Sentence examples for defence arrangements from inspiring English sources

They concluded an agreement on transparency of arms purchases and co-ordination on defence arrangements.

Snapping this most basic pillar of the alliance's defence arrangements has outraged the new members from eastern Europe.

China will be wary that South Korea and Japan may now be encouraged to strengthen defence arrangements with the US.

Mr Abe argued that Japan's defence arrangements are out of date as North Korea develops a nuclear-tipped missile capability and China's military strength grows, challenging Japanese control of the Senkaku islands, which China claims as the Diaoyus.

France got its review of defence arrangements in 1996, but Britain got the treaty to say that these arrangements should be compatible with NATO.Spain's Felipe Gonzalez was happy with his deal on cohesion.

"No ally would wish to interrupt the integrated Nato defence arrangements in the North Sea and North Atlantic – least of all at a time of heightened tension with Russia.

Rather than disbanding our cold war defence arrangement, Nato, we reinvented it as an alliance that could be construed only as being arrayed against Russia.

The first is that the America-Philippines "reinforcement" of their defence arrangement has to be seen in the context of the much touted "pivot" of American strategy towards Asia.

Mr Hashimoto has no trouble convincing the Chinese who, as firm believers in the "cork-in-the-bottle" theory, much prefer to see Japan locked into a co-operative defence arrangement with America than left to go it militarily alone.

Cementing its defence arrangement with Taiwan, and holding large-scale naval war games in China's back yard in recent months, the US has buttressed its alliances with its East Asian allies.

His defence: the arrangement was all above board.