(Despite domestic pressure to avoid confrontation, South Korea's President, Moon Jae-in, has accepted the installation of an American missile-defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD).
Next he wants liberal Muslims to take initiatives to outsmart the radicals: it is time for an "ideological confrontation", with South Asian Muslims learning tactics from moderate and liberal Muslims from farther East Malaysia and Indonesiaa.
Decades ago, the World Cup provided dramatic confrontations between South Americans' dazzling finesse and fancy footwork on the one hand and the discipline, speed and strength of Europe on the other.
After concluding investment agreements worth $5 billion with Malaysia and $28 billion with Indonesia and promising greatly expanded trade, Premiere Li even visited Vietnam, America's old enemy in the Vietnam War which lately has been looking to America's military might to aid in its confrontations over South China Sea territories.
There is a serious risk of miscalculation if, for example, there is a confrontation in the South China Sea.
It adds up to a huge challenge for Australia's captain, Michael Clarke, as he enters an intriguing confrontation with his South African counterpart, Smith.
With the succession issue and the rising internal and external pressures, it is not surprising that Mr. Kim would ratchet up confrontation with the South and its allies, said Mr. Cheon, the analyst.
JUST as South-East Asian countries were heaving a sigh of relief that China and the Philippines appeared to be drawing back from confrontation in the South China Sea, new tension has arisen between China and Vietnam in the same stretch of ocean.
Yet as its leaders met on May 10th and 11th for a summit in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, ASEAN's achievements seemed under threat on all fronts.The meeting was overshadowed by a confrontation in the South China Sea between Vietnam, an ASEAN member, and China.
It is important to imagine the impact this first journey had on Baldwin, the terror he felt and the dread, and the sense, too, that, no matter how freely he lived in Paris and New York, his destiny and the destiny of his country were being worked out in bitter confrontation in the South.
It has been described as the most serious Sino-US confrontation in the South China Sea since 2009.
