"assertive claim" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a statement or declaration that is confident and forceful in expressing a belief or opinion. This phrase can be used in various contexts, such as persuasive essays, debates, or legal arguments. Example: The lawyer presented an assertive claim, stating that his client was innocent and providing strong evidence to support his argument.
The French, on the whole, make more assertive claims to a European identity.
Notably, the U.S. Navy recently conducted freedom-of-navigation exercises in the South China Sea, designed to push back against China's assertive claims there.
Beijing's assertive claims to maritime boundaries in the South China Sea have rattled America's regional partners and led Washington to deepen its security cooperation with Vietnam, the Philippines and other states whose territorial claims China disputes.
Mr. Ishihara's proposal was apparently an effort to criticize Japan's governing Democratic Party, which had sought closer ties with Beijing, for failing to take stronger action to defend against China's increasingly assertive claims to the islands.
The main goal of the Asian mission appeared to be coordinating a mutual response to China's increasingly assertive claims in regional waters, as well to the recent launching of a long-range rocket by North Korea.
OXFORD, England — At the same time that China has stated its desire for peace in Asia, the country has been making assertive claims over waters in the East and South China Seas.
The Japanese government has backed the deployment, apparently at least partly out of hopes that it will help deter China's recently assertive claims to those islands, which Japan controls.
There have been concerns that the hawkish Mr. Abe may provoke China by taking a firmer stand against that nation's increasingly assertive claims to disputed islands, known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyu in Chinese.
The sharpness stemmed from tensions over China's increasingly assertive claims in maritime disputes with other nations in the region, and it echoed a feeling shared by many in both countries that the United States and China are locked in a competition for dominance in the region and beyond.
The territorial debate over the islets, known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, is one of several simmering in Asia that some analysts fear could lead to hostilities, many of them tied to China's rise and its increasingly assertive claims to territory in the South China Sea.
