Japan and South Korea are at odds over an islet claimed by both, and China stoked anger with its increasingly assertive stance regarding its claims to resource-rich waters to the south and east.
Over all, China's steady strengthening of its military capabilities for conventional and nuclear warfare has long caused concern in Congress and among American allies in East Asia, particularly lately as China has taken a more assertive position regarding territorial claims in the East China and South China Seas.
Specifically, the BJP's interest in adopting a more assertive hedging strategy regarding China will give US officials a chance to engage closely with them.
Lawyers and others in China have been increasingly assertive in recent years regarding rights already promised under China's Constitution.
Preparing medical assistants to make assertive treatment decisions, particularly regarding referrals to larger centers, is a skill that is both necessary and critical to quality patient care.
Patients are also counseled about the possibility of physician resistance to assertive behaviors and coached regarding specific strategies for breaking through such resistance.
I need you to be socially reserved in the beginning but assertive in regards to lighting and moving things around.
"There was a sense at that point that an older woman really brought a lot to the equation," says Chris Thorne, a longtime porn reviewer at xCritic.com, regarding these women's assertive, confident sexual presences.
Although the facilitators to and barriers of assertive communication have been the subject of previous reviews, evidence regarding the effectiveness of interventions designed to enhance assertive communication is lacking.
They have become more assertive about what they regard as national sovereignty online, and have called on other countries to respect it.
The director Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, We Need to Talk About Kevin) cites a handful of occasions when a predominantly male crew would underestimate her because of her diminutive height and would call her "bitchy or bossy" where a male director would simply be regarded as assertive.
