"In the hard-liner Chinese Communist view, so long as Tibetan unique cultural heritage and Tibetan Buddhist spirituality remain there, they see that as a source of threat of separation," he said.
The Kremlin has become such a source of "threat to the entire democratic world" that it should, Mr Poroshenko told a conference in Kiev, be stripped of its veto in the United Nations Security Council.
The literature demonstrates the sensitiveness of epiphytic lichens to forestry: forest management, and especially the shelterwood system, is a source of threat for many forest-dwelling lichens.
In particular, when individuals perceive that the threatening situation has been brought under control, fear is likely to convert to anger which then motivates attacks against outsiders or others perceived to be a source of threat [13], [36].
Wearables also can become a source of threat to your privacy, as hackers can use the motion sensors embedded in smartwatches to steal information you're typing, or they can gather health data from smartwatch apps or health tracker devices you might be using.
Yet China is simultaneously a source of threat.
The same characteristics that make social media attractive to criminals and terrorist organizations also make it a useful tool for governments as a source of threat analysis and management, much to the concern of privacy advocates.
Backing up the general's remarks, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un then told the nation: "Gone forever is the era when the United States blackmailed us with nukes; now the United States is no longer a source of threat and fear for us, and we are the very source of fear for it".
And for many children and their families in South Sudan, internal conflict has also been a source of threat.
The third predictor of fathers' PTSS level at Time 2 was the child's functional status at Time 1, suggesting that the child's impairment in physical functioning and daily life activities may represent a source of threat for the father.
