"I think we already have saber rattling between the incoming administration and China and a more intense round of saber rattling would certainly get the market's attention," he said.
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Russia's saber rattling isn't just aimed at its immediate neighborhood.
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He said the current trade war amounts to saber rattling.
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On Tuesday morning, Trump continued his saber rattling on Twitter:
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"Dialogue and saber-rattling can never go together," the commentary stated.
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Russia's warnings, could be simply saber rattling, an attempt to destabilize Ukraine.
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So this threat seemed like such a saber-rattling exercise to me.
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There are two reasons to take all of this saber rattling seriously.
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For now, the two sides remain in a pattern of saber rattling.
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The saber-rattling on Tuesday followed months of discussions with United's board.
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"It is difficult to walk back the saber-rattling rhetoric," he added.
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" He said Moscow violated arms control agreements and carried out "nuclear saber rattling.
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Do these activists have a point, or was this just unnecessary saber-rattling?
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Whether AT&T's board will take notice of Elliott's saber rattling is unclear.
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Vlad the Influencer has accomplished what decades of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
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There has been less saber-rattling over opioid legislation and the cancer initiative.
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"Cargo ships aren't going to disappear because of saber rattling," Mr. Bernstein said.
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They have done nothing to stop the missile tests and the saber rattling.
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"There's more saber rattling here than there is restriction of liberty," he said.
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Missiles stopped being fired back in December over Japan, the saber rattling has stopped.
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The launch is the latest saber rattling on the peninsula that roils with tension.
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And both Cruz and Christie gleefully parroted Trump's empty, saber-rattling approach to ISIS.
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But Na and her friends aren't concerned about the saber rattling: they're South Korean.
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But there's good reason to believe their saber rattling will backfire this time around.
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The saber-rattling has a way of stressing allies almost as much as adversaries.
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Venezuela has largely disappeared from the saber-rattling talk shows of Russian state television.
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Last week's saber-rattling is unlikely to lead to a confrontation neither side wants.
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But the White House's aggressive saber rattling would seem to make that less likely.
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The saber rattling over North Korea raised alarm across Asia, and global markets fell.
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U.S. foreign policy is rubbernecking at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's saber-rattling.
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The rare earths export restriction looks to be an act of saber rattling for now.
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He&aposs doing a little saber-rattling before he ultimately capitulates, goes to the table.
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KAYLA TAUSCHE: Are you worried that the President is saber rattling with Europe now, too?
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" Added Duckworth: "Congress must take the president's saber-rattling seriously and exercise its constitutional responsibility.
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Secretary Kerry joined his saber rattling, promising a military response—albeit an "unbelievably small" one.
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Meanwhile, as with so many other matters, Mr. Trump's saber rattling has unnerved international allies.
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The Master Puppeteer has accomplished what all the years of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
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They wanted the saber rattling to stop; when the truce was announced, the market rallied.
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Others dismissed the increased tensions between the United States and Iran as empty saber-rattling.
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The fighters defending Manbij do not believe that the Turkish posture is mere saber-rattling.
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Critics, however, were scathing, suggesting that Russia was saber rattling from a position of weakness.
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But with tensions between the U.S. and Maduro running high, the saber rattling is getting louder.
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Political instability, economic crises that last decades, nuclear saber rattling... the future is all bleak entropy!
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Erdogan has not backed down in the face of military saber-rattling, like most administrations have.
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Saber-rattling from the rogue nation has dominated Trump's 17-day working vacation in New Jersey.
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Saber-rattling from the pariah state has dominated Trump's 17-day working vacation in New Jersey.
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For decades, South Korea's economy and financial markets have shrugged off North Korea's periodic saber-rattling.
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After seven days of saber rattling and fresh deployments, the immediate march to war had ended.
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The president began saber rattling about tariffs during his 2016 "Make America Great Again" election campaign.
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The standoff with North Korea is still just a standoff with bunch of saber rattling—for now.
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The country's aforementioned ASAT test in 2008 was a rather unnecessary folderol of saber-rattling in itself.
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Amid the saber-rattling around trade, poll after poll has found the business community sounding alarm bells.
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Below we have a run-down of all the saber rattling that occurred while you were sleeping.
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"Baltops was not about saber-rattling," Foggo said in an interview from his headquarters in Naples, Italy.
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His scion's saber-rattling has unnerved much of the world, including North Korea's increasingly impatient patron, China.
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"While there is some saber rattling at the federal level, more states keep passing laws," Dayton said.
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N. moves as another case of populist saber-rattling that will eventually defer to Beltway conventional wisdom.
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As for saber rattling, North Korea appears to be – like always – retreating from its most bellicose positions.
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How much of this is saber-rattling and how much is active resistance is hard to determine.
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Trump is theater to Obama's theory, saber rattling to sobriety, America-first to America-in-the-world.
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Response: Global leaders have been largely cautious, sometimes confused — but only implicitly critical of the saber rattling.
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More saber rattling would weaken the broad regional coalition that supports a return of democracy to Venezuela.
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Beijing held its tongue, even as its neighbor engaged in saber rattling, nuclear testing and bombastic threats.
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It's also saber-rattling in Eastern Europe when it conducts large-scale military exercises near NATO territory.
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China is North Korea's most important economic and diplomatic backer, despite its anger at Pyongyang's saber rattling.
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King also expressed concern on "New Day" for how Pompeo and Bolton's saber-rattling could influence the President.
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By the start of 2018, he seemed ready to strategically forget most of his Chinese trade saber rattling.
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Photo: GettyThe loud saber rattling and increasing tension in the Persian Gulf is being felt acutely in cyberspace.
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North Korea threats Saber-rattling from North Koreas has dominated Trump's 17-day working vacation in New Jersey.
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Despite the saber rattling, there have been no firm military moves that could cause an escalation of tensions.
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It is an arduous process requiring global cooperation, diplomatic skill and attentiveness, not constant saber-rattling and braggadocio.
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Bojangles' and Shake Shack also engaged in some light saber-rattling, as did some lesser-known chicken forces.
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Some critics of Mr. Trump praised him on Thursday for focusing on diplomatic pressure rather than saber rattling.
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And public taunting, saber-rattling and domestic politics are all contributing to an atmosphere of volatility and brinkmanship.
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"We believe continued saber-rattling ... could take gold prices higher still," said Nitesh Shah, director at ETF Securities.
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And public taunting, saber-rattling and domestic politics are all contributing to an atmosphere of volatility and brinkmanship.
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Lots of folks are making noise about it, while at the same time saber-rattling around this issue.
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Or does this kind of saber rattling only serve to increase the tension and make war more likely?
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Representatives from the airline accused the union of saber rattling in order to renegotiate existing arrangements with the pilots.
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A: He's playing a dangerous game, and a lot of lives are threatened by that type of saber-rattling.
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In fact, investors may be wise to, as one strategist put it, "discount" all of the hawkish saber-rattling.
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Trump's saber-rattling on Canadian trading practices has sparked concerns about a broader trade conflict between the two countries.
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In the face of nuclear saber-rattling, Schumer could only muster highly conditional ("if") and personal ("I think") advice.
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The incident came amid Saudi saber rattling against regional rival Iran, which supports the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.
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And rereading it today, more than 60 years later, in the midst of global saber-rattling, I still am.
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The saber-rattling by the GOP senators is intended to scare off would-be nominees such as Nevada Gov.
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Trump has scrambled the politics of trade, and his saber-rattling has made many in his own party uncomfortable.
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Of course, this assumes that Trump's saber-rattling and tariffs are the real source of Apple's China sales woes.
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Op-Ed Contributor President Trump has been saber-rattling against "sanctuary" jurisdictions since the early days of his campaign.
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Then, earlier this month, Merkel made it clear she wanted no part of Trump's saber rattling towards North Korea.
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Y.U. professor of global affairs, offers an interesting take concerning the substance behind Vladimir V. Putin's interventionism and saber-rattling.
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If the Trump administration continues to engage in saber-rattling, expect China to continue to come back just as hard.
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Even some of the staunchest U.S. allies were begrudgingly forced to side with Maduro in condemning Trump&aposs saber rattling.
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Uber is generally prepared to lobby for its cause and engage in a little saber rattling from time to time.
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When it comes to North Korea, Trump and his cabinet are a hair below "saber-rattling" on the diplomacy scale.
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Republicans want a "peace and prosperity" message for the midterms, but tariffs and saber-rattling (see Iran tweet), complicate that.
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There is no immediate threat, but this saber-rattling will not have a calming effect — and that's probably the point.
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Now, given all the saber-rattling and missile testing, that was a no-no, even for the limit-testing Pence.
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"The saber-rattling from Erdogan really spooked the market," said John Kilduff, founding partner at energy hedge fund Again Capital.
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It was a reminder to all of our common humanity and set the tone for dialogue instead of saber-rattling.
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Ms. Sweedler views the Russian investment in Fort Ross as a harmless cultural interaction, an important counterpoint to saber-rattling.
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Trump's saber-rattling resulted in Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceling a meeting scheduled between the two leaders for next Tuesday.
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"They've been focused on ISIS, but North Korea's latest saber-rattling is now forcing them to look at Asia," Pho said.
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The attack could provide more fodder for Iran hawks within the US administration, whose recent Iran saber-rattling has frustrated Trump.
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"No question it's saber rattling," said Ryan Castilloux, managing director of Adamas Intelligence, a consultancy that tracks the rare earths market.
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READ: 'Largest ever' military drill underway Inevitably, the training season leads to saber-rattling on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone.
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Given all the saber rattling so far, it would not be surprising to hear Trump issue more warnings to North Korea.
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"We just can't expect a quiet Monday when there's so much saber-rattling on the part of our president," Cramer said.
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The administration's saber rattling in Iran will likely force a foreign policy conversation, if one heavily weighted toward the Persian Gulf.
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the center-left foreign minister, raised eyebrows by suggesting that NATO was "saber-rattling" with maneuvers in Poland.
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Of course, senior Iranian officials and media outlets resorted to saber-rattling to cloak their concerns over such unexpected global reactions.
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What all this means, as I said, is that the Democratic nominee won't have to engage in saber-rattling over trade.
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Maybe policymakers are aware of these challenges and are just saber-rattling in an attempt to effect some change in Venezuela.
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The move against Syria appears to show a new take on U.S. involvement, as does recent saber rattling against North Korea.
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In South Korea, whose people have lived through saber-rattling involving the North for decades, there were few signs of panic.
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The dinner on Wednesday was stocked with American business officials, many of whom have expressed concerns about saber rattling from Beijing.
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Days of saber rattling between Washington and Tehran have heightened tensions in the region amid concerns about a potential U.S.-Iran conflict.
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Of all the saber rattling to date, the UK white paper contains perhaps the most sweeping set of potential regulations to date.
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"We are optimistic this saber rattling ahead of the planned China/USA trade meeting this week will be reversed," the email said.
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Seoul (CNN)South Koreans go to the polls Tuesday amid heightening tensions with North Korea and saber-rattling from Pyongyang and Washington.
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There's the saber-rattling by nuclear-armed North Korea, a Chinese ally that the Trump administration believes should be brought to heel.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders have called for calm as both Pyongyang and Washington upped their saber-rattling rhetoric.
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Hamburg, Germany (CNN)President Donald Trump has long said China is the lynchpin to solving North Korea's saber rattling with missile tests.
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Since the tariff saber rattling began, prices for the corn and soybeans that I produce have dropped by 15 to 20 percent.
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The administration's saber-rattling is best read as a dramatic bluff, an attempt to convince allies (and, perhaps, markets) that he's serious.
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Critics counter the standoff instead proves Tehran is not quieting its saber-rattling despite Obama's landmark nuclear agreement with it last year.
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The recent saber rattling against Iran raises the question of whether the president can take the country to war on his own.
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" Trump has reacted to North Korea's saber-rattling and missile tests with combative rhetoric and pledges to respond with "fire and fury.
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This kind of rhetorical saber-rattling occurs regularly — just this May, Iran's defense minister threatened to leave 'only Mecca and Medina' untouched.
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North Carolina Democrats, for instance, held a press conference Monday to denounce Trump's saber rattling as a threat to the state's farmers.
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Nothing seems to shake them much anymore — not hostility with Russia, not President Trump's tweets, not saber-rattling on the Korean Peninsula.
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When Trump tells The Financial Times that he can "totally" solve North Korea without China's help, everyone shrugs at his saber-rattling.
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His saber-rattling against Iran has intensified a sectarian proxy war between the Gulf States and Iran, raging from Yemen to Syria.
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THE TICKER Investors are mostly shrugging off the threat of war with Iran, even after intensifying saber-rattling between Washington and Tehran.
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The escalating saber rattling between the U.S. and North Korea has raised the prospects of an economic confrontation between America and China.
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Obviously, a stupid and gratuitous diplomatic spat with the British is not going to lead to an exchange of nuclear saber rattling.
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The Coast Guard commandant has accused Moscow of "saber-rattling" by conducting unannounced military drills involving thousands of troops in the Arctic arena.
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The attack could provide more fodder for Iran hawks within the US administration, whose recent Iran saber-rattling has frustrated President Donald Trump.
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Trump's saber rattling with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has shaken global markets somewhat, but it hasn't caused an all-out panic.
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So there may be a lot of saber rattling, but I don't think that we will really end up in a trade war.
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Josh Cohen, a former USAID project officer, explains why Donald Trump will have to address Russia's nuclear saber rattling immediately after his inauguration.
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The increased saber-rattling comes after the clashes at the border over humanitarian aid — which ended up being something of a strategic failure.
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The Iran nuclear deal—one of the only true victories in American foreign policy in recent memory—came through diplomacy, not saber-rattling.
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"I do believe that there's going to be some saber rattling, some threats, but I think that they are hollow," Mr. Cornyn said.
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Trump's saber-rattling with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has shaken global markets somewhat, but it hasn't caused an all-out panic.
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READ: Trump's saber-rattling is North Korea's propaganda dream come true Not a missile launch site or research facility, but a housing estate.
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The Trump administration's been saber-rattling against "sanctuary cities" during its whole six months in office (not to mention on the campaign trail).
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Op-Ed Contributor President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, have sharply escalated their nuclear saber rattling in recent days.
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The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has emerged as a force, North Korea is saber-rattling and Russia has intervened in Ukraine.
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A lot can still happen over the next three weeks — a North Korean nuclear test, for instance, or more saber-rattling in Washington.
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It's possible that the saber-rattling from the White House will work, and that Iran will dial back its support for international terrorism.
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The Republican saber-rattling has raised speculation that potential nominees could be scared off by what's expected to be a bruising confirmation fight.
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And tensions along the 160-mile border have rarely been higher, as Pyongyang's saber-rattling has intensified amid a flurry of missile tests.
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Despite the saber rattling over tariffs, however, the U.S. and China still remain the top markets for attracting investment outside a CEO's home market.
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RELATED: Nuclear option saber-rattling begins over Gorsuch vote Later in the day, he appeared to give his clearest answer yet on abortion rights.
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She called the launch "unacceptable" and shot a thinly-veiled barb to China, indirectly calling the Chinese "enablers" of North Korea's saber rattling. 4.
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The Pentagon has been closely monitoring what Defense Secretary Ash Carter has called Russian "nuclear saber-rattling" and Moscow's work to modernize its arsenal.
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The normal for Turkey is that any saber-rattling by the Turkish military would either make the democratically elected government back down or resign.
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However, the net result of this approach may not be a trade war but rather saber-rattling to little effect, according to one analysis.
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After the military parade on April 15, Kim Jong Un appeared in public for a saber-rattling live-fire test just 10 days later.
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Despite this most recent example of Iranian saber rattling, its notable Iran has not harassed any U.S. warships or aircraft in nearly a year.
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"(The nuclear arsenal) is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before," he added, in a return to the previous day's saber-rattling.
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"There's a point at which saber-rattling is not effective, and you have to be very careful on how you approach that," Kasich said.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters says Donald Trump is misdirected with his saber rattling directed at Kim Jong-un ... because she thinks we MUST avoid war.
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Experts have been predicting an imminent nuclear test, North Korea's sixth, for weeks now, as the country ramps up missile testing and saber rattling.
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Guam has long been a focal point of North Korea's anger against the US and is often a target of North Korean saber-rattling.
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But Shastry said that for all the saber-rattling, the violence unleashed by the BJP's move was unlikely to escalate into an actual war.
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How it could play abroad: The move is sure to raise tensions between the U.S. and China who have been saber-rattling on trade.
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Despite the President's repeated saber-rattling suggestion that these troops will be used to encounter or apprehend migrants, their role will be quite limited.
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Steinmeier also said NATO exercises in eastern Europe could worsen tensions with Russia, warning against what he called "saber-rattling and shrill war cries".
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The danger of Donald Trump and his administration is not just his saber rattling or even the systematic erosion of President Barack Obama's policies.
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Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and saber-rattling in the Baltic Sea have raised security concerns in the militarily neutral European Union country.
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"A lot of of this is saber rattling and bluster from the Russians who are clearly unnerved actually by recent U.S. actions," said Gardiner.
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Despite the nuclear tests, missile launches and other saber-rattling threats, North Korea has signaled recently that it would consider participating in the Games.
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His policy toward North Korea changes by the day and might quickly return to saber-rattling should Pyongyang prove stubborn before or during talks.
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He's been a leading voice for saber-rattling conservatives for two decades and is an eminence grise for the neoconservative wing of the GOP.
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"It is a little hard to say how much of this is actually real and how much of this is saber rattling," Atkinson said.
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Azerbaijan's saber-rattling, its brotherhood with Turkish demagoguery and its disregard for Israeli energy security shovel further instability into a precariously-teetering Middle East.
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They come after a year of threats, saber-rattling and North Korean weapons testing but how do these talks differ from what's come before?
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Despite noted saber rattling from some senior officials, it remains unclear whether any measures by the networks or congress can effectively limit the problem.
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" Putin's spokespersons have also engaged in nuclear saber-rattling, warning that "impudent behavior" — such as NATO troops in the Baltic — might have "nuclear consequences.
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A battalion provides a prototype for a European army, nuclear saber-rattling from Russia, and an actor accused of staging an assault on himself.
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Nor is saber rattling by Mr. Putin, who devoted much of his speech last year to what he claimed were highly advanced new weapons.
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Rather, Trump and Kim may simply be looking to keep communication lines open and avoid the heated saber-rattling that defined their relationship in 2017.
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"Any sudden escalation in saber-rattling coupled with misleading statements could spawn a needless flare-up in tension and public anxiety," the Korea Herald said.
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Calls for calm Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders have called for calm as both Pyongyang and Washington upped their saber-rattling rhetoric.
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Given Tehran's military saber-rattling, including a second missile launch this week and continued support for international terrorism, the time for action may come soon.
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"At a time when we have this kind of saber-rattling and really blustering foreign policy, it does make people a little nervous," LoPresti said.
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If I were in Congress, I'd be standing against that and standing up for diplomacy and sound decision making instead of fearmongering and saber rattling.
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While Moscow's saber rattling has clearly failed to intimidate the West, Russia's military and its nuclear arsenal remain the only aces in Mr. Putin's hand.
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Several of the most successful investors in the world predicted the two economic superpowers will eventually reach a deal after some short-term saber rattling.
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In 2018 there's a lot of saber-rattling between China and the U.S. Does that factor into sort of how you think that might go?
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The Trump administration, for its part, believed unrealistically that its "maximum pressure" campaign and saber rattling would cause Iran to fold and accept America's terms.
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Cornyn also slapped down Trump's saber rattling over a possible government shutdown fight in September, when funding for fiscal year 2017 is due to expire.
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"With this kind of saber-rattling you create potential for a hair-trigger moment," he said, citing Mr. Maduro's dispatch of troops to the border.
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We look nervously at the saber-rattling of President Trump and Kim Jong Un, and hope that diplomats contain the conflict on the Korean peninsula.
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The president also engaged in some saber rattling over Mexico tariffs before backing off, saying the two sides had reached an agreement over stemming illegal immigration.
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It is only by comparison to the heights of hysterical saber-rattling among the Washington establishment that Obama can be cast as inactive in foreign policy.
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NATO held its largest military drills in the Arctic since the end of the Cold War during the same year — a sign of mutual saber-rattling.
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Western officials in the region said Mr. Erdogan's saber-rattling could well be a tactic to stir up nationalist support ahead of municipal elections in March.
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The sanctions have done nothing to stop Mr. Putin's saber-rattling, as illustrated by long-scheduled Russian military exercises along the eastern edge of NATO territory.
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"[A] short pause in this Administration's saber-rattling isn't enough to calm the uncertainty they're causing in our health care system," Murray said in a statement.
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The liberal media anguishes over the prospective collapse of ObamaCare, threatened trade wars, saber-rattling from Pyongyang and a gazillion other looming disasters, real and imagined.
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At a time when Trump is saber-rattling against Iran and North Korea, the media should be vigorously challenging official claims before U.S. bombs begin falling.
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Russia's aggression in Europe — its invasion of Ukraine, its military flights up the noses of NATO states, its nuclear saber rattling — has faded from the news.
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"This more prudent approach makes much more sense—in terms of achieving US space goals of stability, assured access and protection of the environment—than saber rattling."
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Why is Secretary of State Rex Tillerson making saber rattling comments about how military action would be "on the table" if North Korea further provokes the U.S.?
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Trump's suggestion that the "one China" principle – that Taiwan is a part of China – was up for negotiation has already prompted saber-rattling on the Chinese mainland.
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Pyongyang's saber-rattling is "typical North Korean negotiating behavior," said Bruce Klingner, a former chief of the CIA's Korea branch who is now at the Heritage Foundation.
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Following North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4, G-20 ministers expected the U.S. to introduce a resolution condemning the nation's saber rattling.
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Political rage fueled Mr. Sayoc, who railed against liberals and immigrants and echoed the saber-rattling rhetoric of Mr. Trump's rallies, according to people who knew him.
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The tariffs disprove the notion that Congress and broader business interests would prevent the Trump administration from turning its saber-rattling into real sanctions, Mr. Prasad said.
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It remained unclear on Friday whether Russia's talk of a crackdown posed an imminent threat to the operations of American news outlets there, or was saber rattling.
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The dollar's decline is also an expression of the nervousness investors feel about geopolitics, primarily nuclear saber-rattling by North Korea and bellicose rhetoric from Mr. Trump.
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Trump, of course, has to sign off on all this saber-rattling, and he does, because he loves to wield weapons and fancy himself a tough leader.
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Saber rattling that stretches from North Korea to the U.S. and other hot spots could unnerve a market that just made it through a pretty volatile August.
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On Tuesday, he may need to reassure the public and his allies in Congress, who have grumbled over Iran's saber-rattling, the Syrian civil war and ISIS.
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There is a sobering case to be made that Kim isn't just saber rattling for concessions from the international community, and it grows with each nuclear test.
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What is clear is that the administration's saber-rattling and use of aid as a weapon are a dangerous and potentially counterproductive strategy for helping the Venezuelans.
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At the time, Mr. Trump gave a saber-rattling address condemning the brutality of the North Korean government, and saluting Mr. Warmbier's parents, who were his guests.
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The West has used everything from signals intelligence operations, espionage, fighter jet saber-rattling, and diplomatic standoffs to stem the rise of Russian influence around the world.
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Relations between the US and Russia are the worst they have been in three decades and the current tension is replete with nuclear saber-rattling from both sides.
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Putin's saber rattling over nukes — not to mention incursions in Ukraine and an aggressive approach to the Syrian civil war — should be putting Trump on alert, Woolsey said.
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The irony for Sessions is that the STATES Act probably wouldn't exist — certainly not with bipartisan backing — were it not for Sessions' own policy positions and saber rattling.
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But it's a safe bet that Chinese officials are already thinking through their options in case that is where the latest round of economic saber rattling ultimately leads.
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"Russia's nuclear saber rattling is incredibly irresponsible, it is dangerous, it is destabilizing in terms of its strategic effect," says Michael Carpenter, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of Defense.
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"What we shouldn't do now is to inflame the situation by loud saber-rattling and shrill war cries," Steinmeier told Bild newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
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" "With this in mind, it is quite possible that Kim's claim could be untrue, which would come as no surprise to those familiar with the regime's saber rattling.
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In the face of recent saber-rattling from North Korea, Trump had said the USS Carl Vinson carrier group was being deployed to waters off the Korean Peninsula.
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More recently, many U.S. experts were caught off-guard by how nimbly Kim shifted from his saber-rattling drive to build a nuclear missile arsenal to diplomatic outreach.
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The global bomb-dropping and saber-rattling could continue to be a destabilizing market force, so it's always a good idea to watch the headlines but not overreact.
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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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It may convince Putin that nuclear saber-rattling can get him off the hook for past crimes or that Trump cares more about deal-making than European security.
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North Korea On North Korea, Tillerson said his diplomatic efforts will continue as long as they possibly can despite the saber-rattling on both sides of the Pacific.
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As the group shrugs off the president's saber-rattling over tariffs, Trump continues to push his administration toward the path of an all-out trade confrontation with China.
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Both countries have recalled ambassadors and consuls in an escalating tit-for-tat, and ministers have joined the fray with saber rattling in interviews with the news media.
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The S&P 500 is up 5 percent for the year about 1.9 percent over the last month, despite the Trump saber-rattling on trade and other issues.
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" "We're hearing a lot of talk, a lot of saber rattling saying this is an extremely conservative pick that is the second most conservative judge on the bench.
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That judgment led critics to contend that the federal government was seeking a new generation of nuclear pits for reasons not of national security but of saber-rattling.
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And yet, despite bipartisan unity and President Trump's frequent saber-rattling, one element of our North Korea policy remains puzzling: Why aren't our sanctions against the country stronger?
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When American and Chinese leaders learn about each other's countries — their cultures, histories, politics and people — they build bonds of understanding that encourage problem-solving, not saber-rattling.
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Steinmeier raised concerns among U.S. and NATO officials earlier this year when he said Western military exercises in eastern Europe could be seen as "saber-rattling" against Russia.
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Russian saber rattling and prodding from Washington are spurring more of NATO's European allies to step up their defense spending — and the makers of military hardware stand to benefit.
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But the thing about Trump's tough nuclear talk is that even if he's bluffing, this kind of saber rattling could drive more nations to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.
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Islamic State, Syria, North Korea's nuclear saber rattling, Chinese expansion in the South China Sea, and Russian meddling in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, to name a few.
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Amid increased saber-rattling in Syria and around the Baltic nations, Clinton spoke to the times: "We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare," she said.
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The prospect of women losing authority over their own bodies, African Americans again asked to go to the back of the line, voter suppression gleefully promoted, jingoistic saber rattling.
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Saber rattling has been near constant in recent weeks after terrorists -- from Pakistan, according to India -- stormed an Indian military base in India-controlled Kashmir and killed 18 soldiers.
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Guam back in the crosshairs Guam has long been a focal point of North Korea's anger against the US and is often a target of North Korean saber-rattling.
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Experts say that's probably not the case, but the saber-rattling is worrisome in an era where President Obama is trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons altogether.
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"We think the market is telling us that the signal is earnings that have been supercharged by the tax cut, while the noise is protectionist saber-rattling," he added.
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What's more, Iran's saber rattling and regional expansionism are causing concern among America's allies in the region, from Israel and Egypt to Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the meeting was "a welcome improvement" to "name-calling and saber-rattling," but argued that details coming out of the summit were lacking.
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Through all the rhetoric and saber-rattling however, it can be difficult to answer what should be a simple question: Has the North Korean threat increased, yes or no?
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They have to do some tests anyway, so running them now nets the North Koreans a nice little saber-rattling bonus to go with their improving grasp of technology.
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Under this theory, the president could have responded to North Korea's latest saber-rattling by announcing that he was going to China, since chances are he'll get there someday.
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"I think there is a lot of saber-rattling, but in practical terms it is not on," he said when asked whether Britain could cancel or reduce Boeing defense orders.
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"There has always been a level of respect for the state judicial system and its operations, even if there has been saber-rattling that they can do this," he said.
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Morrison was brought onto the NSC in June by then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, a fellow saber-rattling foreign policy hard-line hawk, to focus on nuclear arms agreements.
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Yet the United States is behaving as if it faced an existential threat with few means to respond other than the unconstitutional exclusion of outsiders, saber-rattling, and military action.
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The saber-rattling, front-page news throughout the continent has fueled the dictatorship's narrative that U.S. aggression is behind all of Venezuela's ills and that opposition leaders are American puppets.
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The saber-rattling renewed fears about the prospect of war and raised questions about whether such a bombastic approach was the best way to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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As Weiss explains, Beijing could be willing to take such aggressive steps because of fears of how its public would react if it failed to respond to Trump's saber-rattling.
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No. I personally think the world is way too big and integrated for that to be stopped, and I think the saber-rattling is ridiculous and bad for both economies.
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"And saber rattling does not alarm the Japanese government as much as it does the South Korean government," which has called for more diplomatic and economic engagement with North Korea.
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China called for calm on all sides as North Korea intensified its saber-rattling ahead of its founder's day celebrations, and a United States Navy strike group approached the region.
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"I think the issue that is affecting the market is the general risk sentiment of saber-rattling between Washington and Pyongyang," said Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.
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Not to be outdone, the South Koreans returned fire on Tuesday with their own saber-rattling threats and camera-shaking video of test missile launches and warplanes conducting target practice.
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Saber rattling between the United States and North Korea sent stock markets lower on Wednesday as investors shifted their money into assets considered to be havens in times of trouble.
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South Korean markets have retraced losses fairly quickly in the past following North Korean saber-rattling, but the benchmark index has taken slightly longer to recover after the latest provocations.
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"Congress has not authorized war with Iran, and we need to make sure that saber rattling and miscalculation don't spark a catastrophic conflict," Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said.
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Let's face it: it's been a traumatic and troubling summer, with the news focused on white supremacist uprisings, North Korean saber-rattling, the latest net neutrality war, and a catastrophic hurricane.
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I think the president&aposs whole attitude of toughness with respect to North Korea -- and people yelled at him or said this -- now you&aposre too strong, you&aposre saber rattling.
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These contacts, after all, stand in stark contrast to the scary talk of nuclear exchanges of only a few months ago, and meeting face-to-face seems better than saber rattling.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's official Xinhua news agency said on Friday that North Korea's firing of an intermediate range ballistic missile was, despite its failure, the country's latest example of saber-rattling.
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Adding to the uncertainty, Saudi Arabia and Iran continued their saber-rattling in the Persian Gulf, threatening a spread of hostilities in Iraq, Bahrain and other countries with deep sectarian divides.
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He talked up the need to make peace with North Korea, of all countries, and then pivoted to saber-rattling denunciations of the human rights abuses of the regime in Venezuela.
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Washington (CNN)US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday his diplomatic efforts will continue as long as they possibly can despite the saber-rattling on both sides of the Pacific.
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Trump shocked the world last month by accepting an invitation to sit down face-to-face with the North Korean leader after a year of saber-rattling from Washington and Pyongyang.
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The president also stressed the U.S. continues to have concerns over Iran's destabilizing activities in the region, including its ballistic missile tests, saber-rattling with Saudi Arabia and threats toward Israel.
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Ditto of course for Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton—and indeed, for several of the 2020 female Democratic presidential candidates, who are strikingly prone to saber-rattling in matters of foreign policy.
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It looks like Verizon, which announced plans to buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion in July, is doing some saber-rattling about that gigantic hack that Yahoo disclosed a few weeks back.
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China's saber rattling over Taiwan, the continued poaching of the island's few remaining diplomatic allies, and Beijing's hardline stance in Hong Kong helped carry Tsai to her landslide victory this month.
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Punishing sanctions by the United States and European allies that have isolated Russia further have done nothing to stop Mr. Putin's saber-rattling, as illustrated by the long-scheduled Zapad exercise.
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Those facts start with Trump being reduced to a 38 percent approval rating just nine months into his presidency, despite solid economic trends and no foreign crises worse than saber rattling.
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Reflecting a strand in German politics that calls for accommodating rather than confronting Putin, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned "loud saber-rattling" and "symbolic tank parades" on NATO's eastern border.
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Peter Thiel pivots on this quickly by noting that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be the one who is more "dangerous" given all her saber-rattling with Russia and such.
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The Hermit Kingdom's recent saber-rattling prompted the United States to dispatch the Vinson carrier group as a show of force, and President Trump has not ruled out a pre-emptive strike.
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Tensions on the peninsula have ratcheted up in recent weeks amid saber-rattling from the US and North Korea and analysts' warnings that North Korea is preparing for a sixth nuclear test.
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The Navy has three carrier strike groups currently in the Pacific where North Korea's nuclear saber rattling has the U.S. and its Asian allies keeping a close watch on the pariah state.
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And thanks to the Trump administration's saber rattling about North Korea, the phrase has been used over three times as often during the Trump administration as it was during the Obama administration.
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Now, the president has returned to saber-rattling, amid unsurprising reports that Iran is enriching uranium above the limits set by the Obama-era nuclear accord, which Trump withdrew from in May.
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Gallant compared the saber-rattling over the Turner properties to President Donald Trump's earlier threat to pull the broadcasting license of CNBC-parent NBC over what he deemed as unfair news coverage.
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As Trump appears to soften his line toward North Korea, the White House is arguing that the talks between the North and South are a direct result of the President's saber rattling.
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Ongoing efforts at the U.N. hinted that at least some in this administration, chaotic though it has been, understand the importance of diplomacy as well as impromptu saber-rattling via toxic tweets.
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"President Obama's push for a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear challenge long predated Prime Minister Netanyahu's saber-rattling," says Ned Price, who served as a spokesman for Obama's National Security Council.
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The Pentagon chief gave vague details about how the administration will deal with North Korea's recent saber-rattling and nuclear tests, saying only that it is enlisting the help of other nations.
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Experts on the volatile region said the similarities are apparent between the saber rattling now and then, but a more equipped North Korea is changing the approach to diplomacy with the country.
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China's announcement of a hypersonic vehicle comes at a time when trade tensions are high with the United States, leading some commentators to describe this latest test as a form of saber-rattling.
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It said "direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation" of the rules.
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"I think at this point the common interests between the US and China outweigh (North Korea saber-rattling)," said Alexander Neill, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.
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Trump's suggestion that the "one China" principle – that Taiwan is a part of China – was up for negotiation has already prompted saber-rattling from Chinese state media and some in the military establishment.
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Under President Trump, the U.S. has careened in recent month from nuclear saber-rattling about "fire and fury" to suddenly jumping at the prospect of a summit meeting with the "honorable" Mr. Kim.
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Wall Street has mostly shrugged off recent saber-rattling between the United States and North Korea, as well as a lack of progress by President Donald Trump in delivering promised corporate tax cuts.
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In Syria the Russian-backed Basher al-Assad regime is credibly charged with using sarin gas against its own civilians, while the mercurial North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues his saber rattling.
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Kelly Ripa may be saber-rattling -- boycotting the show and even threatening to leave -- but sources connected with the production don't believe she's going anywhere, because of her paycheck and her spending habits.
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" Raab was duly accused of "saber-rattling" and of making "puerile" comments by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell while Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called on the U.K to dial down the "nationalist rhetoric.
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And what's more troubling, despite the saber-rattling by Trump and the prolonged trade war, America's trade deficit in goods actually increased, totaling $2900 billion in 220006, an 2202 percent increase from 2628.
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It was a peaceful opening to a concert centered around celebrations of the heroic, including — in Strauss's tone poem — a saber-rattling depiction of battle that the Concertgebouw players delivered with ferocious energy.
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An hour-by-hour account of tweets, golf, nuclear saber-rattling, and an angry press conference on race An hour-by-hour account of tweets, golf, nuclear saber-rattling, and an angry press conference on race Donald Trump's secretive 17-day vacation won't end until next Tuesday, but in less than two weeks out of the White House, he's managed to roil the nation on race and destroy bushels of political capital with a series of bizarre and indefensible statements.
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Two Chinese dailies, the saber-rattling Global Times and the English-language China Daily, took aggressive and at times condescending approaches to Tillerson's stance on the issue during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
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The comments added to days of saber-rattling between Tehran and Washington, which has tightened sanctions and built up its military presence in the region alleging threats from Iran to its troops and interests.
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The visits are intended to shore up ties with two of the United States's longstanding allies amid concerns about the threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and saber-rattling by Iran.
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After years of saber rattling, Azerbaijan's four-day assault on the NKR earlier this month is its most egregious attack since it signed a cease-fire agreement with Armenia and the NKR in 1994.
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Senate Republicans, who have been repeatedly frustrated by Trump's saber-rattling on trade but have been unwilling to confront him on the issue, are talking about a new effort to rein in Trump's powers.
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Be it saber-rattling in the South China Sea, proselytizing on American college campuses, theft of corporate secrets or censorship of the web, China has alienated one constituency after another in the United States.
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And predictably, North Korea took the opportunity to amplify its own saber-rattling, announcing shortly before the meeting in Beijing that it had successfully run a ground test of a powerful new missile engine.
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During his saber-rattling phase with North Korea, Mr. Trump considered ordering the evacuation of military families from South Korea, which could have been interpreted by Pyongyang as a prelude to an American attack.
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But some Americans seemed less alarmed by Kim Jong-un's saber-rattling than surprised to learn that Guam, the small Pacific territory 20023,000 miles west of Hawaii, is a part of the United States.
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In recent weeks, the Trump administration and Asian allies to the U.S. have ramped up military pressure on North Korea, which has remained defiant with missile tests, military parades and other saber-rattling gestures.
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Stern's lack of effort to prevent the move — and his years of saber-rattling in an effort to get Seattle to pay for a new Sonics arena — left him persona non grata in Seattle.
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The defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, wrote a saber-rattling Twitter post directed at Israel on Friday after a false report — which the minister apparently believed — that Israel had threatened Pakistan with nuclear weapons.
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Washington (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday expressed concern about the Trump administration's Iran saber-rattling, drawing a comparison to the rising tensions during the Bush administration that led to the Iraq War.
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For the new commander in chief, the launch was his first brush with the hermit regime's saber-rattling, which along with heated rhetoric from the young leader Kim Jong-un has spooked the country's neighbors.
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Until this week, the equity market had managed to shake off negative news, including previous saber-rattling over North Korea and failures in Washington to pass high-profile bills, such as repealing and replacing Obamacare.
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But Trump, despite saber rattling, has yet to explain to Americans any new approaches on how he will thwart Pyongyang's bid to put a nuclear warhead onto a weapon that could reach the US mainland.
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In fact, given his historical stance and taste for saber-rattling bluster, it would not be that shocking to me were he to consider such strikes against Canada if NAFTA talks went off the rails.
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Now that we see that the conciliatory approach cultivated by the Clinton and Obama administrations and the relative indifference of the George W. Bush administration did not work, some American saber rattling is long overdue.
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A week ago, the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seemed to believe that North Korea was ready to call it quits after months of saber-rattling, culminating with its threat to nuke Guam.
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But Mr. Erdogan's creeping authoritarianism, his security detail's attack in Washington on peaceful protesters, his saber-rattling on Syria and Turkey's arrests of American citizens and State Department employees have left the relationship severely strained.
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The problem is that Trump's saber-rattling backfires, helping Maduro by playing into a narrative of Yankee imperialism, and his politicization of humanitarian aid makes it less likely that starving people will actually be fed.
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"Presently, direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation of the Twitter Rules," Twitter clarified.
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Unlike his predecessors in the presidential Blue House, and his two main rivals in the race, Moon favors engagement with North Korea rather than the saber-rattling that has been escalating under the Trump administration.
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But it's also worth noting that at this point, President Trump has done a lot of Twitter saber rattling about the press having too much freedom and hasn't spent a lot of energy acting on it.
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While Russia's current nuclear saber rattling – particularly its open threats to use nuclear weapons in a conflict – is dangerous and irresponsible, the breakdown in nuclear cooperation between the United States and Russia did not occur overnight.
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Combined with his saber-rattling on the Canadian dairy market and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it has sparked concerns about a broader trade conflict that could have significant effects on the U.S. economy.
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It's brought Amazon under scrutiny that it probably would not have received otherwise—Donald Trump's saber-rattling about the company's relationship with the Postal Service is clearly tied to the Post's critical coverage of the president.
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In 2014, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and saber-rattling by Putin, the European Union again feared a gas shutoff and undertook "stress tests" to evaluate their ability to survive for a time without gas shipments.
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And resorting to inferential excess, Kilcullen contends that President Obama's failure to punish Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria encouraged Vladimir Putin's land grab in Ukraine and saber-rattling over the Baltic States.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's defense ministry said on Wednesday that Beijing was using "cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling" to threaten Taiwan, as China's military began live-fire drills in the sensitive Taiwan Strait amid growing tension.
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But ever since Russia capped off the 2014 Winter Olympics with the Great Crimean Heist, its invasion of Ukraine, and various episodes of nuclear saber-rattling, increasing tension between Russia and NATO has riled everyone up.
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That was when, you'll recall, the American populace elected a saber-rattling former actor who preached "small government" as the answer to everything, and threw a peanut farmer who actually gave a shit out of office.
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But he's mostly handed foreign policy over to his military advisers (a pretty deep-state group, as such things go), which means that so far it resembles Obama's except with more cruise missiles and saber-rattling.
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Despite Pyongyang's nuclear saber-rattling and the failure of diplomacy for over two decades, we have restricted ourselves to two options: economic sanctions and military means, such as deterrence, missile defense and threats of preemptive strikes.
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"There was a lot of saber-rattling going on in North Korea, and there was a lot of concern about the new administration, and people were frankly and evidently nervous," Alex Gansa, "Homeland's" showrunner, tells ITK.
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The video isn't a dramatic departure from North Korea's usual saber-rattling rhetoric, which usually attempts to convince the rest of the world that Pyongyang wouldn't hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if it is provoked.
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Trump's saber-rattling -- he has accused Pyongyang of "looking for trouble" -- is familiar to consumers of North Korean state media, who have been warned for decades by their leaders of imminent US attack and attempted regime change.
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Despite all the saber-rattling from government officials and the press in China and India, Bhutan, which actually has a claim to the territory, has been pretty quiet beyond a mild rebuke issued by its foreign ministry.
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The world's attention has understandably focused on Mr. Trump's saber-rattling threats against Mr. Kim — most dramatically, his promise to rain "fire and fury" on North Korea if Mr. Kim fired ballistic missiles at United States territory.
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India's government wants to gaslight the international community into normalizing India's de facto annexation of the Muslim-majority state, and its ethno-nationalist saber-rattling in a region with major US interests and international stability at stake.
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The fact that Tillerson decided to talk about it with reporters signaled that despite all the saber rattling in the US-North Korea standoff, the Trump administration is looking for a peaceful path to managing the crisis.
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And last week, I saw more than the usual number of commemorations of the Japanese bombings, during the August anniversary — perhaps our recent saber-rattling about nuclear warfare with North Korea has awakened us again to that history.
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While North Korea's neighbors are used to the saber rattling -- Pyongyang once threatened to turn the South Korean capital Seoul into a "sea of fire" -- they are less familiar with similarly heated comments emanating from the US side.
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Blatant saber-rattling from Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea, has resulted in the Chinese deployment of 150,000 troops to the country's border, and the dispatch of American carrier USS Carl Vinson to North Korean waters.
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But since then, Trump has repeatedly responded to North Korean missile tests with saber-rattling, apparently convinced that the threat of a U.S. strike—which is clearly a bluff—would stop North Korea's missile program in its tracks.
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Combined with other legacy issues — mainly health-care costs and policies around hiring temporary workers at a lower wage than UAW members — the Lordstown decision set the stage for a lot of serious saber-rattling by the union.
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"The Chinese communists have been using cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling on every aspect of the Republic of China in the hope of affecting our morale or creating social unease," said defense ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi.
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And predictably, North Korea did not pass up the opportunity to amplify its own saber rattling, announcing shortly before the meeting in Beijing that it had successfully run a Read the rest of this article on VICE NEWS.
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North Korea's most recent outburst of saber-rattling, via a missile launch earlier this month, put corralling the repressive communist regime at or near the top of the agenda for Trump's meeting with Xi last week in Florida.
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Yacoubian told me that Erdoğan may be engaged in a little saber-rattling here, but his rhetoric has been consistent and isn't unserious — it's not as if he hasn't followed through on his threats before, especially in Syria.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fund investors reduced their exposure to stocks and bought bonds during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, as saber-rattling between the United States and North Korea appeared to shake investor sentiment.
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It's ironic, then, that despite Donald Trump's saber rattling, the First Amendment and an imperfect patchwork of state shield laws have conferred greater protection to journalists in the US than a so-called progressive leader in Canada has.
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The saber-rattling between the neighboring Koreas makes for an ominous backdrop to the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, a tension that seeing the countries' athletes march under the same flag and skate on the same ice can't quite erase.
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Defections are hardly unprecedented for the country -- one of the world's poorest and most isolated, in large part because of its leaders' defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons and saber-rattling directed at South Korea, the United States and others.
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" China's Foreign Ministry said it had no specific information on that flight, but added, "we are firmly opposed to saber-rattling that harms China's sovereignty and security by certain countries on the pretext of freedom of navigation and overflight.
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The summit itself, and a potential upcoming meeting between Kim and Trump, would have been unthinkable last year, when saber-rattling between Washington and Pyongyang combined with North Korea's increased nuclear and ballistic weapons testing to raise tensions dramatically.
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" Moscow looks poised to keep the saber-rattling going during Tillerson's scheduled visit to Moscow on Tuesday, with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warning over the weekend that the two superpowers were "on the verge of a military clash.
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Fitch does not mention the U.S. specifically being subject to a reduced rating, but listed several of its trading partners that could take a hit should negative conditions emerge from Trump's saber-rattling on international trade agreements and immigration flows.
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" In Tuesday's blog post, Twitter said that "Presently, direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation of the Twitter Rules.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Top U.S. Navy officials say increased U.S. and NATO exercises in eastern Europe do not amount to "saber-rattling," but are necessary steps to train with allies and deter the most aggressive Russian maritime expansion in 30 years.
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On Sunday a former British minister, Michael Howard, suggested Britain would be ready to go to war with Spain to defend the outpost — a display of saber-rattling that evoked memories of the 1982 war with Argentina over the Falklands.
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National security adviser John Bolton's saber-rattling promise on Sunday that "any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force" was the latest sign of mounting White House frustration with Iran.
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The move didn't exactly come without warning, as the two sides had been saber rattling for weeks, but it still caught markets off guard and exemplified how at the mercy both investors and corporate America are to Trump's Twitter whimsy.
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NEW YORK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - U.S. fund investors peeled back their exposure to stocks and bought bonds during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, as saber-rattling between the United States and North Korea appeared to shake investor sentiment.
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Letter To the Editor: "North Korea's Brazen Nuclear Moves" (Editorial, May 3) details how the country's surging nuclear-weapons program defies U.S. calls for denuclearization — amid concerns that Kim Jong-un may accelerate saber rattling to shore up his powerbase. Ironic.
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But she said that based on his behavior, he seems to be reacting adversely to the stress of an ongoing criminal probe of his presidential campaign's contacts with Russia, saber-rattling by North Korea, and his decreasing popularity among the public.
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"We've spent much of the last couple months expecting this to be saber-rattling and something that would be resolved far before actual action takes place," said Angie Setzer, vice president of grain at Citizens LLC, a grain elevator in Michigan.
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The rhetoric of the Singapore summit notwithstanding, the globe has witnessed in the dangerous escalatory rhetoric and nuclear saber rattling between North Korea and the United States a new awareness that fear and misperception increase the likelihood of accidental nuclear war.
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After a year of saber rattling and weapons testing, analysts say the decision by Washington and Seoul to postpone annual military exercises and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's perceived offer of an olive branch provided fertile ground for diplomacy.
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" Twitter's new statement only reinforces that notion, saying, "Presently, direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation of the Twitter Rules.
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The West Germans managed to circumvent the recriminations and saber-rattling between Moscow and Washington and reach practical agreements with the eastern bloc states, for example, on West Berlin's status, international borders, relations between the two Germanies and even arms control.
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Rejecting critics at home and abroad who condemned his earlier warning as reckless saber-rattling, Mr. Trump said North Korea and its volatile leader, Kim Jong-un, have pushed the United States and the rest of the world for too long.
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But it also is bound to renew deep disagreements over a host of Trump policies that Shanahan has accommodated, including the administration's ban on transgender troops, use of military funds to build a border wall and saber rattling with Iran.
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"Presently, direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation of the Twitter Rules," the company added in an update last October.
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And the distinct chance we could now be headed for another Middle Eastern conflict -- or at the very least a period of saber-rattling and disruption to global trade -- could prop up Beijing's ability to play all sides, perhaps indefinitely.
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The politics of foreign policy are always complicated, but even more so in the age of Trump, who after days of saber-rattling suddenly shifted his focus to de-escalation with Iran during a speech Wednesday from the White House.
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The likelihood of war has increased This year had seen a reprieve from the nuclear saber rattling of 2017, but with the summit off, experts predict North Korea will resume its missile testing, raising the possibility of a U.S. military response.
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But by stopping aid to the long-suffering people of Venezuela due to the country's economic collapse, it may actually backfire by turning the public against the US. "The Trump administration's saber-rattling plays right into the hands of this authoritarian regime," Sen.
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Iran said on Friday it could "easily" hit U.S. warships in the Gulf, the latest in days of saber-rattling between Washington and Tehran, while its top diplomat worked to counter U.S. sanctions and salvage a nuclear deal denounced by President Donald Trump.
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In the face of recent saber-rattling from North Korea, US President Donald Trump had said the Vinson carrier group was being deployed to waters off the Korean Peninsula The location of the Vinson has dominated headlines after Trump's remark on April 12.
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Contrary to popular belief, such diplomatic maneuvers do not prevent serious talks from taking place, on matters as vital as the saber-rattling of the North Korean regime and American concerns over China's island-building territorial grabs in the South China Sea.
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The first was in 1953, shortly after the US and Soviet Union started testing hydrogen bombs, and the second was last year, when President Donald Trump was wrapping up his first year of reckless climate denialism and fire-and-fury saber rattling.
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It's lovely to imagine a close alliance in which our nations could collaborate on defeating ISIS, but Russia's aggression in Ukraine, its saber-rattling in the Baltics and its coddling of Syria's brutal Assad regime amount to a massive destabilization of the world.
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Delegates at an OPEC/non-OPEC monitoring committee meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia said oil prices were higher partially because of global political tensions, mentioning sanctions on Venezuela, threats to the Iran nuclear agreement, strikes on Syria and saber-rattling over North Korea.
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MORE but a president who has chosen to slash taxes on wealthy Americans, invest in industries of the past, disrespect women in private life and public policy, reject the science of global warming, and adopt a saber-rattling approach to national security.
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Public saber-rattling between Trump and Kim has made the likelihood of any negotiation virtually impossible, which is why a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Kim, as crazy as it sounds, may be the only way to get to yes.
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Those tensions included the launch of rockets from Yemen into neighboring Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, and saber-rattling from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom's long-simmering feud with regional rival Iran ahead of his U.S. visit.
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The UAW had in fact been doing this since the beginning of the year, saber-rattling and girding for a strike; by some measure, even if GM hadn't given away the farm with its offer, the membership still would have had to walk.
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North Korea's saber rattling and over-the-top rhetoric is not new, but Kim Jong-un's fanatical focus on developing nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of ranging the United States and our allies should redouble our efforts to focus on missile defense.
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Early Thursday morning, he joined the saber rattling of his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, when he threatened Iran over a ballistic missile test that challenged a United Nations Security Council resolution that had called upon Tehran not to undertake such launches.
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"The saber-rattling and the hurricane and all the other things that have been going on over the last few weeks seemed to subside a little bit," said Joe O'Leary, senior foreign exchange trader at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California.
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"The firing of a mid-range ballistic missile on Friday by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), though failed, marks the latest in a string of saber-rattling that, if unchecked, will lead the country to nowhere," it said in an English language commentary.
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North Korea invited a select group of foreign journalists, but excluded eight South Koreans, to the scheduled nuclear test site closing "ceremony" this week as the regime continues to lash out and accuse the South and United States of "saber-rattling" for continuing military drills.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Friday it could "easily" hit U.S. warships in the Gulf, the latest in days of saber rattling between Washington and Tehran, while its top diplomat worked to counter U.S. sanctions and salvage a nuclear deal denounced by President Donald Trump.
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So far it's just rhetoric, like that from Iran's President and its supreme leader, both of whom threaten that if they cannot get their oil out of the Strait of Hormuz then no one will, and saber rattling in the shape of naval exercises.
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By comparing physical actions, press releases, and general craziness in the spring exercise season over a 10-year period, they were able to get at one crucial question: Does all the screaming and saber-rattling just end up making the situation in Korea worse?
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That's been compounded by U.S. President Donald Trump's use of bombastic language similar to the North's own saber-rattling style: Pyongyang "will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before," Trump said earlier this month.
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"The firing of a mid-range ballistic missile on Friday by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), though failed, marks the latest in a string of saber-rattling that, if unchecked, will lead the country to nowhere," the news agency said in an English language commentary.
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Still, we did everything we could to nail down their stances given (the now former) Attorney General Jeff Sessions's saber-rattling about a possible crackdown with the rescission of the so-called "Cole Memo" that discouraged federal prosecution in legal-weed states under the Obama administration.
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He is grappling with Trump's strident rhetoric as well as disagreement among the president's top aides over whether saber-rattling will force Kim to capitulate and what the threshold for any military actions should be, according to several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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With this latest round of allegations he will come under even greater strains, accused by his critics on the left of saber rattling over Iran and pressured by the right to accept its agenda of expanding settlements and annexing the West Bank in return for its support.
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North Korea's threats comes amid blunt warnings from President Donald Trump, who has used language similar to the North's own frequent saber-rattling: Pyongyang "will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before," Trump said this week.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-un's test of what analysts said could be a new short-range guided or cruise missile shows the North Korean leader reverting to saber rattling as he seeks to end sanctions that are derailing his hopes of rejuvenating the North's economy.
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Tech stands to gain perhaps more than any other sector if President Donald Trump's saber-rattling trade strategy works out, and the administration-backed tax cuts have put more money in shareholders' pockets through a history-making jump in share buybacks that have been skewed toward the sector.
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Some of the most high profile incidents of Iran's saber rattling since the mullahs inked the controversial pact with the Obama administration in July of last year include Tehran's decision to conduct at least two ballistic missile tests and the detention of ten American sailors at gun point.
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But the hearing painted a disturbing portrait of fatigued crews and commanders on a shrinking overseas fleet saddled with constant deployments — including confronting an expansionist Chinese military and keeping vigil on a nuclear saber-rattling North Korea — with little time left to train or to repair aging ships.
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As the United States and North Korea trade saber-rattling threats and China continues to send ships into disputed waters near Japan, "the reality is Japan just doesn't have a choice," said Tobias Harris, a Japan analyst at Teneo Intelligence, a political risk consultancy based in New York.
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The welcome break in tensions that have been building on the peninsula amid North Korean weapons testing and saber-rattling rhetoric from Washington, has thrown a spotlight onto the ministry, normally little noticed outside Korea, giving its mission new purpose and importance within President Moon Jae-in's foreign policy.
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North Korea's threats comes amid blunt warnings from President Donald Trump, who has used language similar to the North's own frequent saber-rattling: Pyongyang "will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before," Trump said earlier this month.
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"The firing of a mid-range ballistic missile on Friday by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), though failed, marks the latest in a string of saber-rattling that, if unchecked, will lead the country to nowhere," China's official Xinhua news agency said in an English language commentary.
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It required a tricky balance: standing firm against North Korea's saber rattling and China's territorial ambitions in the South China Sea — stances that come naturally to a defense secretary — while also reassuring allies made nervous by Mr. Trump's campaign talk about pulling back from American security commitments in Asia.
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Gary C. Evans, chief executive of shale producer Energy Hunter Resources, called the tariffs "a lot of saber rattling" that will not hurt exports of U.S. crude oil or liquefied natural gas, the latter a fuel that China has not included on its list of products facing a tariff.
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The hotspots in the Mideast have troubled Democratic and Republican administrations alike, with not only the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a concern today, but the rise of terrorism in the region, the heating up of the civil war in Syria, and Iran's saber-rattling among the major issues.
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In an email on Monday she shared with Reuters, Samsonite told her it would again raise prices to match the tariffs - if Trump makes good on his threat.. "We are optimistic this saber rattling ahead of the planned China/USA trade meeting this week will be reversed," the email said.
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Launched with great fanfare at a five-star Beijing hotel in 533, the free trade zones close to the Chinese border city of Dandong were meant to be part of China's efforts to coax its erstwhile diplomatic ally into cautious, export-oriented economic reforms, rather than saber rattling and nuclear tests.
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The needle remains similarly unmoved, in the big picture, at Riverrun, where after some saber rattling, Jaime took over the castle and Blackfish, whom we never even knew we were supposed to care about until a few weeks ago (and thus didn't, really), died in a presumably clumsy swordfight offscreen.
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"If you don't have any oil exposure here, ... maybe you should be thinking about buying the stock of Hess, because not only does it have a spur, it's got someone saber rattling for the CEO to go and the company to put itself up for sale, " the "Mad Money " host said.
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"The firing of a mid-range ballistic missile on Friday by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, though failed, marks the latest in a string of saber-rattling that, if unchecked, will lead the country to nowhere," China's official Xinhua news agency said in an English language commentary, according to Reuters.
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Finland, which shares an 830-mile border with Russia, is not a member of NATO but, unnerved by Russian military actions in Ukraine and its saber-rattling in the Baltic Sea, has in recent years expanded cooperation with the United States-led military alliance and has debated whether to join.
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TORONTO — Some saber rattling from the Yankees, a firm nudge by Commissioner Rob Manfred and ESPN's wariness over a potential public-relations mess all conspired Tuesday to create an unsurprising reversal: the network giving up the Yankees' game against the Toronto Blue Jays for a Sunday Night Baseball broadcast next month.
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It is an echo of the Cold War's bad old days, and as this installment of Retro Report shows, some people worry that it is an omen of what may lie ahead, as the major powers resort to the sort of nuclear saber-rattling not seen for a long while.
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It is also likely to put further strain on the relationship between Iran and the United States, where an uneasy truce left over from the Obama administration has been threatened by the Trump administration and Congress's saber rattling, as well as the president's recent sword dance in the Arabian desert.
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Significant step despite inaction on nuclear weapons The talks, while still preliminary, could mark a significant step in the US-North Korea negotiations and yet another departure from the saber-rattling that defined the early Trump-Kim relationship -- all without key steps on the part of North Korea to denuclearize.
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Long before any specific plans were formed, Mr. Harper's critics warned that the Conservative government would inappropriately reshape the museum to promote the prime minister's view of history, which rested heavily on the role of monarchy and the military, and turn the museum into a jingoist house of saber rattling.
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When they step out of their vehicles now they're stepping out with their rifles and they're not willing to engage in just friendly dialogue… "Whether this is just saber rattling to intimidate or whether they actually mean it, we don't know… They do not want to let go of this," he said.
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"We gotta stand by Taiwan, we see what's happening in China the way they're saber-rattling out there in the East, it's about time we do what Reagan did, we stand up to these bullies, we say we're not gonna let you do this, and we're gonna stand with our allies," Moore said.
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A member of the European Union with an 830-mile-long border with Russia, Finland has stayed outside the United States-led military alliance but, unnerved by Russian military actions in Ukraine and its saber-rattling in the Baltic Sea, has expanded cooperation with NATO and debated whether to apply for full membership.
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"Lost in the attorney general's saber-rattling was the fact that the US federal court system already is buckling under the weight of immigration prosecutions, which previous administrations also have turned to as a show of force against unlawful immigration," said Heidi Altman, director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center.
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While this four-title-fight card gave the organization a nice opportunity for saber-rattling in the wake of the UFC's headline-dominating November debut in NYC, it's difficult to say how much the addition of a fourth title fight to the bill really helped in terms of ticket sales and viewership numbers.
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Those comments have come amid heightened saber rattling from the North Korean regime, whose leader Kim Jong-un last month ordered his country to be ready for imminent nuclear warfare in the wake of the United Nations Security Council issuing harsh new sanctions on the country intended to end its nuclear program.
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In August he did some off-the-cuff saber-rattling—the famous "fire and fury" line—that scared seemingly everyone except Kim Jong-un, and in September, he gave Kim a cute nickname that he got either from an Elton John song or from a line Nicolas Cage said in The Rock.
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"The pundits can fret about all they want about the trade-war saber-rattling, but the action in the stock market ... tells me that it's not cut-and-dry how much these issues do hurt business, especially not when you consider the red-hot state of our economy," the "Mad Money" host concluded.
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That&aposs a dramatic reversal that came after the president, remember after weeks of being more gentle and encouraging to the man he once dubbed Little Rocket Man, went back to the tough talk by saying he would not stand for the saber-rattling that we&aposve seen by North Korean officials in recent days.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that his office stood ready to impose new sanctions if Brunson wasn't released, while President Donald Trump took to Twitter to engage in saber-rattling over Brunson's fate: "We will pay nothing for the release of an innocent man, but we are cutting back on Turkey!" he tweeted.
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The cryptocurrency's meteoric rise is reminiscent of its rocketing growth in the latter half of 2017, when prices reached more than $18,400 on the back of buoyant capital markets, rampant speculation and a turbulent political climate in Northern Asia spurred by saber rattling between President Donald Trump and North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un.
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But the President, addressing reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for the Naval Academy, made clear the door to diplomacy remains open -- cooling fears that the scuttled summit could mean a return to the saber-rattling that has defined the US-North Korean relationship for much of Trump's presidency.
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While Russian political interference, military saber rattling, and the wars in Ukraine and Syria are the immediate causes of the crisis today, a reluctance dating to the 1990s to view the Russian objectives as legitimate or give Moscow a stake in the security architecture in the era after the Cold War provide the backdrop.
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In 2017, after a ratcheting up of North Korean saber-rattling, the president warned of "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if Pyongyang continued to threaten the U.S. Following rounds of diplomacy, Trump became the first U.S. president to meet with his North Korean counterpart at a summit in Singapore in 2018.
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Her brief speech on the attacks, delivered Monday in a New York airplane hangar on the way to another campaign event, was a rebuke of Donald Trump's blunt approach to the issue—"knock the hell out of" ISIS, as he said in an appearance on Fox News Monday morning—and an appeal to strategic thinking over saber-rattling.
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And as noted above, saber-rattling or an actual attack on North Korea will put one of our closest allies in Asia at risk without changing the fact that Pyongyang is a nuclear-armed power that could wreak havoc in the region, even if it does not have nuclear weapons that can reach targets in the United States.
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North Korea has been steadily increasing its saber rattling as more and more time passes without progress on nuclear talks with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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The most recent rally has been driven by more solid economic numbers — 25 percent corporate earnings growth, a 4.2 percent GDP gain in the second quarter and an 18-year high in consumer confidence among them — plus relief that Trump's saber rattling over trade has the real chance to yield new trade agreements with Mexico and Canada.
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House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiObjections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated Latest pro-democracy rally draws tens of thousands in Hong Kong Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' MORE (D-Calif.) is calling for "immediate" debate over President Trump's use of force following reported "saber-rattling" on North Korea.
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There are four items in particular that raised the likelihood of a more adverse outcome: The tariffs President Donald Trump recently announced on imported steel and aluminum; National Economic Council head Gary Cohn's resignation over the levies; Trump's tweet that "trade wars are good and easy to win "; and White House saber rattling that more tariffs could be coming, this time on China.
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The extensive list of immigration "priorities" the Trump administration sent to Congress on Sunday night — which amounts to a comprehensive immigration-hardliner agenda — is either a sword through the heart of any attempt to pass a bill to legalize the 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or a laughably empty act of saber-rattling bravado.
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" Everard notes the "wicked sense of humor" possessed by North Koreans, and tells me that, as a diplomat, he could make jokes with representatives of the North Korean government that would be met with "stony faces" by their equivalents in Washington, DC. Nevertheless, the former ambassador says that "we should be worried; this is saber rattling, but there is a very real risk that it will escalate.
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As the saber-rattling between Iran and the United States escalates, the constitutional question on many Americans' minds is: How far can President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE traverse into war without buy-in from Congress?
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Furthermore, President Trump's saber-rattling on trade issues has already benefited the economy: Toyota's recent decision to build a $1.6 billion plant in Alabama and Fiat Chrysler's announced plan to transfer Ram truck production from Mexico to its Warren Truck plant (creating 85033,500 jobs) show that American corporate leaders now recognize that voters care about U.S. jobs and will act accordingly in the voting booth.
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But since Trump himself is inexperienced, underinformed and deeply malleable, it's also quite possible that if he appoints conventional full-spectrum hawks to key posts, full-spectrum hawkishness is what we'll get — that by year two of a Trump administration we'll be arming the Ukrainians and Syrian rebels, saber-rattling anew with the Russians, and adding another intervention or two to the Obama administration's (six and counting) frozen conflicts.
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Something seemed to click for people across the political spectrum this week, even among those least inclined to see the world through a gendered lens: When Mr. Trump tweeted, "I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" the nuclear saber-rattling at Kim Jong-un of North Korea sounded a lot like, well, penis-measuring. Sad.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson opened the door Monday to negotiating a rollback of sanctions if Kim stops his missile testing — but North Korea responded with an aggressive statement that threatened military action against the U.S. Despite the saber rattling and mixed messages about what it will take to bring North Korea to the table, Klingner said that, privately, the administration has a more "coherent strategy" than it might seem.
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For more than 20 years, the one element that's been sorely missing from the diplomatic efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions has been the lack of any real military threat from the U.S. Now that we see that the conciliatory approach cultivated by the Clinton and Obama administrations and the relative indifference of the George W. Bush administration did not work, some American saber rattling is long overdue.
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What happens though if this does go wildly off track or if the summit never happens or if there&aposs more saber rattling from North Korea or South Korea does something and there is a continuing sort of chaos, does that then ultimately impact the way that voters not just see the president but ultimately the way that he is able to handle any other foreign policy or any other foreign policy crisis?
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Amy McGrath, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' Tensions between McConnell and Schumer run high as trial gains momentum No. 22020 GOP leader eyes Wednesday of next week for possible votes on witnesses MORE's (R) Democratic challenger in Kentucky's Senate race this year, authored a USA Today op-ed Tuesday urging Congress to revise the authorization for use of military force (AUMF) amid increased saber rattling with Iran.
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"Despite the progress that we made together in the aftermath of the Cold War, Russia's actions in recent years, its violations of Ukrainian and Georgian territorial integrity, its unprofessional behavior in the air, in space and in cyberspace, as well as its nuclear saber rattling, all have demonstrated that Russia has clear ambition to erode the principled international order that has served the United States, our allies and partners, the international community and in fact Russia itself, so well," Carter said.
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Nauert would be stepping into the role at a time of global upheaval: The U.S. and China are locked in a trade dispute that threatens to upend diplomatic relations; North Korea has been caught building out its missile bases as denuclearization talks with the U.S. have slowed; a revanchist Russia continues saber-rattling in Eastern Europe; and President Donald Trump has alienated military experts and many in his party with unexpected decisions to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and Afghanistan.
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The saber-rattling by Trump comes as the two sides continue talks on trade, and ahead of a weekend visit to China by Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossEx-counterintelligence official warns Trump administration not to be shortsighted on Huawei The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Hillicon Valley: Trump alleges Google manipulated voters against him | Hillary Clinton fires back | Twitter, Facebook take down misinformation targeting Hong Kong protests | Trump delays penalty on Huawei | Tech giants slam French digital tax at hearing MORE.
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In the lead up to Kim's 2018 New Year's speech, Pyongyang had tested its most advanced long-range missile to date and its most powerful nuclear bomb, after months of similar weapons tests and saber-rattling between North Korea and the US. Few would have predicted that the following year, Kim would meet Moon three times, leave his country for the first time since taking power in 2011 and become the first North Korean leader to sit face to face with a sitting US President.
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Recently, Russia has taunted the U.S. and its regional allies with a variety of provocations: A return to nuclear saber-rattling Military buildup and attack simulations across the Baltic NATO border A disregard for arms control, including the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaties Aggressive flybys of U.S. military vessels and consistent violations of Baltic airspace and sea lanes The Baltic states all stepped up their own commitments: each of the three will reach its defense spending target (2% of GDP) in 2018.
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There are already signs relations in the region are returning to their saber-rattling norm, with senior US officials briefing that the Trump administration is considering military action against North Korea if Pyongyang successfully builds a nuclear missile capable of hitting the US. Concerns about the Trump administration's policy towards Pyongyang were also raised this week with the departure of Joseph Yun, the top US State Department for North Korea, who was widely seen as a voice for diplomatic engagement in contrast to the increasingly hawkish National Security Council.
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But Mr. Tillerson's first appearance at a departmental press briefing in Washington this past week and his unusually restrained comments about North Korea — he assured the North "the security they seek" and offered a new chance at economic prosperity if it surrenders its nuclear weapons — had some speculating that he might welcome a meeting with Mr. Ri. On the other hand, Mr. Tillerson's comments were accompanied by increased saber rattling from Washington directed at the North, with the United States testing an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the Pacific and flying two strategic bombers over the Korean Peninsula.
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