.
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Russia had also been militarizing "in a systematic way," he said.
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Militarizing American foreign policy while relegating diplomacy will bring no victories.
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China blames Washington for militarizing the region with its freedom of navigation patrols.
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"We oppose countries militarizing artificial islands and enforcing excessive maritime claims," Mattis said.
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"We oppose countries militarizing artificial islands and enforcing excessive maritime claims," Mattis stated.
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China blames Washington for militarizing the region with their freedom of navigation patrols.
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China says the United States is militarizing the region with its frequent patrols.
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Chinese officials have maintained that such action does not constitute militarizing the islands.
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Stalin, in the early days of his regime, was interested in militarizing culture.
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Narrowly tailored legislative language is critical in order to avoid further militarizing the police.
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China claims most of the South China Sea and has been militarizing islands there.
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The U.S. and others accuse Beijing of militarizing the region to bolster its claims.
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Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea after creating artificial islands.
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With this latest development, President Trump is politicizing our military and militarizing our politics.
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China claims most of the waterway and has been aggressively building and militarizing artificial islands.
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China has denied militarizing the islands, but Kerry's comments drew a sharp response from Wang.
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On Wednesday, Beijing said it was the US, not China, which was militarizing the region.
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Russia has been increasingly aggressive in the Arctic, militarizing the region it claims, Breedlove said.
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The U.S. and others accuse Beijing of militarizing the region to bolster its claims. Adm.
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"Bernie is against militarizing space and wants to prioritize domestic spending," according to his campaign.
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Experts fear that militarizing space with such weapons could stoke a costly new arms race.
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It has accused the United States of unnecessarily militarizing the region and threatening to disrupt peace.
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Beijing's defiance of international demands to cease militarizing the South China Sea has also fueled tensions.
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" The classification, he explained, refers to "a politics that proceeds based on financializing, privatizing, and militarizing.
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It has rightly pushed all countries, especially China, to stop militarizing land masses and adding to them.
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China and the US have duly accused each other of "militarizing" the waters of the South China Sea.
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Reports about China militarizing reclaimed islands were not new, presidential spokesman Harry Roque told a regular news briefing.
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In recent years, China has invested heavily in building and militarizing artificial islands in the South China Sea.
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Today, China rejected as "ridiculous" the U.S. assertions that it is militarizing the South China Sea, Reuters reports.
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Western capitals have criticized China for militarizing the South China Sea with the deployment of advanced weaponry there.
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China has been building up and, according to U.S. officials, militarizing artificial islands in the South China Sea.
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The organization's findings come despite a pledge from China's leadership that it has no intention of militarizing the islands.
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Additionally, the survey demonstrates an openness to immigration proposals that move beyond "securing" (and presumably further militarizing) the border.
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By militarizing these newly-claimed outposts, China could bully other East Asian nations into submission by choking off trade.
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By militarizing the border, we created a situation where it was more expensive and more dangerous for people to cross.
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"We have been very vocal about our concerns about them militarizing these artificial islands," Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said.
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School districts have stepped up security measures by militarizing our schools, filling them with metal detectors, police and security officers.
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For example, since 22019, China has been building and militarizing artificial islands and land features in the South China Sea.
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However, a few alternatives exist short of militarizing the conflict, even though they still would involve some degree of militarization.
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China and the United States have traded accusations of militarizing the South China Sea, which is claimed almost entirely by Beijing.
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Chinese state media said defenses had been in place on the island for years, and denied it was militarizing the island.
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Davis also believes it's wrong to send the forces to East Asia in response to Chinese militarizing the South China Sea.
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"In my opinion China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea," Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February 2016.
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The head of U.S. Pacific Command says China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea despite its pledge not to do so.
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China has denied U.S. charges that it is militarizing the sea, which also is claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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China claims almost the entire strategic waterway where $3 trillion worth of sea-borne goods passes every year, building and militarizing artificial islands.
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Nevertheless, Beijing has attempted to reinforce its hold on the area by creating and militarizing artificial islands in the Spratlys and the Paracels.
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To bolster its position, Beijing since 2015 has been constructing and militarizing artificial islands on reefs and shoals in the South China Sea.
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In responding to the report, Yang said the United States is instead militarizing the South China Sea with its patrols of the area.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned China in a pointed speech Tuesday that militarizing territorial claims over disputed small islands could produce unintended results.
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Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea while Beijing, in turn, has criticized increased US naval patrols and exercises in Asia.
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Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea while Beijing, in turn, has criticized increased U.S. naval patrols and exercises in Asia.
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Donald Trump has lashed out again at China, accusing Beijing of manipulating its currency, unfairly taxing U.S. products and militarizing the South China Sea.
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Late on Sunday, Trump then accused Beijing of manipulating its currency, unfairly taxing U.S. products and militarizing the South China Sea — also via Twitter.
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China has repeatedly denied charges it is militarizing the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.
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"We shouldn't be arming up and militarizing ourselves," Sean Hensman, who runs an elephant tour company in the northeastern corner of South Africa, said.
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The United States officially does not take a position on the claims but has accused China of militarizing the waterway in its island building.
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By putting Gen John Kelly in charge, Pres Trump is militarizing the White House & putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist.
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China is not closing itself off and militarizing its economy, and we are not leading the free world with Marshall Plans and free markets.
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A Democratic congressional hopeful from Massachusetts is warning about the dangers of militarizing space, arguing that the moon could become a potential staging ground.
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"They keep saying they are not militarizing, but they could deploy fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles tomorrow if they wanted to," he said.
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China has denied U.S. charges that it is militarizing the South China Sea, which also is claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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Republican lawmakers largely focused their remarks on the need to combat Islamist extremism and to prevent terrorists from reaching the United States or militarizing Americans.
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THE TOPLINE: Defense Secretary Ash Carter is warning China against militarizing the South China Sea where it has territorial disputes with a number of countries.
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty contains no language that specifically prohibits militarizing space, except when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons.
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According to Lori Brown, an architect who literally wrote the book on how to make abortion clinics safer, intensely militarizing them isn't really the answer.
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China claims almost the entire sea as its sovereign territory, and has spent recent years militarizing and building up sandbars and islets across the region.
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The US has long accused Beijing of militarizing islands in the South China Sea via the deployment of military hardware and construction of military facilities.
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Hugging the Vietnamese coast, at one point nearly a week into the voyage we passed near the Paracel Islands, which China has been heavily militarizing.
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Mr. Xi could pledge not to go any further in militarizing disputed islands, said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.
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Many in the region are obviously concerned about what these efforts at constructing islands and likely militarizing them means for the future stability of the region.
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Militarizing the fight against drug trafficking organizations and forcibly destroying drug crops has not defeated the forces of supply and demand in the international drug trade.
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The area is at the center of heightened tensions between the United States and China, with Beijing building and militarizing man-made islands in the contested waters.
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As well on Sunday, Trump has lashed out again at China, accusing Beijing of manipulating its currency, unfairly taxing U.S. products and militarizing the South China Sea.
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In recent years, China has been amping up tensions with the U.S. and its allies by claiming, constructing, and militarizing islands in the nearby South China Sea.
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The United States, which takes a neutral position on the competing claims, has pushed all countries, especially China, to stop militarizing land masses and adding to them.
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Schools, police, and other institutions are increasingly militarizing their response to mass shootings to counter attackers carrying infantry-style, high-capacity weapons who may wear body armor.
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The Chinese do not describe their actions as militarization; they accuse the United States of militarizing the sea with its freedom-of-navigation ship operations and overflights.
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The US has long accused China of militarizing these islands, which are part of the Spratly Islands, most recently in a Pentagon report on China released last week.
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The effectiveness of militarizing efforts to stop narcotics trafficking is also up for debate, international criminal organization researcher and American University professor Anthony W. Fontes, told BuzzFeed News.
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Zukunft warned that Russia was militarizing the Arctic and accused Moscow of "saber-rattling" by conducting unannounced military drills in the Arctic area involving thousands of troops. Adm.
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Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea after creating artificial islands, while Beijing, in turn, has criticized increased U.S. naval patrols and exercises in Asia.
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Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea after creating artificial islands while Beijing, in turn, has criticized increased U.S. naval patrols and exercises in Asia.
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"China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea, and you'd have to believe in flat earth to think otherwise," Admiral Harry Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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"If there is more than one country militarizing, and it's not only the islands, if huge navies are sailing through the area, is that not militarization?" he said.
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But China has responded by using the patrols to argue that it is the United States that is militarizing the South China Sea — and by continuing to build.
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But many industry officials, and government officials with long experience trying to win cooperation from Silicon Valley companies, warned that Mr. Trump risked over-militarizing the American response.
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So far, Trump has publicly criticized Beijing for unfairly manipulating its currency, applying insufficient pressure on rogue nation North Korea, taxing U.S. products, and militarizing the South China Sea.
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In a speech in Sydney, McCain said China was asserting itself globally, best illustrated by militarizing artificial islands in the South China Sea, a claim repeatedly rejected by Beijing.
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"I think it is very clear that the Chinese by filling in these islands are militarizing them and that is in violation of international law," the Arizona senator said.
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Those patrols, and reports that China is deploying advanced missiles, fighters and radar equipment on islands there, have led Washington and Beijing to trade accusations of militarizing the region.
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The two have traded accusations of militarizing the waterway as Beijing undertakes large-scale land reclamation and construction on disputed features while Washington has increased its patrols and exercises.
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This is despite a promise made by President Xi Jinping to then-US President Barack Obama in 2015 that the Chinese government would not be militarizing the artificial islands.
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Militarizing these events increases the potential for harm to our communities and we hope in the future SF Pride will consider community-centered approaches to security at pride events.
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While peaceful use and exploration is permitted, smaller-scale weapons are not explicitly barred, and experts fear that militarizing space with them could stoke a costly new arms race.
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Militarizing the police force These presidents also heavily contributed to the militarization of police, an erosion of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that denies U.S. military involvement in domestic policing.
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However, instead of blaming China for building and militarizing islands in disputed waters, he has said the United States was at fault for not blocking the construction when it started.
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Through various tweets, Trump has complained about Beijing artificially depreciating its currency, unfairly taxing U.S. products, militarizing the South China Sea, and failing to adequately punish rogue state North Korea.
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Fu blamed the United States for militarizing the South China Sea, saying that most of the advanced aircraft and warships passing through the disputed waters belong to the U.S. military.
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The Saturday Profile HONOLULU — He has called China "provocative and expansionist," accusing it of "creating a Great Wall of sand" and "clearly militarizing" the disputed waters of the Western Pacific.
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The concept of arming teachers or school personnel has been controversial as some critics argue that it poses dangers for students of color and has a militarizing effect on schools.
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"China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea, and you'd have to believe in flat earth to think otherwise," Admiral Harry Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
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The United States and China have frequently sparred about who is really militarizing the South China Sea, where China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines all have competing claims.
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Wang held talks last week with his counterpart, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who said China was rapidly militarizing the waterway after building artificial islands and deploying fighters and missiles.
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The president-elect in a series of tweets on late Sunday lashed out at China, accusing Beijing of manipulating its currency, unfairly taxing U.S. products and militarizing the South China Sea.
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In militarizing the South China Sea, Beijing has gone back on past promises and acted directly against international law, the wishes of the US, and the moves of the US Navy.
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Chinese state media said defenses had been in place on Woody Island, part of the Paracel chain in the hotly disputed sea, for years, and denied it was militarizing the island.
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But it has accused China of militarizing the waterway in building up artificial islands and said the strategic passage, through which roughly $5 trillion in trade passes annually, must remain open.
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The United States accuses China of militarizing the South China Sea and trying to intimidate Asian neighbors who might want to exploit trillion of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves.
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"We have been through the same strategy of militarizing public safety, and it has been a tremendous failure," said Catalina Perez-Correa, a professor at CIDE who has studied the issue.
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"We discussed the importance of claimants adhering to steps they've already agreed including respecting international law, not militarizing disputed areas and not occupying uninhabited islands, reefs and shoals," he told reporters later.
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Trump lambasted China during the 2016 presidential campaign, accusing Beijing of stealing U.S. jobs with unfair trade policies, manipulating its currency in its favor and militarizing parts of the South China Sea.
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The United States and its regional allies have expressed concern that China is militarizing the South China Sea with moves to build airfields and other military facilities on the islands it occupies.
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"He stated that they would not be militarizing the islands, we have seen in the last month they have done exactly that, moving weaponry in that was never there before," Mattis said.
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Detaining immigrants on U.S. military bases is just one part of a broader policy of militarizing immigration enforcement, and follows the deployment of 85033,000 National Guard troops to the border this spring.
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"This is the same as militarizing police activities for the foreseeable future, or perhaps forever," said Juan Francisco Torres Landa, a lawyer who is on the board of Mexicans United Against Crime.
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China once brushed aside American accusations of "militarizing" the South China Sea — something the country's leader, Xi Jinping, vowed publicly not to do during an appearance with President Barack Obama in 2015.
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" Gutiérrez said that militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border would not be welcomed by the Mexican government, but added that further clarification by the Trump administration was necessary to determine "where we are.
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China has repeatedly accused the United States of militarizing the South China Sea with its freedom of navigation patrols in the region, and boosting of military alliances with countries like the Philippines.
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Beijing has rejected accusations it&aposs militarizing the area and has been working with the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to reach a code of conduct to avoid frictions.
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ISI analysts believe the satellite images provide further evidence that China is increasingly "militarizing" its islands in the South China Sea, ramping up tensions in the region that might undermine its strategic stability.
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The Democratic Unity coalition has accused Maduro's government of flooding Margarita with extra food and supplies to cover up embarrassing national shortages and militarizing the island with 14,000 security personnel to squash dissent.
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China, for its part, has criticized American interference in other countries' internal affairs and has denounced the U.S. for militarizing the South China Sea and for trying to contain China, impeding its rise.
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"In 1986 when I am 3 years old, Ronald Reagan re-energizes the drug war that was started in 1971 by Richard Nixon by further militarizing the police in our communities," she writes.
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Naureen Shah, a senior advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, told the Times back in February that Operation Palladium "is about further militarizing our streets," and that the effects could be lethal.
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Tensions reached a flashpoint after the Philippines filed an arbitration case against China in The Hague and as China started militarizing artificial islands it built up on reefs in the South China Sea.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it was absurd for India to use the excuse of Chinese road-building to cross over their border, and accused India of militarizing its side of the frontier.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. assertions that China is militarizing the South China Sea are "ridiculous", China said on Thursday, after U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Washington would confront China's actions in the disputed waterways.
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China and the United States have traded accusations of militarizing the South China Sea as Beijing undertakes large-scale land reclamation and construction on disputed features while Washington has increased its patrols and exercises.
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Putting military officers in charge of the entire architecture of national security reinforces the trend toward militarizing policy and risks cementing in place "the military-industrial complex" that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of.
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The risk of militarizing public order, the weakening of institutional restraints on executive power, the criminalization of protest and a fixation on promoting free-market orthodoxies — none of this has good echoes in Latin America.
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Duterte also played down concerns that China was militarizing the South China Sea and appeared unperturbed by its dredging work and building activity on reefs, several of which were within Manila's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
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The ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily said in a commentary that, with the situation generally improving in the South China Sea, it was clear that the United States was the one militarizing the region.
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When Mattis flew to Beijing in June, he got an earful from China's military about the Pentagon's decision to describe China as a "strategic competitor" militarizing the South China Sea in a key Pentagon policy document.
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Beijing has said their military roles will be defensive, but the head of the US Pacific Command said last month China was "clearly militarizing" the South China Sea with the aim of achieving East Asian hegemony.
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At the same time, the latest challenge comes on the heels of steadily degrading relations between the Obama Administration and China, including news that Beijing is rapidly militarizing its newly built islands located near the Philippines.
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In the months after the ACLU attorney came to speak with us, we received word that the Department of Homeland Security had opened a Fusion Center nearby, effectively militarizing local law enforcement's surveillance of my community.
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China, for its part, has criticized American interference in other countries' internal affairs and has denounced the U.S. for militarizing the South China Sea, which it sees as an impediment to its own rise to power.
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Beijing has said their military roles will be defensive, but the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said last month China was "clearly militarizing" the South China Sea with the aim of achieving East Asian hegemony.
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But analysts began wondering whether China's endgame was to muscle its way onto coastal territories that could become prime military assets — much as it did when it started militarizing contested islands in the South China Sea.
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The United States accuses China of militarizing the South China Sea and trying to intimidate Asian neighbors who also have claims to parts of it and might want to exploit its extensive oil and gas reserves.
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China and the United States have traded accusations of militarizing the South China Sea as China undertakes large-scale land reclamation and construction on disputed features while the United States has increased its patrols and exercises.
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The United States, in turn, accuses China of militarizing the strategic waterway, through which more than $3 trillion in cargo passes every year, and sees Vietnam as a crucial ally in drawing regional opposition to Beijing's behavior.
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The comments, which come as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits the United States, follow remarks on Tuesday by Admiral Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, that China was "clearly militarizing" the South China Sea.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - China is not militarizing the South China Sea, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, although he acknowledged that defense equipment on islands in the disputed waterway had been placed there to maintain "freedom of navigation".
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In May, the Philippines announced it was following China's lead and militarizing its own territories in the Spratly chain, sending troops and supplies to Pagasa Island, with future plans to build an airstrip and improve civilian infrastructure.
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China, for its part, has repeatedly accused the United States of militarizing the South China Sea through its freedom of navigation patrols in the region and the expansion of military alliances with countries such as the Philippines.
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China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported on Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with Washington, which has accused Beijing of militarizing the vital waterway.
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China claims disputed islands in the South China Sea as part of its territory and has been militarizing some of those islands, reclaiming land on others and turning sandbars into islands to assert sovereignty over the area.
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China says it owns most of the waterway and has been aggressively building and militarizing artificial islands as well as confronting ships that enter the zone, actions that give urgency to ASEAN's efforts negotiate on the area.
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Investment in suits like this one, which VICE had access to thanks to a source, are just one of the many ways the department appears to be bracing for a contentious convention by militarizing with war-ready equipment.
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That was inevitably followed by a tweet-a-thon and public declarations about militarizing the border, stopping the advancing "caravans" of immigrants coming up through Central America and Mexico, and getting Congress to change our "weak" border laws.
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Asked about Richardson's statement, Lu Kang, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said it was hypocritical for the United States to criticize China for militarizing the region when it carries out its own naval patrols there.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported on Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with Washington, which has accused Beijing of militarizing the vital waterway.
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Congress hasn't appropriated any money for the creation of the "Space Force," and the idea will likely attract a lot of bureaucratic foot-dragging over concerns about militarizing space which has, so far, stayed an area of international cooperation.
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China and the United States have traded accusations of militarizing the South China Sea asChina undertakes large-scale land reclamation to create artificial islands and construction on disputed features while the United States has increased its patrols and exercises.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines may lodge a protest with China against the reported presence of two military aircraft on a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea, the top Philippine diplomat said, amid concern that China is militarizing the waterway.
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The Philippines has been a key U.S. ally in its dispute with China over the South China Sea, in which Washington blames Beijing for militarizing a vital global trade route and jeopardizing freedom of movement at sea and in the air.
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During a question-and-answer session with his audience after his speech, Mattis pushed back politely against a civilian&aposs expression of concern that by creating a U.S. Space Force the Trump administration is opening the door to militarizing space.
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Tillerson also said the United States could not allow China to use its economic power to "buy its way out of other problems, whether it's militarizing islands in the South China Sea or failing to put appropriate pressure on North Korea".
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"Secretary Pompeo reaffirmed our deep concerns about the building and militarizing of outposts in the South China Sea, as those actions increase tensions, complicate and escalate disputes, endanger the free flow of trade, and undermine regional stability," the statement said.
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Manila has been aligned with the United States in its dispute with China over the South China Sea, in which Washington blames Beijing for militarizing a vital global trade route and jeopardizing freedom of movement at sea and in the air.
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Over the past few months, Scarborough Shoal had again been shaping up as a pivotal test of wills for the US and China, with Washington deploying sophisticated military hardware to the Philippines in a quiet attempt to deter Beijing from militarizing the reef.
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Rising tensions As well as further militarizing the islands it controls, Davis said Beijing may go as far as to declare the waters between them as sovereign Chinese territory -- not just the 12-mile line off the islands' coasts as it does now.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.), introduced the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act (S.
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" As thousands of Honduran migrants seeking asylum in the United States trek northward through Mexico, President Trump has pledged to stop them at the border by militarizing it with armed federal troops, under the guise of protecting Americans from "criminals" and an "invasion.
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The United States, which has criticized China for militarizing the waterway, estimates Beijing has added more than 3,200 acres (1,300 hectares) of land on seven features in the South China Sea over the past three years, building runways, ports, aircraft hangars and communications equipment.
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EXCLUSIVE: CHINA SENDS SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES TO CONTESTED ISLAND IN PROVOCATIVE MOVE ISI analysts believe that this provides further evidence that China is increasingly "militarizing" its islands in the South China Sea, ramping up tensions in the region that might undermine its strategic stability.
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Tensions in the region have been on the rise, with Beijing and Washington trading accusations that the other is militarizing the region as China expands its reclamation and construction activities on several reefs while the United States undertakes more freedom of navigation patrols and overflights.
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"There is nothing that we can do about that now, whether or not it is being done for purposes of further militarizing these facilities that they have put up," the foreign secretary, Perfecto Yasay Jr., said, reflecting the weak state of the Philippines military.
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The centerpiece of Xi's policy is the building and militarizing of artificial islands in the South China Sea, with an eye to annexing a 300,000 square mile triangle bounded by China's Hainan Island to the west, the southern tip of Vietnam and Manila in the east.
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Some analysts say China's offers of high-interest infrastructure loans and promises of massive investments have won Duterte's acquiescence, but with much of that yet to materialize and China further militarizing its artificial islands and strengthening its fishing militia, Duterte risks looking like he is being duped.
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"We cannot allow China to use its economic power to buy its way out of other problems, whether it's militarizing islands in the South China Sea or failure to put appropriate pressure on North Korea," Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said last week in Sydney, Australia.
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Thousands of miles away is Mount Korek and the dilapidated remains of Iraq's national observatory — the setting for Steyerl's "ExtraSpaceCraft" (2017), a film exploring the encroaching terrors of militarizing outer space through the fictitious Autonomous Space Agency, which is installed in a nearby gallery at the Armory.
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The DHS chief has more of a role in implementing policy than forming it, so Kelly could effectively marshall the department's vast resources to realize some of Trump's most controversial policies -- from deporting millions and militarizing the border with Mexico to implementing anti-terror measures targeted at Muslims.
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Speaking to reporters during a news conference with the presidents of three Baltic nations, Mr. Trump described existing immigration laws as lax and ineffective, and called for militarizing the border with Mexico to prevent an influx of Central American migrants he said were ready to stream across it.
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Related: China Is Reportedly Training a 'Maritime Militia' to Patrol the Disputed South China Sea China and the United States have traded accusations of militarizing the South China Sea as China undertakes large-scale land reclamations and construction on disputed features while the United States has increased its patrols and exercises.
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is tracking The Base and Spear, militarizing the neo-Nazi movement within the fractious ecosystem of the far-right is something that makes The Base uniquely dangerous, especially in a time when federal authorities are struggling to grapple with far-right terrorism.
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The plan would shutter 2202 agency programs and eliminate 2628,28500 of the agency's 6900,2628 jobs; -Increase spending for the Energy Department office that oversees militarizing nuclear science, but cut spending at DOE overall by $28503 billion, or 22019 percent, and; -Slash the Department of the Interior's spending by $1.4 billion, or 10.9 percent.
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In some cases, they have actively contributed to the problem, using violence to stop violence, as in the cases of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico — a country that, a decade after militarizing the fight against crime, started the new year with the highest number of homicides in its history.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang faced an onslaught of questions at the authority's regular press conference on Monday ,after a few days during which Trump accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and accused Beijing of manipulating its currency, unfairly taxing U.S. products and militarizing the South China Sea.
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One of the concerns I have is that the world has been so riveted on the North Korean drama that meanwhile China has progressed steadily step by step in militarizing the South China Sea and trying to intimidate the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, the other countries in the region as well as the United States.
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It's your Topic A. In normal presidencies, the politics of cultural anxiety, social division or ethnic scaremongering — that is, of proposing the end of birthright citizenship and demonizing elite media and militarizing the U.S. border — is Plan B. It's what you turn to first when you don't have enough to say for yourself otherwise.
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The fantasy of space, of setting foot in new realms, has had a hold on the popular imagination since long before Trump took office, and his talk of militarizing it and going to Mars is a way to play on those fondnesses without getting into the gritty details or what it would take to fund those ventures.
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Read more:There have been 255 mass shootings in the US so far in 2019 — here's the full listThe US is militarizing its schools and day cares because its gun violence rates are comparable to failed countries and war zones5 countries that have taken radical steps to eliminate firearm deaths — and what the US can learn from them
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"The (People's Republic of China) says they're militarizing these features in order to defend Chinese sovereignty, but in doing so they're now violating the sovereignty of every other nation's ability to fly, sail, and operate in accordance with international law -- the right of all nations to trade, to communicate, to send their financial information, to send their communications through cables under the sea," Davidson added.
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His optimistic idea of dominating the world hinges on nostalgia about a past U.S. hegemony over the rest of the world — hegemony that today could only be restored by further militarizing the world order and isolating the U.S. Furthermore, Trump's misplaced and demoralizing dystopian narrative invokes fear, bigotry and xenophobia, deflects his supporters from any rational analysis of his credentials to be the President.
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"They're stealing technology, they won't open up their market, they're militarizing the South China Sea, they're involved in Venezuela where [President Nicolás] Maduro is killing his own citizens -- he just killed a Navy captain -- so I don't believe there will be a deal, but clearly there is no way we are going to allow Huawei to sell into the American market from a national security standpoint," he said in a CNBC interview.
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"They're stealing technology, they won't open up their market, they're militarizing the South China Sea, they're involved in Venezuela where [President Nicolás] Maduro is killing his own citizens — he just killed a Navy captain — so I don't believe there will be a deal, but clearly there is no way we are going to allow Huawei to sell into the American market from a national security standpoint," he said in a CNBC interview.
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Yet, when America pours millions into militarizing our police force, first to combat drug crime then to arm ourselves against terror, we wind up with an unaccountable and poorly trained paramilitary that winds up using their new toys to disastrous effect on civilians—whether it's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles being used to suppress protests in Ferguson or no-knock drug raids that cause massive amounts damage, terror and even death in poor communities around the country.
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Read more:The gun used in the deadly Dayton shooting was advertised by its maker as 'an orchestra of metal and hellfire'People across the US are on edge after shootings in El Paso and Dayton, with loud noises in public areas sparking mass panicThe US is militarizing its schools and day cares because its gun violence rates are comparable to failed countries and war zonesAuthorities are investigating an anti-immigrant manifesto they believe the El Paso shooting suspect may have written
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The world has changed a lot in six years — Russia has signed long-term basing contracts on the Mediterranean and deployed its advanced military technology while continuing to agitate in its near abroad, China is militarizing islands in the South China Sea and installing foreign bases in Africa, the Middle East continues to crumble as wars persist, Iran charged U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf and continues its missile development program, and North Korea tested two ICBMs in the last month.
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"At the same time that this administration has cut food stamps, Medicaid and reproductive health services from everyday Americans, this president wants to add more than a hundred billion dollars to continue endless and unauthorized wars, ban transgender troops, keep Guantanamo Bay open, allow the unchecked contamination of water supplies with polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and establish a Space Force—militarizing a previously shared space by all nations and created an unnecessary sixth branch of the military," Pocan said in a statement.
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