Sentence examples for assertive posture from inspiring English sources

Mr. Galbraith favored a more assertive posture.

However, "China notably took steps to ease relations with Japan and dampen suspicion among rival South China Sea claimants after China's assertive posture in 2010 increased regional tensions.

In certain significant ways, they dovetailed as well with the assertive posture taken by President Obama since taking office, like his expanded use of drones to kill terrorism suspects around the world — including a United States citizen.

China's increasingly vocal and assertive posture was a defining theme of the meeting, as was the candid American acknowledgment that the recovery of the United States — essential for global economic growth — requires outside help.

Mr. Obama's assertive posture may well have stopped the clamor of concern from supporters that had been weighing on his campaign with three weeks and one more debate to go before the election.

The country's lack of transparency about this, it says, is fuelling concern in the region about China's intentions, with some of its neighbours fearing that China's growing military and economic weight is "beginning to produce a more assertive posture, particularly in the maritime domain".

THE WORLDPOST: How should the U.S. and Japan deal with the rising tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea? FUNABASHI: It is imperative for the U.S. and Japan to strengthen deterrence against the background of China's more assertive posturing, particularly with respect to their territorial claims over the Senkaku Islands.

The report authors urge the Russian leadership to "urgently re-evaluate the costs and risks of continuing its more assertive military posture".

"We are seeing a very significant new phase in U.S. policy toward China," said Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a top China adviser in the Clinton administration, "a much more active, integrated, assertive U.S. posture in Asia than anyone expected six months ago".

It says that "the Russian leadership should urgently re-evaluate the costs and risks of continuing its more assertive military posture, and western diplomacy should be aimed at persuading Russia to move in this direction".

It will also open the door potentially to more active defence co-operation with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Australia and the Philippines - both of which have welcomed these changes, as they look anxiously at China's increasingly assertive maritime posture in the South and East China seas.